Election Day victories cheered

A look at election victories on Nov. 7

• Unseating anti-LGBTQ Delegate Bob Marshall, Danica Roem's electoral victory will make her Virginia's first out transgender public official and the nation's only out transgender state representative.

• Andrea Jenkins won her race for the Minneapolis City Council, becoming the first openly transgender black person elected to a council seat in a major U.S. city. Read more about Jenkins at The Minneapolis Star Tribune.

• Jenny Durkan will become the first openly lesbian mayor of Seattle, becoming just one of two current major city mayors who are lesbian.

She became the first out LGBTQ U.S. Attorney when appointed the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington.

More from The Seattle Times.

• Tyler Titus was elected to the Erie School Board, making him the first openly transgender person elected official in Pennsylvania.

More from Penn Live.

The Victory Fund has a roundup of 61 races nationwide in which LGBTQ candidates competed, and is updating results here.

• HRC-endorsed Phil Murphy, who made advancing LGBTQ equality a key part of his vision for the future of New Jersey, won that state’s gubernatorial race.

“His commitment to equality makes him a model for elected officials nationwide,” said JoDee Winterhof, HRC senior vice president for Policy and Political Affairs. More from HRC.

• Vi Lyles won the mayor’s race in Charlotte, North Carolina and pro-equality candidates swept their council races.

• Manka Dhingra won her special election to the Washington State Senate, flipping the Washington State Senate to Democratic control. More from HuffPost.