Election results live updates: Control of House, Senate still up for grabs. Here’s what we know
For the news as it happened on Election Day, read here.
The red wave that pollsters and analysts projected in the 2022 midterms had not yet come to shore by the time observers went to sleep on Tuesday night, with several of the most-watched midterm elections remaining too close to call.
As day started to break on the East Coast, neither side could decisively claim control of Congress. House seats in New York and California didn’t yet have a winner, nor did Senate seats in Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin and Nevada.
In the Georgia Senate race between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and former professional football player Herschel Walker, neither candidate had yet reached the 50% threshold to avoid a runoff.
Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman beat Republican television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania’s Senate nail-biter. Republican J.D. Vance claimed victory over Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan in Ohio. And in Florida, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis cruised to victory over Charlie Crist, while Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida bested Democratic Rep. Val Demings.
One thing about the House is certain: It will have its first Gen Z member, as 25-year-old Maxwell Frost won election in Florida, taking Demings’ seat.
weighed in on abortion, voting rights and marijuana.
Election officials in multiple states expected vote counting and certification to continue throughout the week. USA TODAY and the USA TODAY Network is on the ground, monitoring what’s happening across the country the day after the polls closed.
Here’s what else to know about Election Day 2022:
- Election 2022 recap: Fetterman flip Pennsylvania Senate seat for Dems; Nevada results still pending
- Governor elections: Arizona, Oregon too close to call; Whitmer, Kemp win reelection
- Senate elections: Senate races recap: John Fetterman defeats Oz in Pennsylvania; Maggie Hassan wins New Hampshire
- House of Representatives elections: Democrats run stronger than expected but may yet lose majority
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breaks down more of the ins and outs here, including explaining what a runoff election is and who’s eligible.
Georgia kept the nation in suspense in 2020, too, when both Senate races there went to runoffs and were decided in January 2021, tipping Senate control to Democrats.
– Donovan Slack
Where does Congress stand?
As of 7 a.m., neither party can claim control of a chamber of Congress.
In the Senate, there are five seats oustanding: Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin and Nevada are too close to call. Alaska’s ranked-choice voting system means results may not be final for up to two more weeks. A party needs 51 seats to have the majority. Right now, the Senate is evenly split, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking ties.
In the House, Republicans needed to gain five seats to acquire the majority. Right now, there are 64 seats without a decision.
– Katie Wadington
Gov. Kathy Hochul held off a Republican challenger backed by party heavyweights eager to turn Andrew Cuomo’s downfall into victory in a reliably blue state, rallying downstate voters to become the first woman elected governor of New York. The Buffalo-born Hochul, 64, also becomes the first upstate governor in a century, dating back to Nathan Miller, who took office in 1921.
With nearly 93% of the vote counted, Hochul was leading Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Trump supporter and military veteran from Long Island who played on voter fears of random violence to cast Hochul as a soft-on-crime Democrat. Hochul garnered 52.7% of the vote.
–LoHud.com
election results released Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning.
The race between Lake, a former TV news anchor, and Hobbs, the outgoing secretary of state and former lawmaker, had been labeled a toss-up by some polls and analysts.
With 62.39% of the vote counted, Hobbs has 50.9% of the vote to Lake’s 49.1%.
– Arizona Republic
were locked in a race that was too close to call early Wednesday.
With 93% of the vote in, Johnson had 50.7% of the vote to 49.3% for Barnes, a difference of nearly 40,000 votes.
“We’ve looked very closely at the numbers,” Johnson told supporters in Neenah. “We feel confident there’s no way they can make up the gap.” He added that he expected to declare victory later in the morning.
Barnes campaign spokeswoman Maddy McDaniel said in a statement: “We always knew this race would be incredibly close. No matter what anyone says, we are committed to making sure every vote is counted. We will wait and see what the Wisconsin voters have decided after all their voices are heard.”
– Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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– Savannah Kuchar
Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich, won reelection over Republican state Sen. Tom Barrett and Libertarian candidate Leah Dailey in Michigan’s new 7th Congressional District, ending one of the nation’s most expensive and closely watched House races.
Slotkin was first elected from the 8th District in 2018, when she flipped a Republican seat that President Donald Trump won in 2016, and she was one of the few Democrats to win reelection in a district that voted for Trump in 2020. A former National Security Council and CIA staffer, she opted to run this year in the newly redrawn 7th District, which is centered on Lansing and would have voted narrowly for President Joe Biden had it existed in 2020.
While Slotkin was endorsed by Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., a harsh Trump critic, Barrett was endorsed by former Vice President Mike Pence.
– Yoori Han, Cronkite News
Gov. Tony Evers won a heated reelection battle against Donald Trump-backed Republican Tim Michels.
A Marquette University Law School poll last week had them tied at 48% just before Election Day.
Evers won the governor’s office by a thin margin in 2018, when he defeated Republican Scott Walker, a 2016 presidential candidate. As governor, Evers’ job approval has been slightly underwater in recent Marquette polls, with 46% approving of the job he’s been doing as governor and 48% disapproving.
– Donovan Slack