2026 Midterm election results master guide: All 35 Senate races; 36 governor races; every House seat that flipped

Democrats won control of both the House and the Senate in the November 3, 2026 midterm elections.

By the Associated Press count as of 9 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, November 8, Democrats have won 254 House seats and Republicans 162, with 19 seats still to be called. In the Senate, Democrats flipped seven Republican-held seats and will hold at least 54 of the 100 seats in the new Senate, counting the two independents who caucus with them. The Senate races in Mississippi and Alaska are still being counted. Democrats also took five governorships from Republicans: Georgia, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio and Texas.

This page has the 2026 midterm winners in every Senate and governor race, the House majority and each House seat that changed parties, the races still open, and the dates through January 3, 2027, when the new Congress takes office. It is updated as the AP calls the remaining races and states certify their counts.

California's own results, including all 14 propositions, are in our California election results master guide. A section below covers how California's House delegation changed under the Prop 50 map.

After the 2026 midterms, Democrats will hold at least 254 House seats, 54 Senate seats and 28 governorships:

A House majority takes 218 seats. Several news organizations projected, on election night or early the next morning, that Democrats would reach it. NewsNation's Decision Desk HQ projected Democratic control at 9:11 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, TheWrap reported. NBC News projected it later that night, and the AP's projection followed early Wednesday.

Going into the election, the House had 218 Republicans, 214 Democrats, one independent and two vacancies, according to the House Clerk's member list published November 3. The independent, Rep. Kevin Kiley of California, caucuses with the Republicans.

Senate control takes 51 seats this time. Vice President JD Vance, a Republican, breaks ties, so Democrats needed 51 for a majority, as the AP's Senate results page notes. The chamber went into the election at 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats and two independents, according to the Senate's party division page. The independents, Angus King of Maine and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, are members of the Senate Democratic Caucus.

Governors went in at 26 Republicans and 24 Democrats, according to the National Governors Association's governors roster.

Senate results in all 35 races, including the Florida and Ohio specials:

Thirty-five Senate seats were on the ballot. Thirty-three were the regular Class II seats whose terms end in January, and two were special elections for unexpired terms: Florida's seat, which Marco Rubio left to become secretary of state, and Ohio's, which JD Vance left to become vice president. Republicans held 22 of the 35 going in and Democrats 13, the AP's results data show.

Democrats kept all 13 of their seats, including four open ones: Illinois (Juliana Stratton), Michigan (Abdul El-Sayed), Minnesota (Peggy Flanagan) and New Hampshire (Chris Pappas). They also won seven of the Republicans' 22.

By our ordering of the AP's call times, Iowa was the Democrats' 51st seat. The AP called it for Josh Turek at 11:35 p.m. Eastern on election night. Counting the 34 Democratic and independent senators who were not up this year, it was the 17th race Democrats won that night, and the 51st seat.

2026 U.S. Senate results in all 35 races:

Democrats flipped seven Republican Senate seats from Maine to Texas:

Every one of the seven was a Republican seat won by a Democrat. Three were open seats, and four Republican senators lost, two of them appointees:

• Iowa: Josh Turek won the open seat over Rep. Ashley Hinson, 50.5% to 46.4%.
• Kansas: Adam Hamilton unseated Sen. Roger Marshall, 51.0% to 46.0%.
• Maine: Troy Jackson unseated Sen. Susan Collins, 53.1% to 46.8%.
• North Carolina: former Gov. Roy Cooper won the seat Sen. Thom Tillis held, beating Michael Whatley 58.7% to 39.1%.
• Ohio: Sherrod Brown beat Sen. Jon Husted in the special election for Vance's former seat, 50.0% to 45.2%.
• South Carolina: Annie Andrews beat Sen. Darline Graham, 51.1% to 46.6%. Gov. Henry McMaster appointed Graham in July after the death of her brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Live 5 News reported.
• Texas: James Talarico beat Ken Paxton, 55.1% to 43.0%, for the seat held by Sen. John Cornyn, who was not on the ballot.

