Working Families Party candidates won in the places pundits and corporate Democrats called unwinnable, despite being outspent by millions at every turn. Votes are still being counted, but we can safely say that the Working Families Party will send at least 16 new WFP members of Congress and two senators to Washington, DC next year. Downballot, we elected over a hundred new state legislators, including 38 legislators who flipped Republican-held districts. We were also part of flipping chambers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and Wisconsin.

Voters delivered a sharp rebuke to MAGA. Across the country, the winning message for Democrats was the Working Families Party’s agenda: lowering the cost of living, ending corporate corruption, taxing the billionaire class, pausing data centers, and ending foreign wars. Our populist agenda became their closing argument. 

• Abdul El-Sayed defied the pundits and will be Michigan’s next U.S. Senator, despite nearly $350 million in outside spending, Islamophobic attacks, and a last-minute sabotage attempt from the primary loser.
• Autoshop owner and WFP member Randy Villegas leads in the Central Valley in one of the largest overperformances in the entire country. 
• Will Lawrence won in the most expensive House race in the country, defeating a rising star in the Republican Party. 
• Firefighter and union leader Bob Brooks won in the Lehigh Valley by a bigger margin than any other swing district in the state. 
• Brian Poindexter ousted a Trump aide and real estate heir, winning a Trump +11 district by 10 points. 

These WFP battleground champions come on top of seven wins against the Democratic establishment in safer seats by WFP leaders, including NJ WFP’s former State Director Analilia Mejia, former New York City Comptroller and long-time WFP leader Brad Lander, and Chris Rabb, who was one of the PA WFP’s first class of state legislators.

We won every general election battleground race. And in some very tough red districts, especially in the South, we made it closer than anyone imagined we could—with very little support from the Democratic Party.

In Florida, WFP state legislator Angie Nixon came within three points in a race the Democratic establishment wrote off, after a primary everyone said she couldn’t win. Right now, Justin J. Pearson is running 20 points ahead of Kamala Harris’s 2024 vote share in his district. The WFP is showing that it’s the party with the vision and the plan to defeat MAGA in the South. 

New WFP House and Senate Members: Abdul El-Sayed (MI-Sen), Troy Jackson (ME-Senate), Aisha Wahab (CA-14), Randy Villegas (CA-22), Angela Gonzales -Torres (CA-34), Melat Kiros (CO-01), Robert White (DC-at-large), William Lawrence (MI-07), Donovan McKinney (MI-13), Analilia Mejia (NJ-11), Adam Hamawy (NJ-12), Claire Valdez (NY-07), Brad Lander (NY-10), Darializa Avila Chevalier (NY-13), Cait Conley (NY-17), Brian Poindexter (OH-07), Chris Rabb (PA-03), Bob Brooks (PA-07). 

STATE AND MUNICIPAL RACES

Our party’s power has always come from the bottom up, so we’re thrilled to elect more than a hundred new WFP state legislators across the country. WFP candidates helped to flip legislative chambers in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin, securing Democratic trifectas. A near-majority of Delaware’s Democratic caucus have now been elected by the Working Families Party. Former California WFP State Director Jane Kim is leading with 3.4 million votes (and counting) in her statewide run for insurance commissioner.

Across the country, WFP state legislative candidates won in tough districts with populist messages, from Dan Bukiewicz, who ousted a Republican Assemblymember in Wisconsin to Jamie Churches who flipped a seat in a suburban Detroit district, to Chelsea Dimas who won a Washington House seat in a long-time Republican stronghold.

Nithya Raman, a WFP-endorsed Los Angeles mayoral candidate, takes the reins in the nation’s second-largest city. New mayor David Morales and a majority WFP-aligned City Council takes office in Providence, RI. And Janeese Lewis George is going to fight for working-class Washingtonians in DC alongside a new cadre of WFP council members. 

In New York, more than 360,000 people voted for Governor Kathy Hochul on the Working Families Party ballot line, putting us on track to displace the Conservative Party and move to Row C on the ballot. The New York party is also poised to send its largest ever delegation to Albany to fight for working people.

In Georgia, WFP candidates now hold a 3-2 majority on the state’s Public Service Commission, the rate-setting agency’s governing board. In Arizona, WFP candidates are on track to win two seats on the five-member Commission overseeing utility rates in the state. 

But our goal isn’t just to win elections; it’s to pass policies that make people’s lives better. Tuesday’s wins are an opportunity for Democrats to win back the working-class voters they lost and build a majority that survives into 2028 and beyond. But Democratic leaders will be judged on whether or not they deliver on their promises to make life more affordable, take on corporations and the billionaire class, and stop Big Tech from running roughshod over our communities. 

We have been handed the power; now we must use it.