Democrats Win Majority in House and Senate
This article is published in collaboration with Statista
by Katharina Buchholz
According to preliminary results, the Democrats regained control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in yesterday's midterm elections. The party picked up at least 25 seats in the House and seven in the Senate, many in districts that voted for Trump in 2024 and in states considered Republican strongholds.
Multiple House district pickups for Democrats happened in California (after Democratic redistricting), Iowa, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas and Wisconsin. Two Texas districts that were redrawn last year flipped for Democrats, while a handful more in Texas and Florida remained Democratic despite less favorable district boundaries. In California, where Democrats redistricted in their favor, three seats were picked up so far, with one more expected. In the Senate, junior Senators will hail from Texas for the first time in more than 30 years and Kansas for the first time in almost 90 years. Democrats also picked up one Senate seat each in Maine, South Carolina, North Carolina, Iowa and Ohio.
Polling aggregators previous to the elections had projected five House district currently or previously held by Democrats likely flipping Republican: Three in Texas and Tennessee affected by Republican voluntary redistricting and AL-02, which is being taken over by a Republican incumbent from a different district after the weakening of the Voting Rights Act by a Supreme Court decision in June allowed an embattled 2023 election map to take effect. In the end, three of these districts remain Democratic despite the redistricting efforts, with Republicans currently only ahead in TX-32 and head-to-head with Democrats in TN-04.
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