Tracking the races

Jewish incumbents in the Senate running for re-election

• Michael Bennett (D-Colo.): The child of a Holocaust survivor, appointed to the Senate after President Obama named incumbent Ken Salazar Interior Secretary. He is projected to win against Tea Party-backed Ken Buck.
• Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.): Projected to win against Republican Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard. 
• Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.): Concedes to plastics billionaire Ron Johnson.
• Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.): Wins in a rout.
• Ron Wyden (D-Ore.): Easily re-elected.

Jewish incumbents in the House facing a tough re-election fight

• John Adler (D-N.J.): A veteran state pol who picked up this GOP-leaning district in the Obama wave of 2008. He has conceded.
• Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.): Won a leans-GOP seat, in the Tucson area, in the 2006 Democratic sweep. In this election, distanced herself from Obama on immigration issues. Projected to win.
• Alan Grayson (D-Fla.): A liberal favorite and conservative bogeyman for his harsh attacks against Republicans. Loses in a rout to a Tea Party candidate, Daniel Webster.
• Steve Kagen (D-Wisc.): A physician who picked up a leans-GOP seat in the 2006 Democratic sweep. Loses. 
• Ron Klein (D-Fla.): Fought a bitter rematch against Allen West, an Iraq War vet whom he defeated in 2008. Loses.

Jews challenging for a Senate or House seat

• Dick Blumenthal: Connecticut’s long-time attorney general is declared winner in Connecticut, preserving the seat for Democrats.
• Paul Hodes (D-N.H.): Gave up his seat to run for Senate, but loses to the Republican, state Attorney General Kelly Ayotte.
• Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher (D) has conceded his bid to win Ohio’s open U.S. Senate seat.
• Randy Altschuler hoped to become the second Republican Jew in the House (after GOP whip Eric Cantor), challenging Rep. Tim Bishop’ (D-N.Y.) in his Long Island district. Altschuler lost.
• Nan Hayworth, a physician in upstate New York, defeated Rep. John Hall (D-N.Y.) in a district that had traditionally leaned GOP. She was born and raised Lutheran, but is married to a Jew and has told friends she is a "Jew by choice."
• David Cicilline, the mayor of Providence, R.I., wins the seat vacated by Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.). His mother is Jewish and he identifies as Jewish. He is the first openly gay mayor of a state capital.

Jews in other races

• Steve Grossman: Former AIPAC president and Democratic Party chairman wins in his race for Massachusetts state treasurer.
• Josh Mandel: Republican state legislator, Orthodox Jew and Iraq War veteran wins in his race for Ohio state treasurer.
• Sam Olens, a Republican, was elected attorney general in Georgia.

Other races of Jewish interest

• Pa. Senate: U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, who who defeated incumbent Arlen Specter in the Democratic primary, narrowly lost to former Republican congressman Pat Toomey. The race became a proxy fight between J Street (which backed Sestak) and its critics.
• Ill. Senate: U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), a moderate congressman from suburban Chicago who drew much Jewish interest for his House leadership on pro-Israel issues, won against Alex Giannoulias (D.)

Things and people to watch:

• With Republicans taking the House, U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) — the lone Jewish Republican in Congress — is exected to become majority leader.

Jewish House members expected to be re-elected

• Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.)
• Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.)
• Howard Berman (D-Calif.)
• Eric Cantor (R-Va.)
• Stephen Cohen (D-Tenn.)
• Susan Davis (D-Calif.)
• Ted Deutch (D-Fla.)
• Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.)
• Bob Filner (D-Calif.)
• Barney Frank (D-Mass.)
• Jane Harman (D-Calif.)
• Steve Israel (D-N.Y.)
• Sander Levin (D-Mich.)
• Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.)
• Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)
• Jared Polis (D-Colo.)
• Steve Rothman (D-N.J.)
• Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)
• Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.)
• Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)
• Brad Sherman (D-Calif.)
• Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)
• Henry Waxman (D-Calif.)
• Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)
• John Yarmuth (D-Ky.)