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An upset in Alabama.

• For once, Doug Jones said, Alabama declined to take “the wrong fork” at a political crossroads. The former prosecutor defeated Roy Moore in a special election on Tuesday, an almost-unimagined victory for Democrats that shaves Republicans’ Senate majority to a single seat.

Here are the full results, and four takeaways from the election, including robust turnout by black voters. There were over 22,000 write-in votes, more than the margin of victory.

Mr. Jones’s win could complicate the Republicans’ legislative agenda in Washington. It also amounts to a snub of President Trump, who had broken with most of his party and embraced the scandal-scarred Mr. Moore.