2026 midterm election results, Digi Mart USA News: Democrats continued to celebrate what the publisher describes as one of the most lopsided midterm election victories in modern U.S. history, routing their Republican rivals to gain control of the U.S.
House, U.S. Senate and statehouses across the country.
In the Senate, Democrats flipped seven seats and now hold 54 to the Republican Party’s 44. Two seats, in nail-biting contests in Alaska and Mississippi, remain undeclared.
Democrats won a series of key battleground contests. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed defeated Mike Rogers in one of the most closely watched races of the midterms.
James Talarico beat Republican Ken Paxton in Texas, becoming the first Democrat to win a U.S. Senate seat in the Lone Star State since 1988.
Annie Andrews beat Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina to flip a Senate seat.
In Maine, Democrat Troy Jackson defeated incumbent Sen. Susan Collins, ending her three-decade tenure.
Sen. Jon Ossoff comfortably won reelection in Georgia.
Other Senate seats flipped to the Democratic Party included Roy Cooper in North Carolina, Sherrod Brown in Ohio, Josh Turek in Iowa and Adam Hamilton in Kansas.
In the House, Democrats held 253 seats to the GOP’s 157 as of 2:30 a.m. ET Friday, comfortably passing the majority threshold of 218, with 25 races still to be called.
The latest estimates show the party is on track to win its largest majority since 2008. Colorado’s Fourth District, held by Republican incumbent Rep.
Lauren Boebert, a staunch Trump ally, remains tight against Democrat Eileen Laubacher.
There were also 36 gubernatorial races, mayoral contests and numerous ballot measures, with several firsts. Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms of Georgia became the first Black woman elected governor in U.S.
history, while Democrat Amy Acton became the first woman elected governor of Ohio. In Florida, Republican Byron Donalds became the state’s first Black governor-elect.
El-Sayed will be America’s first Muslim senator.
At the White House, President Trump signaled he would work with Democrats during his remaining two years in office but said he would not hesitate to use his veto power. He acknowledged Wednesday that the Iran war contributed to Republican losses but defended his decision to pursue the conflict.
“If I had to do it again, I’d have to do it again,” he said, adding: “You can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon.”
Vice President JD Vance had earlier blamed the scale of GOP losses on the war with Iran. “The real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone,” he wrote in a post on X.
“The reason we lost is the war.”
