Utah special House election
Provo Mayor John Curtis, a Republican, is the favorite to win Utah's special election to fill the House seat left open by former Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who resigned from office in June.
Curtis, a former businessman who has largely avoided discussing Trump during his campaign, is being challenged by Democrat Kathie Allen, a physician who is polling ahead of Curtis only in liberal-leaning Salt Lake County.
Chaffetz, the former chairman of the House oversight committee and now a Fox News contributor and fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics, easily won the district for five consecutive terms.
While Allen slightly out-fundraised and out-spent Curtis in the special election campaign, Curtis is favored to easily win the seat, which hasn't been held by a Democrat since 1994.
New York City mayoral election
Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio will face off on Tuesday against Republican Staten Island Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis and Bo Dietl, a former police detective running as an independent.
De Blasio, first elected in 2013, has campaigned on his most significant first-term achievements, which include universal free pre-K for 4-year-olds and creating or preserving thousands of affordable housing units.
Malliotakis has strongly criticized de Blasio's approach to rising homelessness and campaigned on tighter restrictions on immigrants, including stripping New York City of its sanctuary city status and denying undocumented immigrants financial aid for state colleges.
De Blasio is expected to win by a wide margin, but it is unclear what percentage of New York City voters will show up to the polls. In this year's primary, just 14% of the city's 4.5 million registered voters cast their ballots.
New Jersey governor's election
New Jersey voters will elect a new governor on Tuesday in a race to replace outgoing Gov. Chris Christie, whose approval ratings have sunk into the teens, making him the most unpopular governor in the country in two decades.
Democrat Phil Murphy, a former Wall Street banker and ambassador to Germany under former President Barack Obama, is leading the race against the state's Lieutenant Gov. Kim Guadagno. Murphy's campaign has worked hard to tie Guadagno to Christie, while the governor's deputy has attempted to keep her distance from her unpopular boss.
Democrats are in a good position to retake control of the solidly blue state, which has been in Republican hands for the last eight years.
Virginia governor's election
Virginia will hold its highly anticipated election to replace Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Tuesday. The race has turned into a bitter feud, with Republican Ed Gillespie accusing his Democratic opponent Ralph Northam of supporting gun rights for pedophiles, while Northam has labeled Gillespie a white supremacist.
McAuliffe hand-picked Northam, a physician and his lieutenant governor, to run against Gillespie, the former Republican National Committee Chairman, whom the governor recently accused of running "the most hateful, racist, bigoted campaign" he'd ever seen.
In a controversial statement, President Donald Trump tweeted his support for Gillespie last month, writing that he hopes the Republican will "save our great statues/heritage," referring to Virginia's Confederate statues, which were at the center of a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August.
Source: Business Insider India