There are 7 seats in the Senate. At least 24 Congressional Districts. There are five governorships. 12 state legislatures; By Wednesday afternoon, Democrats’ historic midterm election rout had reached that point.
Meanwhile, Republicans have yet to flip a single Democratic-held congressional seat, governorship or state legislative seat, according to Associated Press data. Their remaining chance of being picked up by Congress is primarily limited to two newly gerrymandered House districts that were never supposed to be competitive in the first place.
The lopsided results underscored the extent of the Republican offensive, with Democrats breaking decades of Republican dominance in reliably red states and reshaping the balance of power from Washington to statehouses.
As of late Wednesday, in addition to two Senate seats and two gubernatorial races, nine House seats remain that the Associated Press has not yet called. Mary Radcliffe, head of research at Fifty Plus One, said in an email that Maine’s 2nd Congressional District is the only seat that could be flipped by Republicans, as redistricting has not changed ahead of this election.
Kansas voters elected the first Democratic U.S. senator since 1932, ending the party’s 94-year losing streak. In Texas, Democrats defeated three-term Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and won a Senate seat the party had not held since 1988. Republican-held Senate seats also fell in Iowa, South Carolina, and Ohio, as did seats in Maine and North Carolina.
The same wave swept over Governor’s Mansion. Democrats pulled off upsets in Georgia, Iowa, Ohio and Nevada (all states won by President Donald Trump in 2024), giving the party a majority of U.S. governorships for the first time since 2010.
The chaos spilled over into the state Capitol, where the decades-long Republican legislative majority fell like dominoes.
Democrats took control of the Texas House for the first time in more than 20 years, flipped both chambers of the Wisconsin Legislature, and wrested the North Carolina House from Republicans after 16 years in the minority.
In Pennsylvania, Democrats took control of the state Senate for the first time since before 1994, giving the party full control of state government. They also took back the Michigan and Minnesota Houses of Representatives, restoring full Democratic control in both states. In Arizona, unofficial results showed Democrats will control both chambers of Congress for the first time in nearly 60 years.
Even where Republicans maintained majorities in Congress, Democrats stripped them of their veto-proof supermajorities in Florida, Indiana, Kansas, and Missouri. According to the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, not since the aftermath of Watergate in 1974 has the Republican Party faced a liquidation of this magnitude in the state Legislature.
The scale of the loss is all the more remarkable given how aggressively Republicans sought to protect power. At President Trump’s urging, Republican lawmakers spent months pushing through an unprecedented mid-decade redistricting effort to redraw congressional boundaries in Texas, Florida and North Carolina to tilt electoral maps in their favor.
But the gerrymandering push did little to blunt the Democratic wave. And the damage may not be over yet. Republicans are still vying to hold Senate seats in Alaska and Mississippi, and several House races have not been called Wednesday.
—Kevin Breuninger contributed to this report.
