Democrats win both chambers of Congress in US midterm sweep

Democrats have won control of both chambers of Congress in the US midterm elections, according to projections reported by the Associated Press and Reuters. AP said the party flipped at least seven Senate seats and more than two dozen House seats, ending Republican control of Capitol Hill. Several races were still being counted, so final seat totals remained unsettled.

The new majority can block legislation and nominations, control committee agendas and open investigations into President Donald Trump’s administration. Reuters reported a broad swing away from Republicans across nearly all of the roughly 2,100 counties with comparable results. AP said voters cited living costs, inflation, the Iran war and concerns about corruption among their priorities. Those findings describe the electoral climate; they do not by themselves assign a single cause to millions of individual votes.

Searches connected to Senate midterm results reached a 1K+ four-hour bucket in Britain, while related US-election queries reached 2K+ in Canada and India. Those regional surges show that readers are asking who controls Congress, but they are not evidence for the result. The answer comes from the election counts and independent projections: Democrats have secured both chambers, with exact margins still to be certified.