There’s a separate thread for the Senate elections, because that’s far, far easier to track than the House races and the Gubernatorial races.

Consider this thread open to everything else! House, Governor, state and local measures, everything else!

Polls start closing at 7 PM Eastern, 4 PM Pacific. My plan is to be obsessively posting results as they come in.

Current standings:

US House of Representatives:
Republicans: 218
Democrats: 214
Vacant: 2
Independent: 1

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX23) resigned 04/14/2026. Seat Flipped D.

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL20) resigned 04/21/26. Seat Held.

Rep. Kevin Kiley (CA6) flipped from R to I in March, 2026. Seat Flipped D.

Every seat is up for re-election with 218 necessary for a majority.

Update Current called races put the House at 255 D (+41), 166 R (-52), 0 I (-1) with 19 still undecided. As near as I can tell, Republicans only managed to flip a TWO Democratic seats, Tennessee 9 and Texas 32.

Alaska - 1 uncalled
California - 1 uncalled
Colorado - 1 uncalled
Florida - 1 uncalled
Louisiana - 2 uncalled
Maine - 1 uncalled
Minnesota - 1 uncalled
North Carolina - 4 uncalled
South Carolina - 1 uncalled
Tennessee - 1 uncalled

Flipped Seats as of 11/7:

Source:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-districts-flipped-2026-midterm-elections/

Arizona 1
Arizona 6
California 1
California 6 - Former R turned I, lost to D.
California 22
California 41
California 48
(Colorado 4 is not called yet, but that’s Boebert’s seat and it looks like she’s out)
Colorado 5
Colorado 8
Indiana 5
Iowa 1
Iowa 2
Iowa 3
Kentucky 6
Michigan 4
Michigan 7
Michigan 10
Missouri 2
Montana 1
Nebraska 2
Nevada 2
New Jersey 2
New Jersey 7
New York 17
North Carolina 6
North Carolina 9
North Carolina 11
North Carolina 13
North Carolina 14
Ohio 7
Ohio 10
Ohio 15
Pennsylvania 1
Pennsylvania 7
Pennsylvania 8
Pennsylvania 10
South Carolina 1
Tennessee 9 - Redistricted, Flipped D->R.
Texas 15
Texas 23
Texas 32 - Redistricted, Flipped D->R.
Utah 1
Virginia 1
Virginia 2
Wisconsin 1
Wisconsin 3

Governors:

26 Republicans
24 Democrats

There are 36 seats to be decided this election, 19 of which are open races, meaning no incumbent is defending.

Update
In the Governor Races, Democrats gained 5 seats, Republicans lost 5. No Republican flipped a Democratic seat. Oregon was the closest with Kotek+6 followed by Wisconsin, Crowley+9. All the other Democratic seats were decided by double digits.

Undecided
Alaska - Kreiss-Tomkins (D) +20 - 74% Reporting, on hold pending ranked choice counting.
Kansas - Holscher (D) +0.7 (7,638 votes!) - 99% Reporting

Democratic Flip
Georgia - Bottoms+9
Iowa - Sand+11
Nevada - Ford+7
Ohio - Acton+8
Texas - Hinojosa+7

Democratic Hold
Arizona - Hobbs +13
California - Beccera+27
Colorado - Weiser+27
Connecticut - Lamont+17
Hawaii - Green+50
Illinois - Pritzker+23
Maine - Pingree+19
Maryland - Moore+29
Massachusetts - Healey+28
Michigan - Benson+11
Minnesota - Klobuchar+13
New Mexico - Haaland+15
New York - Hochul+21
Oregon - Kotek+6
Pennsylvania - Shapiro+22
Rhode Island - Foulkes+30
Wisconsin - Crowley+9

Republican Hold
Alabama - Tuberville+5
Arkansas - Huckabee Sanders+15
Florida - Donalds+2
Idaho - Little+25
Nebraska - Pillen+8
New Hampshire - Ayotte+4
Oklahoma - Mazzei+7
South Carolina - Wilson+4
South Dakota - Rhoden+27
Tennessee - Blackburn+3
Vermont - Scott+7
Wyoming - Barlow+52

  • MightEnlightenYou@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    9 days ago

    For anyone claiming that it’s all the same, I have a website tracking supporters of wealth taxation around the world and the US has remarkably many elected politicians who backs taxing extreme wealth. All but 1 are Democrats, and that’s Bernie Sanders (but his seat isn’t up).

