Ian Millhiser, a Senior Policy Analyst for the Center for American Progress, says that based on preliminary election returns, approximately 500,000 more voters cast a vote for a Democrat than for a Republican, for U.S. House, in this year’s election. But, of course, Republicans won more seats. Millhiser says that gerrymandering is responsible for the Republican House majority. See here.

Millhiser says he omitted all races in which one of the major party candidates didn’t run anyone. That is almost one-eighth of the seats, so that may represent a flaw in Millhiser’s approach. Millhiser does not seem to have added up the U.S. House vote for candidates other than Republicans or Democrats, but it is clear already that neither major party polled a majority of the U.S. House vote. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link.

On November 6, Pat Noble, who is 19 years old, was elected to the Red Bank Regional High School Board of Education. The high school is in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Noble defeated an incumbent, Nilsa Samol, by a margin of 53.6% to 46.4%. The high school is over a century old and is considered one of the state’s best high schools; see the wikipedia page about the school here.

Noble has been the Secretary of the New Jersey Socialist Party for several years.

On November 6, two incumbent members of the Ohio Supreme Court were ousted. One of the two winners is William O’Neill, who had run twice before but had never before won. He always refuses to accept campaign contributions. He has been an Appellate Court judge in the past, and in addition he works as a registered nurse in a pediatric emergency department. He is a proponent of public funding for candidates for State Supreme Court Justice. See this story.

Ohio has partisan elections for State Supreme Court Justice, although ballot labels are absent for that office on the general election ballot. O’Neill is a Democratic nominee.