The Associated Press surveys the numbers posted by local election officials and projects the winner using vote returns and other data. Races can be called within minutes of polls closing on election night. However, if a race has tight margins or an expected high volume of mail-in ballots, it can take longer to call.

Wednesday at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, teams of Republicans and Democrats continued the process of going over each of the roughly 14,200 provisionals cast in the election.