AP: Democrats Win Control of the U.S. Senate; House Still Too Early to Call
The Associated Press says Democrats have won the Senate, with six seats flipping from Republican hands, including Texas, Kansas and South Carolina. The AP says the House is too early to call.
The Associated Press says Democrats have won control of the U.S. Senate, ending Republican control of the chamber, according to its live election coverage late Tuesday.
The Senate. The AP says six Senate seats have flipped toward Democrats and describes the result as the first time in decades that Texas, Kansas and South Carolina have elected Democratic senators. In our key-race list, the AP has called Democrat James Talarico in Texas (11:03 p.m. Eastern, 10:03 p.m. Central), Democrat Annie Andrews in South Carolina, Democrat Adam Hamilton in Kansas, Democrat Sherrod Brown in Ohio, Democrat Roy Cooper in North Carolina and Democrat Josh Turek in Iowa. The AP also called Democrat Jon Ossoff's reelection in Georgia and Democrat Chris Pappas in New Hampshire.
The governors. The AP says Democrats Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia, Amy Acton in Ohio, Rob Sand in Iowa and Gina Hinojosa in Texas won governor races that Republicans held. Republican Byron Donalds was called the winner in Florida.
The House. The AP says the House is too early to call. It reports that Democrats have flipped seven seats so far. The AP says it will declare House control only when one party reaches 218 seats.
Still open. Counts are unofficial until states certify them. As of our latest update, the AP had not called Senate races in Michigan, Nebraska or Maine, or Alaska, where polls have only just closed. Several House races, including Florida's 13th and 27th Districts, remain too close to call.
Opinion and reaction. Reaction from both parties is still coming in. We will label commentary as opinion when we publish it.
Where to follow. Our Election Headquarters page shows each key race, who called it and when, and the unofficial counts, updated every 15 minutes.
What we could not check. Vote counts quoted on our live page come from NBC News results pages that use AP data and may be behind the AP's own latest calls. We have not seen official state certifications.