The midterms nudged the diversity needle

So far, Quartz noted, the elections have led to:

• More than 100 women in the House

• The first Muslim women in Congress

• The first Native American women in Congress

• The youngest women in Congress

• The first openly gay person elected as governor

But Bloomberg argues that such records are important only if the new officials can stay long enough to effect real change.

Few signs of significant election interference

For now, election officials and social media companies are breathing a sigh of relief.

At a news conference yesterday, Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, said there was “no indication of compromise to our nation’s election infrastructure that would prevent voting, change vote counts or distrust the ability to tally votes.”

Facebook said that it had shut down more accounts that it believed were spreading misinformation. It also said it had acted against some inaccurate voting information. (Accounts shut down on Monday are said to have been linked to a Kremlin-backed group of internet trolls.) But in general, the day bore no huge drama: “We haven’t seen anything unexpected,” a Facebook representative told the BBC.

But reports of meddling could yet come to light. “I remain convinced that the real action will be after the election when we start to see the voter fraud, hacking claims start to roll in,” Bret Schafer of the Alliance for Securing Democracy told the BBC.

More: How Amazon might make a push into securing elections.