Midterm elections 2022 full#
Mark Kelly won his first full six-year term against Republican challenger Blake Masters Friday, winning (with about 20 percent of the vote left to tally) 51 percent of the vote to Masters’s 46 percent, according to the Associated Press. The win of Cortez Masto, the first Latina elected to the Senate, in a close race in a battleground state, showed the lasting strength of the Democrats in a state where 30 percent of the voting population are Latino and more than 77 percent of the voters are working-class.Īrizona: In a race that doesn’t appear to have been quite as close as expected, Democrats managed to hold onto Arizona. Catherine Cortez Masto defeated Republican Secretary of State Adam Laxalt by a close margin of 0.7 percentage points, according to the Associated Press, which sealed the control of the Senate for the Democratic party. Democrats will likely continue to seek to capitalize on scandals over Walker’s previous affairs and revelations he had paid for abortions despite saying on the campaign trail he was staunchly anti-abortion.
Expect an enormous blitz of campaigning and ad spending in the state over the next few weeks. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) in office and clinched the majority for Democrats. That means Georgia could again decide control of the Senate, following runoff elections in 2020 that put Warnock and Sen. Raphael Warnock will face Republican Herschel Walker in a December runoff. Georgia: After neither candidate won more than 50 percent of the vote, incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock nor GOP candidate Herschel Walker were able to accomplish - the race goes to a runoff. Under Georgia law, if no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the vote outright - something neither Democrat Sen. That also means Georgia’s runoff election on December 6 won’t change the majority control of the Senate. With Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto defeating her Republican challenger Adam Laxalt in the Nevada Senate race by a very close - 0.7 percentage points - margin, the Democratic party secured the 50-seat majority, defying the odds of Republicans winning full control of Congress. Exactly how much of a majority the GOP has will become clearer once California finishes its tally, something that could take weeks to do. That could make maintaining cohesion in a caucus that features a broad spectrum of ideologies, ranging from moderates to members of the alt-right, difficult. It still appears probable that Republicans will pick up those five seats, but it’s increasingly clear that the big majority some in the party were expecting won’t materialize. It takes 218 seats to win a majority in the House, and the GOP only needed a net gain of five to take the majority. Polling leading up to the election heavily suggested a strong night for Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Here is what we know so far about the two chambers of Congress.
With many ballots yet to be counted in key contests, party control of the House is still up in the air. Democrats were able to maintain control of the Senate after winning the Nevada Senate seat. The November 8 midterm congressional elections ended up being far closer than many political analysts expected.
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