Republicans retained their majority on Ohio's top court and are leading in a race to unseat a sitting Democratic justice on North Carolina's following an election cycle in which Democrats had hoped the issue of abortion access would help liberal candidates secure seats on state supreme courts nationwide.

The winners in all three races received more than 55% of the vote. Republicans have held a majority on the seven-member Ohio Supreme Court since 1986. In the past two election cycles, a new law required party labels for candidates for supreme court and appellate courts. Republicans swept the supreme court races in 2022 and this year.

Three Republican justices will retain their seats on the all-GOP Texas Supreme Court, according to unofficial election results. The Associated Press called the races for Justices Jimmy Blacklock and Jane Bland shortly after midnight while Devine's race was called Wednesday morning,