Republicans heading for a majority in the House of Representatives
Arizona and Nevada senate races will decide the majority in the Senate
The results
of US midterm elections are still pouring in. Republican Party is heading for a
majority in the House of Representatives and likely to win 219 seats two seats
more than the required majority of 218 seats. The Democratic Party might end up with 216 seats. The final results
might be available in next few days.
There are currently 35 uncalled House races,
Democrats lead in the vote count in 25 of them while Republicans lead in 10. Republicans
need to win 9 more seats to reach the 218 needed to control the House as they
already won 209 seats, Democrats need to win 27 more seats to reach 218 as they
are trailing behind after winning 191 seats so far.
The results
of senate seats in Arizona and Nevada will decide the control of Senate. The
Democratic Party still has the chance to keep majority in the Senate. The
senate seat in Georgia is likely to be decided in the run-off in December as no
candidate succeeded to get 50% votes.
If Democrats
succeeded to defend both their seats in Arizona and Nevada then they will
maintain their majority in Senate. The votes are still being counted in both
states.
Those two western states – perpetual battlegrounds in presidential years – were still too early to call as of early Thursday morning, while a third Democratic-held seat, Georgia, will advance to a December runoff, CNN projects.
Republicans need to
pick off two Democratic seats to win the majority. As ballots continue to be
counted across the country, Republicans appear to be slowly inching toward the
218 seats that would deliver them a House majority, albeit one that’s much
narrower than they’d hoped.
Arizona
Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly was maintaining an edge over Republican Blake
Masters as of early Thursday morning, while Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine
Cortez Masto was trailing Republican Adam Laxalt. CNN had estimated late
Wednesday that about 600,000 votes remained to be counted across the Grand
Canyon State and about 160,000 votes remained to be counted in Nevada.
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