The vote shares are the AP's count. Where the states' own results could be read, they match: North Carolina's State Board of Elections data has Cooper at 58.72%, and South Carolina's Election Commission has Andrews at 51.14%.

Republicans held 13 seats. The closest were Louisiana, where Julia Letlow won 50.9% to 49.1%, and Florida, where Sen. Ashley Moody kept the seat she was appointed to with 50.9%. In Nebraska, Sen. Pete Ricketts beat independent Dan Osborn 50.1% to 43.9%. In Montana, Kurt Alme beat independent Seth Bodnar for the seat Sen. Steve Daines held.

The Ohio winner does not wait for January. Ohio law keeps an appointed senator in office only "until the fifteenth day of December succeeding the next regular state election," under Ohio Revised Code 3521.02, so Brown can be sworn in as early as December 15. Moody, Florida's appointee, won her race and simply stays.

Mississippi and Alaska Senate races are still being counted:

Both are Republican seats where a Democrat leads, and both leads are under 0.5 points. If Democrats win both, they will hold 56 seats, counting the independents.

Mississippi has no recount law for its 2,574-vote Senate margin:

Democrat Scott Colom leads Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith 467,930 to 465,356, or 49.1% to 48.8%, with about 97% of the expected vote counted, by the AP's count. Independent Ty Pinkins has 2.1%. Mississippi's Secretary of State has not posted results for the November 3 election, so the AP's tally is the running count.

The calendar comes from the Secretary of State's 2026 elections calendar:

• November 10, 5 p.m.: the last day for mailed absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day to arrive, and for voters who cast an affidavit ballot without ID to show it.
• November 13: counties must send their certified returns to the Secretary of State, within 10 days of the election under section 23-15-603 of the state code.
• December 3: the Secretary of State declares the results. Under section 23-15-605, the person "having the largest number of votes" wins, so there is no Senate runoff.

Mississippi has no recount process for this race. The Secretary of State's office told ABC News that candidates cannot ask for one and that none is triggered automatically. A candidate can examine the ballot boxes "at any time within twelve (12) days after the canvass" under section 23-15-911 and then go to court. The Constitution also makes each chamber "the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members" (Article I, Section 5), so the Senate itself decides whether to seat the winner.

Alaska's ranked-choice tabulation starts November 18 if no Senate candidate has a majority:

Democrat Mary Peltola leads Sen. Dan Sullivan 102,962 to 102,325, or 48.2% to 47.9%, with about 74% of the expected vote counted in the AP's tally. Neither has a majority, and Alaska uses ranked-choice voting. Ballots from inside the U.S. must arrive by November 13 and overseas ballots by November 18, according to the Division of Elections' calendar. The Division's election information page says: "Tabulation rounds will begin after the last counting of ballots on the 15th day following election day." The 15th day is November 18. In each round the last-place candidate is dropped and those ballots move to their next choice, under AS 15.15.350.

The ballot also listed a second candidate named Sullivan, Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., with no party; the AP's count gives him 1.7%. The Justice Department sued Alaska to stop it from certifying any result affected by voter confusion over the two names. Judge Sharon Gleason dismissed the suit on November 1, and the department filed a notice of appeal, Alaska Public Media reported. Her order (a copy posted by Straight Arrow News) holds that the United States lacked standing to sue.

The Division's target date to certify is November 25. A losing candidate can apply for a recount until November 30 on the Division's current calendar, and the state pays for it if the margin is less than 0.5% of the votes for the two candidates, under AS 15.20.430 through 15.20.480.

Governor results in all 36 races:

Thirty-six states elected governors. Counting three U.S. territories, there were 39 governor's races, and 22 had an incumbent who was term-limited or not on the ballot, the NGA's 2026 elections page says. Democrats have won 22 of the 34 races the AP has called, and Republicans 12. With the 14 states that had no governor's race, that makes 28 Democratic governors and 20 Republicans, with Alaska and Kansas uncalled.