    25 people in the Senate backs taxing extreme wealth. 81 people in the House backs taxing extreme wealth. https://wealthtaxsupporters.com/us/seats

  • 2piradians@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    8 days ago

    Texas fuckery for you: My coworker is a registered voter and Puerto Rican. He tried to vote a few weeks ago, but the lady at the election place got sketchy and told him there’s a problem with his registration.

    Yesterday he got a new registration card and planned to vote today…but they pulled a switcheroo on the location. The place where all the early voting happened is closed today in favor of an alternate location.

    He was a maga voter last election who has since learned, and these barriers to his vote have reinforced his move back from the dark side.

  • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
    388·
    8 days ago

    Every single stupid asshole who boycotted the 2024 election better get their asses to the polls and vote Dem if they haven’t already.

    You stupid assholes refused to act when it would have been the easiest for you to do so, and your lack of action contributed to the hell we live in today.

    The blood of Iranians, Palestinians, the Lebanese, Cubans, Venezuelans, hundreds of innocent fisherman, everyone who relied on USAID, and everyone being kidnapped and dissapeared by ICE IS ON YOUR HANDS TOO.

    YOU FUCKING FAILED EVERYONE YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO CARE ABOUT.

    THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING FOR THEM.

    • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      522·
      8 days ago

      I’ve heard “last chance” on elections for my entire life, it gets a little funnier every year. Never change

      • NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
        12·
        8 days ago

        “We’ve been walking on a tightrope over a gaping hellish ever-deepening chasm my whole life, and it’s just so funny when people think every step is the most important one.”

      • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
        132·
        8 days ago

        Hey dumbfuck, any president establish his own gestapo force and start shipping people off to concentration camps in your lifetime?

        Any president completely bypass Congress’s power of the purse and ruin the economy in your lifetime before?

        Any president attempt a coup and still become president again in your lifetime before?

        Any president completely and illegally get away with destroying almost every possible institution that is supposed to keep his power checked in your lifetime before.

        This objectively is the most important election of our lifetimes, and the most consequential. If the GOP is allowed to win, democracy dies. That’s a fact.

        Please do change, you’re an insufferable asshole and I’m sure everyone around you agrees.

  • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    27·
    8 days ago

    I can’t believe I’m about to go to sleep and have an actual, real chance of waking up to a blue Texas. It was mythical, intangible, a flight of fancy. And now I might see it with my own two eyes. I know I shouldn’t have even looked but I just couldn’t resist.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
      8·
      8 days ago

      Talarico and Hinojosa have already won.

      Of the 10 already-confirmed House seats, 9 are Dems. And I’m seeing a lot of light blue squares in Texas (uncalled yet but leaning Dem).

      • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        8 days ago

        Governor, AG, LG, RR commish - wild. I’m elated. I didn’t think it possible, even in hopeful years past. That LG get is massive due to our ridiculous state lege. Anything else majority-wise is icing at this point. I know it’s not a universal rebuke across the country, even as things are going well. But I didn’t in my wildest dreams expect the absolute trouncing in the state. All TX Supreme Court seats went blue by good margins too.

    • redkid1324@sh.itjust.works
      234·
      8 days ago

      Can you explain why a blue Texas is good? Like people moved from California to leave the bad policies behind but are voting in California policies?

      • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
        281·
        8 days ago

        Can you explain why a blue Texas is good?

        sure, here is handy guide:
        fascists - bad
        not fascists - good

          • YragNitram1956@feddit.ukEnglish
            81·
            8 days ago

            'The Trump regime continues to attack all the independent institutions in this country that have traditionally served as buffers against tyranny – universities, non-profits, lawyers and law firms, the media, science and researchers, libraries and museums, the civil service and independent agencies – threatening them with extermination or loss of funding if they do not submit to its oversight and dictatorial demands. Trump even instructed the Department of Justice to investigate ActBlue, the platform that handles the fundraising for almost all Democratic candidates and the issues Democrats support. We are no longer Democrats or Republicans. We are either patriots fighting the regime or we are complicit in its tyranny. There is no middle ground. Trump is still actively destroying the economy. His proposed tariffs are still raising prices. His attacks on the Fed chief, Jerome Powell, persist in causing tremors around the world. Trump wants total power, even at the cost of our democracy and economy. His polls are plummeting yet many Americans are still in denial. “He’s getting things done!” some say. “He’s tough and strong!” Every American with any shred of authority must loudly and boldly explain the danger we are still in.

            • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
              5·
              8 days ago

              you forgot his own gestapo murdering people in the streets, running concentration camps and deporting us citizens into third world countries ignoring the court order telling him not to do so

        • redkid1324@sh.itjust.works
          229·
          8 days ago

          Texas got a huge influx of Californians because California has horrible policies. Now Texas is “blue” which is “good” because… Moving states and voting for the same shit that ruined the state you moved from is ridiculously dumb.

          • ripcord@lemmy.world
            15·
            8 days ago

            I really like the policy of the government not actively trying to kill me.

            So this seems like a good sign for that

              • mrpxilo@lemmy.zip
                11·
                8 days ago

                They sorta just came out and said it. They think we’re “unhumans” that need to be killed. We’re not real humans so the law can’t protect us. JD Vance waved around a manifesto saying conservatives need to load up their muskets and ignore the rules. A lot of us believe them when they say they want us to die.

          • FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
            12·
            8 days ago

            Lmao. People left California because the cost of living is too high because so many people want to live there (and because the state government is too capitalist to do anything to make it affordable). So they went to Texas, where it’s cheap because no one wants to live there because it’s even more capitalist.

            • redkid1324@sh.itjust.works
              13·
              6 days ago

              Yeah and they are going to make the same fucking thing in Texas. How are you so near sighted to not see this.

            • redkid1324@sh.itjust.works
              12·
              6 days ago

              Homelessness. Taxes. Cost of living. Drugs. Literally everything. And if you look at Houston, the same shit is starting from the moving of Californians

      • droopy4096@lemmy.ca
        52·
        8 days ago

        it was federal election. not state. what california policies? texas is still red on the inside they just went blue on federal level. In other words NOTHING changed for texas, but a lot changed on federal level

      • Brkdncr@lemmy.world
        2·
        7 days ago

        What bad policies?

        A significant number of republicans didn’t leave California. It looks like there are around 5 million there. Texas is estimated to have only 6 million republicans.

        • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
          4·
          8 days ago

          While I appreciate that democrats in general are “for they/them”, it’s nice to actually see a they/them take seat of power in government.

        • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
          4·
          8 days ago

          AP hasn’t called Sec. State or House D2, but they are not looking good. I was expecting a R sweep, but I was really really wanting to get rid of Cotton.

          EDIT: Sorry, I lost the thread context. The above was about my state of Arkansas (where Rs are going to sweep).

          Great! More blue in the South can only be good. I hope the Ds down here can focus on Working-class issues. If we could get a generation of blue-collar workers (incl. farmers and ranchers) that don’t automatically vote R “for economic reasons”, we might also see some movement on other attitudes.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      8 days ago

      AP doesn’t make projections but in confirmed seats alone, Dems are already up 153 to 95 with 187 seats yet to be called.

      And I’m seeing a lot of light blue (meaning uncalled seats leaning Dem)

  • criss_cross@lemmy.world
    19·
    8 days ago

    I sit here with a sinking feeling in my stomach. I’m hoping for good news. I’m hoping this is a turning point.

    But man I don’t know what I’m gonna do if it turns out to be a wash and we get more years of this shit.

    • dragontamer@lemmy.world
      191·
      8 days ago

      We are getting more years of this shit regardless. The best Democrats can do is conduct investigations (that will be ignored), hold debates (that will be ignored), and pass laws that will be veto’d.

      That’s better than the alternative but don’t pretend like the midterms are going to be a major shift of power. Its just one step, the legislature. Republicans still have the Presidency and the Supreme Court backing them. Even if House + Senate go blue this year, that’s 1 branch vs 2 branches.

