CONNECTICUT, 2ND DISTRICT: Democrat Joe Courtney led GOP Rep. Rob Simmons by just 166 votes. A recount is to be completed by Wednesday.

GEORGIA, 12TH DISTRICT: First-term Democratic Rep. John Barrow, in a rematch against Republican former Rep. Max Burns, led by fewer than 600 votes. There will be an automatic recount unless the margin widens significantly before the results are certified next week.

NEW MEXICO, 1ST DISTRICT: Republican Rep. Heather Wilson led Democrat Patricia Madrid by about 1,600 votes. About 4,400 ballots remained to be tallied.

NORTH CAROLINA, 8TH DISTRICT: Rep. Robin Hayes, a Republican, had a 449-vote lead over Democrat Larry Kissell. About 1,500 provisional ballots remain to be counted.

OHIO, 2ND DISTRICT: Rep. Jean Schmidt, a Republican who called decorated Vietnam veteran Rep. John Murtha a coward, was ahead of Democrat Victoria Wulsin by 2,862 votes. Counting provisional and absentee ballots could take nearly two weeks.

OHIO, 15TH DISTRICT: Rep. Deborah Pryce, a member of the House Republican leadership, leads Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy by 3,536 votes. Thousands of provisional ballots will be counted beginning Nov. 19 -- a day later than normal in deference to the much-vaunted Ohio State-Michigan football game Nov. 18.

WASHINGTON, 8TH DISTRICT: GOP Rep. Dave Reichert led Democrat Darcy Burner by about 3,100 votes, but many ballots remained to be counted.

WYOMING, 1ST DISTRICT: Republican Rep. Barbara Cubin, accused by her Libertarian opponent, who uses a wheelchair, of threatening to slap him, led Democrat Gary Trauner by fewer than a thousand votes. The Libertarian, Thomas Rankin, got less than 4 percent of the vote.

In addition, two runoff elections are planned. Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., the subject of an FBI bribery investigation, will face fellow Democrat Karen Carter on Dec. 9, and Rep. Henry Bonilla, R-Texas, will face Democratic former Rep. Ciro Rodriguez.

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