The Puerto Rico ballot measure for statehood won with 52%. Of course, it is up to Congress to decide whether to admit Puerto Rico.
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Here is a link to the California Assembly election results. In the 42nd district, independent Chad Mayes is leading with 58.2% of the vote against his Republican opponent, Andrew Kotyuk. Mayes had been re-elected in 2018 as a Republican, but then in 2019 he had switched his registration to independent. This is the first election in which someone other than a Republican or a Democrat has been elected to a partisan California office since 1999, when Green Party nominee Audie Bock was elected.
Here is a link to incomplete election returns for Alaska. Measure 2, which would have created a top-four system in which ranked choice voting would be used in November (but not in the primary) appears to have lost. With 360 out of 441 precincts reporting, it has 43.2%.
The measure would have made it more difficult for parties to obtain or keep qualified status. Because parties would no longer have nominees for any partisan office except president, the vote test for parties wouldn’t exist any more. Instead the only method for parties to qualify would have been to have registered members equal to 3% of the last vote cast. Only the Alaskan Independence Party meets that standard.
Massachusetts voters have rejected an initiative to use ranked choice voting in federal and state elections, by a vote of 55%-45%. See the results here.
Preston Nelson, Libertarian nominee for U.S. House in the Illinois 8th district, polled 29.1% in a two-way race against a Democrat. See the returns for all the Illinois U.S. House races here.
This is the highest percentage for a candidate for U.S. House in Illinois who was not the nominee of the Democratic or Republican Parties since 1914, when Progressive Party nominee Ira Copley was elected with 40.8% of the vote.
The 8th district is in the Chicago suburbs.