The Republican Party will retain control of the House of Representatives, according to NBC News.

The GOP is expected to take 235 seats to the Democrats' 200. </s> WASHINGTON: The Republican Party looked set to keep its majority in the US House of Representatives in Tuesday’s election, two television networks projected.

NBC and ABC said early results indicated the party would keep at least 218 of the 435 seats in the chamber. AFP </s> The results are in: Republicans will retain their majority in the Senate after the 2018 midterms, and have even increased their presence in Congress after hard-fought races in Indiana, North Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas.

As was expected, Republicans still hold majority rule in Senate after the 2018 midterms, according to projections from The New York Times, Washington Post, and more. Thirty-five Senate seats were up for election in the midterms, as well as the controlling party for the 65 seats not on the ballot during this cycle. It was more than likely for the GOP to remain in power; even if there was a 50-50 Senate split, Vice President Mike Pence would cast the tie-breaking vote. So…we know how that would go. At the time that win was called, Republicans had 51 seats, gaining three seats; Democrats had 44. Five seats were up for grabs but likely to go to Republicans, according to CNN.

On election night eve, FiveThirtyEight predicted that Republicans had an 82.2% chance of controlling the Senate, and when it came to a state-by-state seat breakdown, the GOP were thought to have a 52 to 48 advantage over Democrats. They actually weren’t that far off. However, it wasn’t a total loss for Democrats. The party made history today by taking majority of the House of Representatives while losing the Senate. Maybe not the result they hoped for, but still, one for the record books.

Since the United States started directly electing senators in 1914, the House of Representatives has never flipped control to a party without that winning party also gaining seats in the Senate. The Democrats’ House win was remarkable, but going into the Senate race, things weren’t in their favor. Democrats were defending 26 of the 35 seats on the ballot — 10 in states that overwhelmingly elected Donald Trump in 2016. </s> Republicans retained their six-year control of both the Senate and House of Representatives, with their losses in the House running to less than a third of the 32 which would have seen them lose control.

The Democratic Senate defeats in Florida, Pennsylvania and Indiana, with one gain in Illinois, mean the institutional gridlock that has bogged down US legislative decision-making for years may have been broken – a Republican-controlled White House will be able to see its legislative programme passed. In the White House there will be someone willing to sign congressional Bills.

Just as significantly, Republicans will now be able to fill the 238-day vacancy on the supreme court vacant since the death of Antonin Scalia in February, which has deprived conservatives of their majority on the court. That restored majority may be copper-fastened for more than a generation as three of the court’s older members are now in or about 80 and likely to retire soon. It could see a major roll-back of social policy advances in areas like abortion and marriage equality.

One-third (34) of the 100 seats in the Senate were up for election – the Republicans this year were defending 24 seats; the Democrats 10. The Republican Party currently controls it 54-46 (including two Independents who caucus with the Democrats). Democrats needed to win at least five seats to win back the majority if Donald Trump was elected – a 52-48 Republican majority was being predicted early this morning.

Among competitive races, only the New Hampshire Senate race remains too close to call. The Louisiana Senate race will go to a December run-off, but Republicans are expected to easily hold that seat.

Democrats narrowly hung on in Nevada, which was their rivals’ only real opportunity for a gain. Wisconsin saw Republican senator Ron Johnson win re-election in a state most of his party wrote off months ago. He defeated Democratic senator Russ Feingold again in a rematch of their 2010 contest.

Mr Trump will not have it all his own way legislatively, however. His fractious relationship with the party’s leadership during the campaign may see some of its members refuse to march in lockstep with their new president, although the younger Tea Party-aligned members who now dominate the party in both houses will be singing off the same hymn sheet on many of Mr Trump’s key campaign promises. Not least, Irish politicians will note with particular regret, on immigration reform.

Republicans will also find, however, that the Senate procedural filibuster which they have used so devastatingly against Democrats to delay or obstruct Obama proposals will now be turned on them. Effectively 60 votes are required out of 100 to get measures through, although we may now see Republican moves to abolish it.

Republicans currently control the US House of Representatives with their largest majority in almost a century – 247 seats to the Democrats’ 188. 218 seats were needed for control of the House, which means the Democratic Party needed to hold all of their seats, and win another 32. At most it was clear this morning they will win 10 seats.

Unlike the Senate, all the House seats were up for re-election. So far Democrats have just seven net gains – two in Florida that Democrats were expecting to win because of court-ordered redistricting. There are currently about 10 seats in the balance, with most going Republican. </s> The US midterm elections occur every two years, in the middle of a President’s term. There are two elements to votes today, the election of members of the House of Representatives and the election of members of the Senate. These two branches are what control the United States Congress. The Republicans and Democrats are vying for a majority of both the House and Senate.

What happens if the Republicans win the House? The House of Representatives is made up of 435 members, and all are up for election in today’s vote. To achieve a majority either party would 218 or more seats. In addition, there are six members who represent Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the US Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia. These six representatives cannot vote in the full house but can sit and vote in congressional committees and introduce legislation.

Should the President’s party, the Republicans, win control of the House, passing legislation would remain relatively easy for President Donald Trump. If opposing party the Democrats achieve a majority, Trump would find his power lessened as any new bills or amendments to current bills would first have to be approved by the House. According to polling site FiveThirtyEight, the President’s party has a one in eight - 12 percent - chance of retaining control of the House. What happens if the Republicans win the Senate? Each state, regardless of size, has two senators representing them in the Senate.

The Senate shares with the House of Representatives the responsibility for all lawmaking within the United States. For an act of Congress to be valid, both houses must approve an identical document. Senators have the power to decide on major presidential appointments, and also should an impeachment trial come to pass it occurs in the Senate. As well as this, treaties with other nations must be agreed by two-thirds of the Senate. </s> All 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives were up for election on Tuesday, and who controls the House now after the 2018 midterms will determine whether or not the next two years on Capitol Hill will be roughly the same as the last two. It looks like business won't continue as usual though, as Democrats took back the House, CNN and NBC News projected. Fox News has also projected a House takeback for Democrats.

