# Democrats Win the Senate and House and Flip Five Governorships; Two Senate Seats Still Uncalled The Associated Press has Democrats at 54 Senate seats and 240 House seats, with five Republican governorships flipped. Alaska and Mississippi Senate races are still open. All counts are unofficial. - Section: [Politics](https://rightnewsrightnow.com/politics/) - Published: 2026-11-05 - By: RightNewsRightNow Staff - Canonical page: https://rightnewsrightnow.com/articles/democrats-win-senate-house-flip-five-governorships-ap-results-alaska-mississippi-uncalled/ Republicans lost the Senate, the House and five governorships on Tuesday. That is the Associated Press count, and it is the only count this site treats as a call. Every number below is unofficial. No state has certified. As of 10:56 p.m. Central on Wednesday, Nov. 4, the AP showed: - Senate: Democrats 54, Republicans 44, two races not called. The totals include seats not up this year. Democrats needed 51. - House: Democrats 240, Republicans 147, 48 races not called. A majority is 218. Our earlier scorecard recorded the AP's call of House control for Democrats at 12:24 a.m. Central Wednesday. - Governors: Democrats 28, Republicans 20, two races not called, counting states with no race this year. ## Senate: seven Republican seats flipped Per the AP, Democrats took these Republican-held Senate seats: - Iowa: Josh Turek over Ashley Hinson. AP count: 50.5% to 46.4%, about 99% counted. - Kansas: Adam Hamilton over Sen. Roger Marshall. 51.0% to 46.0%, about 99% counted. - Maine: Troy Jackson over Sen. Susan Collins. 53.4% to 46.5%, about 91% counted. - North Carolina: Roy Cooper over Michael Whatley. 58.7% to 39.1%, about 99% counted. - Ohio (special election): Sherrod Brown over Sen. Jon Husted. - South Carolina: Annie Andrews over Sen. Darline Graham. 51.1% to 46.7%, about 99% counted. - Texas: James Talarico over Ken Paxton. Democrats held their other seats the AP has called: Georgia (Jon Ossoff over Rep. Mike Collins), New Hampshire (Chris Pappas over John Sununu), Michigan (Abdul El-Sayed over Mike Rogers), Minnesota (Peggy Flanagan over Michele Tafoya), Colorado (John Hickenlooper), Delaware (Chris Coons), Illinois (Stratton), Massachusetts (Edward Markey), New Jersey (Cory Booker), New Mexico (Ben Ray Lujan), Oregon (Jeff Merkley), Rhode Island (Jack Reed) and Virginia (Mark Warner). Republicans held 13 seats the AP has called: Alabama (Barry Moore), Arkansas (Tom Cotton), Florida special (Ashley Moody), Idaho (Jim Risch), Kentucky (Andy Barr), Louisiana (Julia Letlow), Montana (Kurt Alme), Nebraska (Pete Ricketts, over independent Dan Osborn), Oklahoma (Kevin Hern), South Dakota (Mike Rounds), Tennessee (Bill Hagerty), West Virginia (Shelley Moore Capito) and Wyoming (Harriet Hageman). Not called: Alaska and Mississippi. See "Still Counting." ## Governors: five Republican seats flipped The AP has Democrats winning these Republican-held governorships: - Georgia: Keisha Lance Bottoms, the first Black woman elected governor in U.S. history, per the AP. - Iowa: Rob Sand over Zach Lahn. 55.5% to 44.5%. - Nevada: Aaron Ford over Gov. Joe Lombardo. 51.4% to 44.4%, about 87% counted. - Ohio: Amy Acton over Vivek Ramaswamy. - Texas: Gina Hinojosa over Gov. Greg Abbott. Democratic holds the AP has called: Arizona (Katie Hobbs), California (Xavier Becerra), Colorado (Phil Weiser), Connecticut (Ned Lamont), Hawaii (Josh Green), Illinois (JB Pritzker), Maine (Hannah Pingree), Maryland (Wes Moore), Massachusetts (Maura Healey), Michigan (Jocelyn Benson), Minnesota (Amy Klobuchar), New Mexico (Deb Haaland), New York (Kathy Hochul), Oregon (Tina Kotek), Pennsylvania (Josh Shapiro), Rhode Island (Helena Foulkes) and Wisconsin (David Crowley). Republican holds: Alabama (Tommy Tuberville), Arkansas (Sarah Huckabee Sanders), Florida (Byron Donalds, 50.0% to 48.7% over David Jolly), Idaho (Brad Little), Nebraska (Jim Pillen), New Hampshire (Kelly Ayotte), Oklahoma (Mike Mazzei), South Carolina (Alan Wilson), South Dakota (Larry Rhoden), Tennessee (Marsha Blackburn), Vermont (Phil Scott) and Wyoming (Eric Barlow). Not called: Alaska and Kansas. ## House: what the AP has called on our 78-race map Among the races we track, the AP has called these for Democrats: Alabama 2 (Rep. Shomari Figures), California 22 (Randy Villegas), Colorado 8 (Manny Rutinel), Florida 14 (Rep. Kathy Castor), Florida 22 (Pia Dandiya), Florida 25 (Rep. Jared Moskowitz), Iowa 1 (Christina Bohannan), Iowa 2 (Lindsay James), Iowa 3 (Sarah Trone Garriott), Kentucky 6 (Zach Dembo), Michigan 4 (Sean McCann), Michigan 7 (William Lawrence over Rep. Tom Barrett), Michigan 10 (Christina Hines), New Jersey 7 (Rebecca Bennett), New Mexico 2 (Rep. Gabe Vasquez), North Carolina 11 (Jamie Ager), Ohio 7 (Brian Poindexter), Ohio 9 (Rep. Marcy Kaptur), Ohio 15 (Don Leonard), Pennsylvania 1 (Bob Harvie), Pennsylvania 7 (Bob Brooks), Pennsylvania 8 (Paige Cognetti), Pennsylvania 10 (Janelle Stelson), Texas 15 (Bobby Pulido, who ousted Rep. Monica de la Cruz), Texas 23 (Katy Padilla Stout), Texas 34 (Rep. Vicente Gonzalez), Texas 35 (Johnny Garcia), Virginia 2 (Elaine Luria), Washington 3 (Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez), Wisconsin 1 (Mitchell Berman) and Wisconsin 3 (Rebecca Cooke). Since our 5:37 p.m. Central update, the AP has also called California 47 (Dave Min), California 48 (Marni von Wilpert) and Nevada 2 (Teresa Benitez-Thompson), all Democrats. Republicans held a string of Texas seats, including the 2nd (Steve Toth), 5th (Lance Gooden), 22nd (Trever Nehls), 27th (Michael Cloud), 32nd (Jace Yarbrough) and 38th (Jon Bonck), plus Nebraska 1 (Mike Flood) and Oklahoma 5 (Stephanie Bice). ## How to read this Only the AP's calls count as calls here. Vote shares are the AP's unofficial counts at the time of reading and will move. Candidates' claims of victory are theirs, not findings. Sources: Associated Press results pages for Senate, governor and House (apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/), read about 10:50 p.m. Central Nov. 4; AP state pages; AP takeaways (Steve Peoples, Bill Barrow and Linley Sanders); our earlier AP-based scorecard of Nov. 4 and our 5:37 p.m. Central race data. ## Source Original reporting: [Associated Press](https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/)