Where Trump and the Republicans lost the midterm elections – a visual analysis of key states | 2026 US midterm elections

Republicans lost seven senators, 25 congressional districts and five governor’s races.

As of 9:25 a.m. Eastern Time (ET) Wednesday, more than 1,900 of the nearly 2,500 counties with Senate elections had received more than 90% of their votes. Americans did not turn out in significant numbers to support Republicans, amid high fuel prices and discontent with the president.

This allowed the Democrats to win a number of seats and regain control of the US House of Representatives and Senate. Here’s how it happened.

Data Notes

The election results on this page are reported by the Associated Press. AP calls the winner in a state when it determines that the next candidate has no path to victory. This can happen before 100% of a state’s votes have been counted.

Estimates of the total vote in each state are also provided by AP. The numbers are updated throughout election night and in the following days as more voter turnout data becomes available.

Official results may take days or weeks to be fully finalized. This is often due to the process of verifying absentee, mail-in, and provisional ballots. In some states, mail-in ballots may be received and counted several days after Election Day.

County results are only included in the interactive version if more than 90% of precincts in the county have reported voting data.

Margin Shift compares county-level results for the 2026 Senate election to those for the 2024 presidential election. It only assesses the change in the margin between the two major parties and excludes votes from third-party candidates.

Demographic data used comes from the 2024 U.S. Census Five-Year Estimates of the American Community. Urban and rural classification comes from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Congressional District Health Dashboard. Historical election data comes from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Redistricting boundaries come from the Redistricting Data Hub and All About Redistricting.

Credits for photos used in candidate portraits include Mikala Compton, Kevin Dietsch/Getty, Reuters, Pacific Press/REX/Shutterstock, Jessica Koscielniak, Nathan Howard, Charlie Riedel/AP, official House photography, YouTube and Dominic Byrd-McDevitt.