Political analysts at FiveThirtyEight predicted ahead of the midterm election that the Democratic Party would win the majority after eight years in the minority. In order to do so, they needed to flip 24 GOP seats, and about 48 were considered competitive by The New York Times. More than 30 Republicans didn't seek re-election, as The Times notes, though many of their seats were expected to remain in GOP hands.

The record number of women running for office this year, along with an extremely divisive president, played a big role in shifting many House races from Republican strongholds to tossups. After nearly 500 women entered House primaries, 237 advanced to a midterm general election, by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University's count. The vast majority ran as Democrats, and just 22 percent of the women candidates who won a primary were Republicans.

NBC News was one of the first outlets to project that the Democratic Party would regain control of the House, something the party had not done in eight years. A party needs to control 218 seats in the House for a majority, the network noted, and some of the crucial elections that allowed NBC News to call a Democratic majority included ones in Minnesota, Colorado, Florida, New York, Virginia, Texas, and Michigan.

The Democrats' recapture of the House will give the party new power to challenge President Trump for the next two years of his presidency. Prior to the midterm elections, Republicans controlled both the House and the Senate. CNN, NBC, and Fox have also projected that Republicans will hold on to their majority in the Senate, establishing a politically-split Congress until the 2020 elections. The GOP control of the Senate will continue to lift Trump's agenda, Fox News reported, allowing Republicans to have the final word on all federal judicial appointments, which includes nominations to the Supreme Court.

But with Democrats in the House, the party will now have the ability to stop or delay several things that Trump has repeatedly pushed for, like funding for his controversial border wall and a recently-proposed middle-class tax cut. As Fox News noted, even if Democrats don't block the president on his legislative goals, they can still squeeze concessions out of the Republicans on hot-button issues like immigration before bills turn into law.

The Democrats' majority presence in the House also means they will have to select a new speaker of the House, a position that Nancy Pelosi held from 2007 to 2011. But with the sea of new faces and the theme of change, there's the possibility the party will look beyond Pelosi for the job this time around.

The two years to come will surely be different from the two that preceded it, and with an injection of progressive newcomers in an incredibly hostile political climate, it's anyone's guess what's to come. </s> TXT} Nov 6 (Reuters) - Voters on Tuesday went to the polls in congressional elections for 35 of 100 seats in the U.S. Senate. The Democratic Party needs to pick up two seats to wrest control of the chamber from the Republican Party. The following is a tally of seats that will change parties, based on projections from media outlets and data provider DDHQ. State Winning party Indiana Republican North Dakota Republican Missouri Republican (Reporting by Jason Lange and Michelle Price) </s> The Republican Party is maintaining its control of the House of Representatives, exceeding the majority of 218 seats needed on Tuesday night, according to media projections.

The GOP has gained 238 seats as opposed to Democrats that picked up 193 seats as of 3:10 p.m. on Wednesday. Before Tuesday, Republicans shared 247 seats and Democrats held 168 seats.

Even though the GOP has pulled off a string of victories across the country and solidified its base in the chamber, the uncertainty hangs over the party’s future: the party needs to grapple on the issue of whether the party would be able to unite after its Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump brought his polarizing brand of politics not only into his campaign trail but also to the party.

A New York Times/CBS News poll shows 39 percent of Republicans responded Trump’s candidacy has been good for the party while 41 percent bashed Trump has hurt the GOP. The fracture of the GOP is more severe compared to Democrats that 17 percent of Democratic supporters said Clinton was bad for the party.

Still the electoral map stays red, the color of Republicans, for extensive areas from the Deep South to the high plains. In some districts, Trump has given a boost to congressional candidates as mostly white constituents have been invigorated by the presence of the presidential nominee, according to an analysis by Roll Coll, a congressional publication. </s> Midterm election voting will be taking place tomorrow on November 6, as the country decides the composition of Congress. The battle is between the Democrat and Republican parties, for the House of Representatives and the Senate, the two chambers of Congress. In the currently Republican heavy House of Representatives, each one of the 435 seats are up for reelection and a further 35 are available in the Senate. This gives the Democrats a chance to flip Congress and grasp a majority for themselves, which could ultimately put a hold on Donald Trump’s powers.

Who will win in the Senate? The Senate race is the less difficult to call of the two Congress chambers, as only 35 seats are up for reelection. This means only a third of the 100 total seats are up for a replacement. Of these seats, 23 Democrat seats are safe from election and 42 Republican seats are safe. Turning over the incumbent Senate majority is an unlikely outcome when Democrats are defending many more seats.

At the moment Republican dominance is reflected in the polls too, as they are higher billed for Senate positions over the Democrats. In order to win control of the Senate, the Democrats will need to capture over 50 seats, making the majority. Pollsters FiveThirtyEight gathered a selection of different polls to forecast the possible composition of the Senate. Their findings pointed towards an 85.6 percent chance of a Republican majority in the Senate come election day. The chances of the Democrats gaining a majority are on 14.4 percent, but chances are also on the party gaining at least two seats from this round of elections.

Who will win in the house of Representatives? The House of Representatives has a full 435 seats up for reelection, meaning the entire composition of the chamber is up for replacement. Either party could claim a majority if they had the power behind them, which should have made the race a close call. Early voting has revealed a massive turnout for the 2018 midterms and this has come in favour of the Democrats. A partnership between USA TODAY and Suffolk University in polling the midterm elections have found large voter turnout is due to Donald Trump’s leadership.
The Republican Party retains control of the House and Senate.