Democrats won control of the US Senate, reaching 51 seats after major victories in Texas, Iowa, Kansas and South Carolina. They also flipped Ohio, where Sherrod Brown reclaimed a seat, and won contests in North Carolina and Georgia, while holding seats in New Hampshire and Virginia. Several outcomes were historic: James Talarico’s Texas victory marked a major upset, Annie Andrews won South Carolina’s Senate race, and Peggy Flanagan became the first Native American woman elected to the Senate. In Mississippi, Democrat Scott Colom held a lead of just 28 votes over Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith with 97% counted, leaving the result unresolved.
Democrats were also edging toward control of the House, with a series of gains in competitive districts, including seats in Pennsylvania, Iowa, Virginia, New Jersey and Kentucky. House results remained incomplete, but the scale of the party’s gains pointed to a broad rejection of Donald Trump’s agenda. Democrats also won governorships in Texas, Georgia, Iowa, Ohio, New Mexico and Wisconsin, with Gina Hinojosa becoming Texas’s first Latina governor and David Crowley Wisconsin’s first Black governor. Trump said he would accept the results and attributed Republican losses to his absence from the ballot. Exit polling identified the economy and the state of democracy as voters’ leading concerns.
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