      • tyo_ukko@sopuli.xyz
        121·
        8 days ago

        If Trump loses badly, it will also send a powerful message. Then everyone knows that no one likes Trump no matter how Fox News tries to spin it. It will make the whole Republican party freak out for 2028.

        • tmyakal@infosec.pub
          82·
          8 days ago

          Are you kidding? For Fox and Friends, the powerful message will be how effective the Dems rigged the election, and why none of them should be allowed to be sworn into congress. There are no teachable moments for the wilfully ignorant.

          • tyo_ukko@sopuli.xyz
            6·
            8 days ago

            Yeah, but the election rigging works less well when the result is overwhelming for democrats. In fact, it might even alienate people who voted R before, but switched to D. Some part of the population will lap it up, but they will believe absolutely anything anyway.

          • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            8 days ago

            No matter who wins, the losers will say the election was rigged.

            Proud US tradition since 2000. Every election.

      • criss_cross@lemmy.world
        7·
        8 days ago

        It’s still at least a branch that can stymie a lot of things.

        I’m not saying things are magically gonna get fixed but there’s a lot of bad that’s been able to go through because congress is complicit or “shuts down” at the right time.

        I don’t have a lot of hope and this is my only chance for a light at the end of the tunnel.

        • dragontamer@lemmy.world
          9·
          8 days ago

          If the Democrats win the House of Senate, it’s very good news regardless.

          The Senate map is impossible. I mean it’s probably happening but Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina are supposed to be impossible.

          But it’s only going to truly matter if the memomentum continues into 2028. This year is an important first step forward but that’s all it is or can be, just a step.

          • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
            2·
            8 days ago

            As an Arkansan, I was really hoping we’d get rid of Traitor Cotton, but it was not to be. We’ve got a lot of misogynists (“I don’t hate women, I just believe they should never be in leadership above a man.”) and Cotton still resonates with many of the people that voted him in the first time. I voted against Lincoln in the primaries because of how she fucked with ACA / Obamacare, but I’ve never liked Cotton.

      • TipRing@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        8 days ago

        Dems taking the Senate by a few seats is important because it denies Trump further judicial or supreme court nominees. Having both chambers allows Democrats the ability to set the budget agenda and will force Trump to negotiate which he is terrible at.

        This is still important.

      • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
        2·
        8 days ago

        Yeah, there’s a significant limit on what lawmaking can be done with an adversarial President. I think one potentially effective strategy is to pass legislation that is good for the country as a while, but where a Presidental veto would also weaken public opinion of the opposition. If there’s no veto it’s a total win. If it is vetoed, democrats make it part of their campaign strategies in 12-18 months.

        Investigative and budgetary powers can also still be used, but they are less flashy and can play negatively in the media. If a D congress is seen as doing nothing but investigating Rs and shutting down the government, there might not be a D congress in 2 years.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
      7·
      8 days ago

      I know you posted this twelve hours ago when the results weren’t coming in yet, but at this point I’ve been watching the counts on the Associated Press and it’s looking really good so far. I’m feeling a sense of hope for the first time in a long time.

      It’s not just the good election results I find encouraging. It’s the shift in the zeitgeist. Things are happening man, I can feel it.

      • criss_cross@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 days ago

        Yeah this has done a lot to restore hope. Fucking KANSAS and IOWA flipping blue senate is nuts. And Mississippi being a toss up? Holy shit!

        • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          8 days ago

          Yeah, that’s fucking crazy. It’s currently sitting at a 28 vote lead with 3% of the ballots left to count.

          Also, it’s official: both chambers went blue! Dems now have 220 221 confirmed seats in the House, with 85 races still to be called!

  • NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
    14·
    8 days ago

    Mississippi was called R, but super close: ~15,200 vote difference with 92% reporting. That would have been insane. I wonder if it’s in recount territory. (Independent Ty Pinkins got 19,000 votes, for what it’s worth.)

    https://abcnews.com/Politics/mississippi-2026-live-midterm-election-results/story?id=136767242

    Edit: Too close to call, probably going to head to recount territory either way. Colom ahead by 48(!) votes as of 1:12 AM: