Voters filled the whole House, 35 Senate seats, and 36 governorships. Here is what they decided for Congress, how your own state voted seat by seat, and how a count becomes an official result.
Democrats 257, Republicans 170, 8 undecided. 218 seats make a majority.
53 Democrats plus 2 independents who caucus with them, to 44 Republicans, 1 undecided. 51 make a majority.
46 in the House and 8 in the Senate.
108 in the House and 18 in the Senate take office on January 3, 2027.
9 seats have no projected winner yet and are left out of the counts above. See which races are still open →
Pick a state to see who won its Senate and House races, which seats changed hands, whom each new member replaces, and anything still being counted.
The members elected on November 3 take office on January 3, 2027, when the 120th Congress convenes. Until then the 119th keeps its full powers. The House is projected at 257 D · 170 R · 8 undecided and the Senate at 53 D · 44 R · 2 I · 1 undecided.
Mail ballots that arrive within a state's deadline, provisional ballots, and military and overseas ballots are all counted after polls close. A total that moves in the days after an election is the count finishing, not the count changing.
News organizations call a race when the votes left to count cannot change the outcome. It is a judgment about arithmetic, made by a newsroom, and it carries no legal weight.
Local officials canvass the count, checking it against the number of voters who signed in, then the state certifies. Deadlines are set by each state's law and mostly fall in late November and early December.
Many states recount automatically inside a set margin. A few require a majority to win and hold a runoff between the top two when nobody reaches it.
Written before the election, and kept as it ran: the case for voting in a midterm, with the official record behind every number.
All 435 House seats are on the ballot in 2026, as they are every second year, along with the 33 Class II Senate seats whose terms end on January 3, 2027. Whichever party wins those chambers controls what gets a vote, what gets investigated, and what reaches the president's desk for the final two years of the term.
In the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey, 52.2% of citizens of voting age reported voting in 2022 and 53.4% in 2018, against 66.8% in 2020 and 65.3% in 2024. A smaller electorate means each ballot carries more weight, and close races get decided by the people who show up.
Control of the House turns on a handful of districts. In the Clerk of the House's official 2024 tally, California's 13th District was decided by 187 votes out of more than 200,000 cast, and Iowa's 1st by fewer than a thousand.
36 governorships and most state legislatures are on the ballot. Those offices run elections, draw the next set of maps, and decide policy that reaches you faster than anything federal: schools, roads, courts, taxes.