Election 2010

San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris will be California’s next Attorney General, after her Republican opponent conceded on Wednesday — a full three weeks after the Nov. 2 election.

As the Republican leadership meets to plan the impending transfer of political power in the U. S. House of Representatives coupled with the marginal difference of seats held in the Senate by both parties, it becomes obvious to most Washington observers that the 112th Congress will be frictional, adversarial, and hardly bi-partisan.

Neil Abercrombie has been elected Hawaii’s next governor, becoming the first Democrat to hold the seat in eight years, clearing the way for same-sex civil unions to become state law next year.

Opponents of LGBT rights are celebrating the unprecedented ouster of three Iowa Supreme Court justices who helped legalize same-sex marriage in the state last year, but House Majority Leader Mike Gronstal (D) is pledging to block any attempt to pass a constitutional amendment which would ban gay marriage.

California’s Alameda County has been elected its first transgender Superior Court Judge. Victoria Kolakowski, 49, defeated her opponent, Deputy District Attorney John Creighton, in a narrow win in what had been a hotly contested race.

An exit poll on Tuesday announced that roughly 30% of gay voters are now voting Republican. Wait…. WHAT? It seems more and more gay voters are more concerned about other issues than they are about their own civil rights.

Following is a state-by-state overview of key election results of LGBT candidates, and races of interest among the LGBT community. Overall, Republicans have gained control of the U.S. ouse of Representatives, and Democrats have retained control of the U.S. Senate.

New York’s Tea Party-Republican candidate for governor, Carl Paladino is now trying to use gay rights against Andrew Cuomo, claiming his Democrat opponent was “all but invisible” when same-sex marriage was being discussed in the state legislature last year.

The national debate over bullying entered the Minnesota governor’s race Saturday during a televised debate in which Republican candidate Tom Emmer said that he would oppose legislation to combat school bullying against gay and lesbian young people.

Carl Paladino, the Republican candidate for governor of New York, is under siege by both conservatives and Democrats for saying that he did not want his children “brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality” was an acceptable option.