By Brad Heath and Jason Lange
WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) – Republicans suffered a sweeping midterm rout on Tuesday, losing control of Congress as voters abandoned President Donald Trump’s party nearly everywhere, from Hispanic strongholds to deep-red territory Democrats had not cracked in generations.
Democrats’ sweeping gains became clear on Wednesday as more ballots were counted and races were decided. Here are seven numbers that show the scale of the Republican defeat:
99
The Democratic wave covered huge swaths of the country. Republicans lost ground in 99% of the roughly 2,200 counties where most votes had been counted by Wednesday morning, according to tallies compiled by Reuters and USA Today, which are partnering this year to collect live election results. The party lost votes in rich and poor areas, in cities and in suburbs.
The losses in most places were dramatic: Across the counties tallied, Republicans’ share of the vote fell 8 percentage points compared with Trump’s share in 2024.
94
Kansas voters elected a Democrat to the Senate for the first time in 94 years. That race, and others in states where Democrats also had not won statewide races in a generation, showed how decisively the party swept through Republican bastions. The results were not especially close. Democrat Adam Hamilton was leading in Kansas by about 5 percentage points. In Texas, Democrat James Talarico was ahead of Trump’s handpicked candidate, Ken Paxton, by about 12 percentage points.
64
Every majority-Hispanic county that had nearly finished counting swung heavily in Democrats’ direction. Among the 64 such counties with Senate contests, the Republican share of the vote was 14 percentage points less than what Trump won in 2024, a considerably larger swing than in the rest of the country.
In Hidalgo County, Texas, along the southern US border with Mexico, the Republican share of the vote shrank by about 25 percentage points. In Florida’s Miami-Dade County, which Trump won in 2024, the Republican share of the vote dropped by 10 percentage points.
11
So far, Republicans have not won a House of Representatives seat in a district that Trump carried by less than 11 percentage points two years ago. That meant the Democratic wave was deep enough to sweep away Republican lawmakers who might normally have sailed to reelection.
Beyond that, Democrats have won four seats that Trump carried by more than 15 percentage points. Among them was a district in Indiana where Democratic challenger J.D. Ford easily defeated incumbent Victoria Spartz. Trump carried the district by about 17 percentage points.
The two Senate races that remained undecided on Wednesday were in Alaska and Mississippi, states Trump carried by double-digit margins two years ago.
10
Republicans had hoped to cement their House majority by redrawing district boundaries in a handful of states to make them more favorable to the party’s lawmakers. That effort has so far fallen short. Of the 15 Democratic-held seats Republicans had targeted, none has changed hands. Democrats won 10 of the seats and five others remained undecided on Wednesday morning.
THREE
In Florida, Democratic socialist Angie Nixon came within 3 percentage points of winning a Senate seat in Trump’s adopted home state and a key source of his electoral power. Trump won Florida by 13 percentage points when he was reelected two years ago. Still, on a night when Democrats dominated in one Republican-controlled state after another, the shift in Florida’s votes toward Democrats was half what it was in Texas, South Carolina and Kansas.
ZERO
Republicans have not won any of the House or Senate races that were widely seen as competitive before voting began on Tuesday. Democrats have won more than two dozen competitive House races, plus a handful that were thought to have favored Republicans.
(Editing by Rod Nickel and Edmund Klamann)
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