The key facts

  • Democrats, according to NBC News, NYT and Bloomberg forecasts, win a majority in both chambers of Congress
  • Republicans lost in Maine, Texas and Kansas — states considered their stronghold for decades
  • The final count may take several weeks

Election results

On November 3, 2026, midterm elections were held in the United States. Americans elected a new composition of the House of Representatives (435 seats), one third of the Senate (35 seats), as well as governors of 36 states and members of local legislatures. Midterm elections take place in the middle of a presidential term and are traditionally seen as a kind of referendum on confidence in the incumbent head of state; the ruling party usually loses them. This time that is exactly what happened: Donald Trump's party lost its majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, Kun.uz reports.

The balance in Congress: forecasts differ in the details

According to NBC News forecasts, Democrats will get 255 seats in the House of Representatives against 180 for Republicans, and 52 seats in the Senate against 48. The New York Times estimates the Democrats' Senate result more modestly — 55 seats — but gives them 256 seats in the lower chamber. Bloomberg, on the contrary, puts the Senate result at 53 seats, while giving Democrats only 227 in the House of Representatives — less than the required majority; CNN and Reuters suggest roughly similar figures. The discrepancies between the outlets concern the exact number of seats, but they all agree on the main point: control of both chambers of Congress passes to the Democratic Party. Final results may be announced only in a few weeks.

Sensations in 'Republican' states

The Republicans' losses in states that had been considered their stronghold for decades and where Trump regularly won are especially telling. In Maine, Democrat Troy Jackson defeated Susan Collins, who had been representing the state in the Senate for the last 30 years. In Texas, which had been considered 'Republican' for more than 30 years, Democrat James Talarico defeated the state's attorney general Ken Paxton — the campaign there became one of the most expensive in the country, and Trump personally and ardently backed Paxton, who was implicated in a number of scandals. In Kansas, Adam Hamilton defeated Roger Marshall and became the first Democrat elected to the Senate from that state since 1932 — nearly 100 years.