2026 governor results in all 36 races:

Democrats flipped five governorships, all from Republicans:

No Democratic governorship has gone to a Republican among the races called so far. The five Democratic pickups:

• Georgia: Keisha Lance Bottoms won the open seat over Rick Jackson, 54.3% to 45.7%. Gov. Brian Kemp was term-limited.
• Iowa: Rob Sand beat Zach Lahn, 55.5% to 44.5%, for the seat Gov. Kim Reynolds held. Reynolds was not on the ballot.
• Nevada: Aaron Ford unseated Gov. Joe Lombardo, 51.6% to 44.0%.
• Ohio: Amy Acton beat Vivek Ramaswamy, 52.3% to 44.4%. Gov. Mike DeWine was term-limited.
• Texas: Gina Hinojosa unseated Gov. Greg Abbott, 52.8% to 45.7%.

Republicans held 12, several narrowly. In Florida, Byron Donalds won 50.0% to 48.7%. In Alabama, Sen. Tommy Tuberville won 52.0% to 48.0%. In Tennessee, Sen. Marsha Blackburn won with 45.5% to Democrat Jerri Green's 43.0%, while independent David Hatley took 9.3%. Gov. Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire and Alan Wilson in South Carolina each won by just over four points.

Two governor's races are still open:

• Kansas: Democrat Cindy Holscher leads Republican Ty Masterson 551,250 to 543,612, or 50.35% to 49.65%, by the AP's count. Secretary of State Scott Schwab ordered a close-race audit, which state law requires in even years for statewide races within 1% on election night (K.S.A. 25-3009). Counties canvass by November 16 (K.S.A. 25-3104). A candidate can then request a recount by 5 p.m. the next day, and the state pays only if the margin is half a percent or less (K.S.A. 25-3107). The current margin is 0.70%, by our math. The State Board of Canvassers must be called to meet by December 1 (K.S.A. 25-3206), and the new governor takes office January 11, 2027, the second Monday in January under the Kansas Constitution. Kansas has a Democratic governor now, so a Masterson win would be Republicans' first governorship pickup of 2026.
• Alaska: Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins has 49.1% of first-choice votes, far ahead of Republican Bernadette Wilson at 29.2%, with two more Republicans splitting much of the rest. He is short of a majority so far. If he stays short after the last ballots are counted, the race goes to the same ranked-choice tabulation as the Senate seat. Alaska's governor takes office at noon on December 7, the first Monday in December, under Article III, Section 4 of the state constitution.

Democrats won the House with 254 seats so far by the AP's count, to Republicans' 162:

Democrats have 36 more seats than the 218 a majority needs, with 19 seats still to be called. The AP's House total counts three California races whose finalists share a party: the 4th and 7th, where two Democrats ran, and the 40th, where two Republicans ran. The AP counts those seats for a party before it calls a winner.

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries is seeking the speakership. If he is elected, he would be the first Black speaker of the House, the AP reported. The House elects its speaker when the new Congress meets on January 3. A candidate needs a majority of the votes cast for a named person, and members who answer "present" are not counted. The Clerk's roll calls show the rule at work. In January 2025, Speaker Mike Johnson won with 218 of the 434 votes cast for candidates. In January 2023, Kevin McCarthy won with 216 because six members voted "present," which lowered the number he needed.

Several states held their 2026 House elections on maps drawn in the middle of the decade. Texas (House Bill 4 of 2025), North Carolina (Senate Bill 249 of 2025), Florida (House Bill 1-D of 2026) and California (Proposition 50) all enacted new lines. The National Conference of State Legislatures' redistricting tracker lists Ohio, Utah, Tennessee and Louisiana as using new maps as well. That matters for how "flips" are counted, which the next section explains.

House seats that changed parties in the 2026 midterms:

The AP marks 46 House seats as changing party. Democrats won 44 of them and Republicans two.

