Updated November 10, 2022 at 11:17 PM ET
Control of the House and Senate is still not yet known. Either party needs to win two of three of the remaining competitive seats to win control of the Senate. And it could all come down to a Georgia runoff next month.
Republicans are still on a path to win control of the House, but by smaller margins than they were hoping. Democrats have a longshot chance of retaining control, but they would need some races where Republicans are leading to shift in their favor for that to happen.
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Here's where things stand, by the numbers (as of Thursday, 10 p.m. ET):
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Democrats are +1 with their flip of the Pennsylvania Senate race. That means Republicans need to hold on in Nevada, where they are leading, and flip either Arizona, which has not yet been called, or Georgia next month.
To hold the Senate, Democrats would need to hold on in Arizona, where they are leading, and either make up ground in Nevada, which is possible, or win next month's Georgia runoff.
What's left
Georgia: Incumbent Raphael Warnock (D) and Republican challenger Herschel Walker (R) are headed to a Dec. 6 runoff because neither surpassed 50% on the ballot. There is now 99% in in that race, and Warnock missed the threshold by just under 23,000 votes. There were more than 3.9 million total votes cast.
Arizona: Incumbent Mark Kelly's (D) lead has increased by almost 20,000 votes in the last several hours. He's currently ahead of challenger Blake Masters (R), 52% to 46% with 75% of the vote in. Counting is ongoing and might not be finalized until early next week, according to Bill Gates, a Republican, who is chairman of the Maricopa Board of Supervisors. But that doesn't mean the race couldn't be called earlier. Masters is going to need a significant share, perhaps well north of 60%, of the remaining vote in the state. Maricopa County now has about 330,000 votes left to count — another tranche of about 60,000 votes is expected Friday. Kelly has been winning Maricopa with 53% of the vote, but Pima County, where Tucson is, also has about 114,000 votes left — and Kelly has been winning there with 62%.
Nevada: Adam Laxalt (R) leads incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto (D) by now less than 1 percentage point, or about 8,000 votes, with 86% of the vote in. Laxalt's lead since last night has declined more than 15,000 votes. Expect further tightening with a potential path to a lead for Cortez Masto. About 95,000 votes are still out between Clark (Las Vegas) and Washoe (Reno) counties. Cortez Masto has won 51% of the vote out of Clark and 50% of the vote in Washoe, but has been outpacing that in the last day. Expect this to be very close in the end. We may not know the final result for days. Nevada is accepting mail-in votes postmarked by Election Day and received up to Saturday at 5 p.m. local time — and voters also have a couple of days to "cure" ballots, if needed. State law allows, for example, if a mail ballot is opened and someone's signature isn't there or doesn't appear to match, that voter would be contacted to correct it.
Alaska : There's been little change here over the last several hours. Incumbent Lisa Murkowski trails Kelly Tshibaka by less than 2 percentage points, or just under 3,000 votes, with 80% in. A lot will change. If neither candidate gets above 50%, this goes to a ranked-choice re-tabulation Nov. 23, and Murkowski would likely be favored to win that. This would not be a flip, because both candidates are Republicans. But it will count toward Republicans' total, so they are effectively at 49 seats.
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For control of the House, either party needs to reach 218 seats. Republicans need a net of 5 seats to take control. They are on track to do that, BUT likely only with a 1- to 7-seat majority at this point.
NOTE: Please keep in mind that these numbers are fluid and will change as votes continue to roll in. See the latest results here.
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