2025 Election Results from the Front Lines

We Stand Together supports Democratic County Committees in swing states and Congressional Districts. These hardworking volunteer groups receive virtually no funding from either the Democratic Party or organizations like Swing Left, so we are stepping in to fill this gap. Yesterday we wrote to the Chairs of the four committees we are now working with to ask about election results in their counties. Here are their replies, which we think provide a helpfully granular description of the kinds of essential work these committees perform, all year long, every year:

Nash County, North Carolina

“Nash had a few contests with Dem candidates. We had a runoff for a city council seat but that was between two Dems. We have one new Dem mayor for one precinct. All but one Dem incumbent returned. The one who lost did so by one vote. Our turnout percentage overall was low, 13.85%, but we only had 11 precincts with contests. 

Our big fight was the redistricting of our congressional district 1.  In particular, Republicans added six counties and took out four counties. One of the six is large with more Republicans to counteract my county of Nash with more Democrats. Their goal is to get rid of our Black Democratic Congressman Don Davis so our fight is before us! We really need your funding assistance because this has made national news!”

-       Dr. Cassandra Conover, Chair

Beaver County, Pennsylvania

“We're all exhausted but in the best way! Statewide, Democrats swept in PA - We retained all 5 judges that were up for retention- 3 Supreme Court Justices, 1 Commonwealth Court Judge, and 1 Superior Court judge. All Democrats! We also retained our Beaver County Judge of Orphan Courts - the only countywide race this year. In all 6 cases judicial races, then, Beaver County voted to retain Democrat judges. This is amazing because winning county-wide in this pretty “red” area has been historically very difficult (though not impossible)!

At the local level, we also won our biggest local race for magistrate in a reddish purple (call it magenta) district, thanks to the hard work of our volunteers. All in all, a VERY good night for us as we prepare for next year's all important midterms.

Ps. Forgot to add (not enough coffee in the world today!) that while Brandon Neuman and Stella Tsai  (both statewide judicial candidates) narrowly lost in Beaver County, the fact that we were able to hold the margins that close helped propel them to victory statewide. So often people forget that the role of the rural Democrats is very often to stem the bleeding enough to keep those margins close enough for the more traditionally blue parts of the state to be able to make up the difference. It's not always flashy or sexy, but we get the job done and we sure did last night!” 

- Erin Gabriel, Chair

Cabarrus County, North Carolina

"Our municipals are non-partisan; of the 9 candidates we endorsed 5 were elected. The first African American elected in Midland, the first Hispanic elected to the city council in Concord, and the election of a second African American woman to the town council in Harrisburg.The elections in VA, NJ, and PA were the icing on the cake."

    - Rosa Culver-Sims, Chair

Granville County, North Carolina

“Oh my goodness! Yesterday Granville had some major wins. Here are the highlights:

• We endorsed candidates in 12 of 14 races in Granville, and TEN of those candidates won their races! 

• We flipped Creedmoor's mayorship and elected a 43yo Black man named Antwane Downey, and flipped a city commission seat there as well.

• We held 3 of 4 city commission seats in Oxford AND the left-of-center unaffiliated mayor here, Guillermo Nurse, first Afro Latino mayor in the state, not only won reelection, but he called me two nights ago to tell me our work is the reason he's decided to change his affiliation to Dem!

• We increased turnout from 18.58% in 2023 to over 26%!

• We elected the youngest Black woman ever to Stovall's town commission, 32yo Phylicia Barker, a local farmer.

• Our three largest municipalities in Granville now have Dem mayors!

• Ultimately, we defended 6 seats and flipped 4.”

  - Liz Purvis, Chair