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Who's won the House? How about the Senate? Visual guide to red-blue balance


With the President-elect Donald Trump winning the White House, a majority in the Senate, and a majority in the House, Republicans can control the legislative agenda – as they did in the first two years of Trump's first term.

Here are the latest balance of power results:

Republicans regain the majority in the 2024 battle for Senate

Republicans took over control of the upper chamber with big wins in Ohio, Montana and Texas.

In Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R) defeated challenger Colin Allred (D). In Ohio Bernie Moreno (R) defeated incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown (D). In Montana Tim Sheehy (R), ousted incumbent Jon Tester (D).

In total, 34 seats where up for election. Here is how the seats are distributed:

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On the Democrat side, Elissa Slotkin (D) in Michigan narrowly defeated Mike Rogers (R). And for the first time, the Senate will have two Black women with Sen.-elect Lisa Blunt Rochester (D) representing Delaware and Sen.-elect Angela Alsobrooks (D) of Maryland.

2024 elections battle for House of Representatives

All 435 seats in the House are up for grabs every midterm and presidential election year.

Prior to the election Republicans held control the lower chamber by only two seats, will they grow that lead? Here is how the seats are distributed so far:

Election results could take days until they are called, experts have warned.

Some states, like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, can’t begin processing absentee and mail-in ballots until Election Day.

Results for the 2020 election won by President Joe Biden took four days, while it took 35 days to announce George W. Bush had won the White House in 2000.

Read up on this year's election at vote.usatoday.com.

Contributing: Riley Beggin, Paste BN