Seven Democratic gains in governorships

-Source-The Atlantic- Scott Walkers eight-year run as the union-busting conservative governor of Wisconsin ended on Tuesday night and Kansas voters rejected Kris Kobachs bid to take his hard-right views on immigration and voter fraud to the most powerful perch in Topeka. In Maine voters replaced the combative and uncompromising conservative Paul LePage with a Democratic woman Janet Mills running on a message of collaboration. In all Democrats on Tuesday captured seven governorships held by Republicans for the past four or eight years reversing a swell that had given the GOP a record 70 percent of the nations executive mansions as recently as 2016. The Democrat J. B. Pritzker ousted Republican Governor Bruce Rauner in Illinois and Democrats won open seats in Michigan New Mexico and Nevada They now hold 23 of the nations 50 governorships with Republicans likely to control the remaining 27 once all races are called. Democrats also flipped six state legislative chambers and gained hundreds of seats.