Virginia is the only state in which either major party ever chooses gubernatorial or U.S. Senate nominees by convention, and in recent decades only the Republican Party has chosen to use conventions. In this Vox article, senior politics correspondent Andrew Prokop suggests that the Virginia Republican Party was wise to have used a convention in 2021 for its gubernatorial nominee selection process. He says someone chosen in a Virginia Republican primary (which would have been an open primary) probably would have been a less effective nominee. Thanks to FairVote for the link. The Republican convention used ranked choice voting.

The New York Times has this link to the New Jersey gubernatorial race, although the party labels are incorrect. The New Jersey ballots correctly label Hoffman as the Green Party nominee, Mele as the Libertarian nominee, and Kuniansky as the Socialist Workers Party nominee. But the New York Times has them all labelled “independent.” UPDATE: the newspaper has corrected its website and now shows the party labels.

The Virginia State Board of Elections website has unofficial election returns, which of course are changing constantly. See here.