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Biggest story is that the Democrats gained seven Senate seats, count is currently 54-44 Dems. Dems picked up Senators in Maine, Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Ohio, Iowa and Kansas.
Democrats picked up 39 seats (so far) in the House (so far) 247-152, and trending against Republicans. Is it the biggest net gain ever? It barely cracks the top 10 over the last 100 years, right behind Bush’s loss of 31 seats in 2006. Leader was Roosevelt’s loss of 81 seats in 1938, followed by Barack Obama’s loss of 64 seats in 2010, his first midterm election. Stanford alum Herbert Hoover had a loss of 52 seats in 1930 as the Depression picked up steam.
There has been a net gain of +4 Governors for the Democrats, who now hold a gubernatorial lead of 28-20.
More election results to come.
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Right now, I’m pretty comfortable saying the Democrats have picked up 39 seats in the House. NBC News is projecting a 43 seat Republican loss. This combined loss of 50 House and Senate seats would rank Trump as having the 10th greatest loss in 25 mid-term elections over the last 100 years. Largest are as follows:
Ten largest midterm losses, 1926–2026
Negative numbers represent seats lost by the president’s party.
Rank Year President Party House Senate Combined loss 1 1938 Franklin D. Roosevelt D −72 −7 79 2 2010 Barack Obama D −64 −6 70 3 1946 Harry S. Truman D −55 −12 67 4 1994 Bill Clinton D −54 −8 62 5= 1930 Herbert Hoover R −52 −8 60 5= 1958 Dwight Eisenhower R −48 −12 60 7 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt D −44 −9 53 8= 1966 Lyndon B. Johnson D −48 −4 52 8= 1974 Gerald Ford R −48 −4 52 10* 2026 Donald Trump R −43* −7* 50*
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