Key facts
- Republicans' share of the vote in counted counties dropped 9 percentage points versus Trump's 2024 share, per Reuters and USA Today tallies.
- Among 64 majority-Hispanic counties with Senate contests, the Republican share was 14 points below Trump's 2024 level.
- In Hidalgo County, Texas, the Republican vote share shrank by about 25 percentage points; Miami-Dade fell 10 points.
- Republicans won no House or Senate race widely seen as competitive before voting began on Tuesday, per the report.
- Democrats won four House seats Trump carried by more than 15 percentage points, including the Indiana district.
- In Florida, Democrat Angie Nixon came within 3 percentage points of a Senate seat; Trump won the state by 13 in 2024.
Democrats won control of the US Congress in the November 3 midterm elections, taking races in states where the party had not won statewide in a generation, Reuters reported. The scale of the victories became clear on Wednesday morning as more ballots were counted and more races decided.
Republicans lost ground in 99% of the roughly 2,100 counties where most votes had been counted by Wednesday morning, according to tallies compiled by Reuters and USA Today, which partnered to collect live election results. Republicans' share of the vote in those counties dropped 9 percentage points compared with Trump's share in 2024.
Kansas voters elected a Democrat to the Senate for the first time in 94 years. Democrat Adam Hamilton led in Kansas by about 5 percentage points, and in Texas Democrat James Talarico was ahead of Trump's handpicked candidate, Ken Paxton, by about 12 percentage points.
Among 64 majority-Hispanic counties with Senate contests, the Republican share of the vote was 14 points less than Trump won in 2024. In Hidalgo County, Texas, the Republican share shrank by about 25 percentage points, and in Florida's Miami-Dade County, which Trump won in 2024, it dropped by 10 percentage points.
Republicans had not won a House seat in a district Trump carried by less than 11 percentage points two years ago, according to the report. Democrats also won four seats Trump carried by more than 15 percentage points, including an Indiana district where Democrat J.D. Ford defeated incumbent Victoria Spartz in a district Trump carried by about 17 points. The two Senate races undecided on Wednesday were in Alaska and Mississippi.
Of the 15 Democratic-held seats Republicans had targeted through redistricting, none had changed hands so far; Democrats won nine and six remained undecided on Wednesday morning. In Florida, Democrat Angie Nixon came within 3 percentage points of a Senate seat in a state Trump won by 13 points in 2024.