Exit polls showed an unmistakable anti-Trump backlash as turnout exceeded expectations. In Virginia, most dramatically, those who hoped Democrat Ralph Northam would be able to eke out a victory in the neck-and-neck gubernatorial race were pleasantly surprised by his comfortable 9-percentage-point victory over Republican Ed Gillespie, along with enough victorious Democrats to bring the party within shouting distance of a majority in the state’s Republican-dominated House of Delegates.