The AP compares each winner with the party that held the same district number before the election. In states with new maps, that rule can count a redrawn or renumbered district as a flip even when no incumbent lost. So the table below labels each of the 46 by what changed:

1. Thirty Republican incumbents lost to Democrats. Among them are Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick and Scott Perry in Pennsylvania, Mike Lawler in New York, Mike Turner in Ohio and Ann Wagner in Missouri.
2. Eleven open Republican seats went to Democrats. In each, the member who held the seat (or last held it, in Texas's vacant 23rd) was not on the ballot, including Darrell Issa in California, Don Bacon in Nebraska, Nancy Mace in South Carolina and Mark Amodei in Nevada.
3. Five changes come from new or renumbered districts. Democrats won the new 1st District under Utah's court-ordered map. Republicans won Tennessee's 9th and Texas's 32nd, both open Democratic seats on new maps. And in California, Democratic Reps. Ami Bera and Linda Sánchez won the new 3rd and 41st districts, numbers that Kiley and Rep. Ken Calvert held under the old map.

The 46 House seats that changed party in 2026, by the AP’s count:

19 House seats are still undecided, from Alaska to Florida:

The AP lists 19 House seats whose party is still to be decided. Democrats lead in five and Republicans in 12, and the other two go to Louisiana runoffs. Three more California races have no AP call yet, but each is certain to stay with one party because both finalists share it.

The 19 House seats still to be called:

What decides each depends on the state:

• Florida: four seats are within one point. Florida orders a machine recount when the margin is half a percent or less of the votes cast, unless the trailing candidate waives it in writing, under section 102.141 of the state's statutes. In the 27th District, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar leads Eliott Rodriguez by 1,090 of 247,966 votes in the state's results file, or 0.44%, below that threshold. The 7th District's margin is just above it, at 0.503%. Where a recount is held, the second unofficial returns are due at 3 p.m. on November 12. Counties report official results by noon November 16 (section 102.112), and the state canvassing commission certifies on November 17 (section 102.111).
• North Carolina: four Republican-held seats are within about a point. In the 5th District, Democrat Chuck Hubbard leads Rep. Virginia Foxx by 99 votes in the State Board of Elections' precinct file, and most provisional ballots had not been added when it was posted.
• Minnesota's 1st and Tennessee's 4th: Democrats lead Republican incumbents by a few hundred votes. Jake Johnson is 322 votes ahead of Rep. Brad Finstad in the Secretary of State's results file (321 in the AP's count). Victoria Broderick leads Rep. Scott DesJarlais by 280 in the AP's count.
• Alaska and Maine's 2nd: both states use ranked-choice voting for these races. In Alaska, Rep. Nick Begich has 49.6% of first choices. In Maine's 2nd, Republican Paul LePage has 49.9% in the AP's count, short of a majority.
• Louisiana's 5th and 6th: Louisiana held open primaries for the House on November 3, and the top two in each district meet in a general election on December 12, the Secretary of State's election dates show. The state's results data marks Patricia Moore and Gabe Firment for the runoff in the 5th, and Chauna Banks and Blake Miguez in the 6th, where third place missed out by 972 votes.

California will send at least three Republicans to the House, and possibly a fourth, under the Prop 50 map:

California elected all 52 House members on new districts this year. Proposition 50, approved in a November 2025 special election, replaced the commission's map with one the Legislature drew. Going in, the delegation was 43 Democrats, eight Republicans and Kiley, the independent who caucuses with Republicans.

The AP has called the 5th District for Rep. Tom McClintock and the 20th for Rep. Vince Fong. The 40th will go to a Republican either way: two Republican incumbents ran against each other there, and Rep. Ken Calvert leads Rep. Young Kim 53.8% to 46.2%. In the 23rd, Rep. Jay Obernolte leads Democrat Tessa Hodge 51.4% to 48.6%, uncalled, in the Secretary of State's count as of November 8 at 4:21 p.m. Those four districts are the only ones where registered Republicans outnumber registered Democrats under the new map, a finding in our House races master guide. Democrats have won or lead in the other 48.

Three Republican members and Kiley will not return to the House, and Democrats won the four districts involved, all on AP calls:

• 1st District: Democrat Mike McGuire beat Rep. James Gallagher, who won the old 1st in a June special election, 55.2% to 44.8%.
• 6th District: Democrat Richard Pan beat Kiley, 58.6% to 41.4%.
• 22nd District: Democrat Randy Villegas beat Rep. David Valadao, 66.6% to 33.4%.
• 48th District: Democrat Marni von Wilpert won the seat Rep. Darrell Issa held, 59.3% to 40.7%. Issa was not on the ballot.

