Key facts
- Democrats won Senate seats in Iowa, Texas, Kansas and Ohio, among other states, per the AP projection reported by Global Agriculture.
- Sherrod Brown is returning to the Senate from Ohio and may seek the Senate Agriculture Committee chairmanship, a process not finalized.
- Republican Representatives Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin and Zach Nunn of Iowa, both on the House Agriculture Committee, lost their seats.
- Senator Amy Klobuchar, the top Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, was elected governor of Minnesota.
- Agriculture lobbyist Tom Sell won Texas's 19th district seat being vacated by retiring Representative Jodey Arrington.
The Associated Press projected Democrats will win control of both the US House and Senate after midterm elections held in the week before November 10, 2026, according to Global Agriculture. Democratic wins in Iowa, Texas, Kansas and Ohio, among other states, drove the outcome. The shift is already reordering the congressional committees that will write the next farm bill.