Midterm election results in full: Live maps with Mississippi Senate race too close to call

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Democrats have taken control of the House and the Senate in a blow to Donald Trump

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Democrats are set to take control of both chambers of Congress after a string of historic victories against Republican candidates in midterm elections across the country.

The shifting balance of power is expected to significantly influence Donald Trump’s final years in the White House as his political opponents mount investigations into his administration and derail his legislative priorities when the new Congress enters office in January.

All 435 seats in the House of Representatives were up for election, along with 35 seats in the 100-member Senate.

With the majority of preliminary results declared, Democrats are expected to hold at least 54 seats in the Senate after a series of victories in former Republican strongholds, including Texas, Kansas, South Carolina, Ohio, Maine and Iowa.

Democrats will also regain control of the House of Representatives, which they last held in 2023, having flipped numerous seats in states including Kentucky, New Jersey, Indiana and North Carolina — a major blow to the president’s command for GOP-controlled states to implement new voting maps that were designed to give them better odds in midterms. That effort largely failed.

As results came in, Trump told Fox News that he thought the Democrats “did a good job.”

“They fought hard. They were, you know, they've been fighting for a long time. They’ve been fighting me for a long time,” he said.

The 2026 midterm elections have been seen as a referendum on Trump’s second presidency, with Democratic candidates blaming the administration for the growing cost of living crisis and economic fallout from the Iran war, among other issues that drove voters to the polls in record numbers.

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