The AP's flip list for California is different: it counts the 1st, 3rd, 22nd, 41st and 48th, because it compares district numbers. Kiley's loss in the 6th is not on it, since a Democrat held the old 6th.

Two Democratic incumbents lost or trail other Democrats. Angela Gonzales-Torres beat Rep. Jimmy Gomez in the 34th District, 62.0% to 38.0%. Rep. Mike Thompson trails Eric Jones in the 4th, 47.4% to 52.6%, uncalled. In San Francisco's 11th District, where Rep. Nancy Pelosi did not run, the AP called the race for state Sen. Scott Wiener over Connie Chan on November 6.

California's 48 Democrats would be 18.9% of the AP's 254 Democratic seats so far, by our math. Seven of them are already the senior Democrat on a House committee, according to the Clerk's November 3 member list: Maxine Waters on Financial Services, Jared Huffman on Natural Resources, Robert Garcia on Oversight and Government Reform, Zoe Lofgren on Science, Space, and Technology, Mark Takano on Veterans' Affairs, Mark DeSaulnier on Ethics and Ro Khanna on the select committee on China. That is six of the House's 20 standing committees. The Oversight Democrats' own site already calls Garcia the "Incoming Oversight Chairman." Committee chairs are chosen when the new Congress organizes in January.

The 2026 post-election calendar runs from November 10 to January 3:

These are the dates that settle what is still open, from the sources cited above:

• November 10: Mississippi's deadline for late mail ballots and affidavit-ballot ID.
• November 13: Mississippi counties send certified returns. Alaska's deadline for absentee ballots mailed inside the U.S.
• November 12: Florida's second unofficial returns are due at 3 p.m. in any race with a machine recount.
• November 16: Florida counties report official results by noon. Kansas counties finish their canvass.
• November 17: Florida's Elections Canvassing Commission certifies. The deadline for a Kansas recount request, if the last county canvasses on November 16.
• November 18: Alaska's last ballots are counted and ranked-choice tabulation begins.
• November 25: Alaska's target date to certify.
• November 28 and 30: Alaska's recount application deadlines for governor and for Senate.
• December 1: Kansas State Board of Canvassers meets.
• December 3: Mississippi's Secretary of State declares the results.
• December 7: Alaska's and Hawaii's governors take office.
• December 11: California certifies its results.
• December 12: Louisiana's House runoffs in the 5th and 6th districts.
• December 15: Ohio's appointed senator's term ends, and Sherrod Brown can be sworn in as early as that day.
• January 3, 2027: the 120th Congress convenes at noon, under the 20th Amendment, unless Congress sets another day by law. New senators' terms begin and the House begins voting for a speaker.

This page's 2026 midterm results come from AP race calls and state election offices:

Every race call on this page is the AP's, and the AP's count supplies the vote shares in the tables. We read both from the AP's own results pages and the race data behind them, which record each call and when it was made. Where a state's official results could be read, we checked the AP's numbers against them. They match, allowing for counts posted at different times. Every count is unofficial until the state certifies it.

A race is listed as won only when the AP has called it. The exception is the three California races where both finalists share a party, which the AP counts for that party before calling them. A "flip" is a seat the AP marks as changing party, and the House section explains how new maps affect that count. Percentages may not add to 100 because the tables omit minor candidates and write-ins.

This page is updated when the AP calls one of the open races, and on the dates in the calendar above. It runs until the new Congress convenes on January 3.

After the 2026 midterm results, the 120th Congress convenes January 3 with Democratic majorities:

Democrats will run the House and the Senate in the new Congress, and they will hold at least 28 governorships once the winners take office. What is left is the size of those majorities. If Democrats win Mississippi and Alaska, they will have 56 Senate seats. The final House count depends on the 19 undecided seats, and the last two governorships are in Alaska and Kansas.

The calendar for the open races runs from Mississippi's ballot deadline on November 10 to Louisiana's runoffs on December 12. The new Congress convenes at noon on January 3, 2027. For California's own results, our results master guide is updated through the state's December 11 certification.