Live updates — Midterm elections: Several key races are still too close to call, leaving control of U.S. Senate, House up in the air - CNBC

The margin betwixt Democrats and Republicans winning House seats volition proceed to constrictive arsenic section precincts proceed counting votes from Tuesday's midterm elections, NBC News predicts.

Republicans are projected to prime up 9 caller seats, giving them 222 seats and Democrats 213, according to NBC News. However, those totals haven't been confirmed yet arsenic states proceed tallying votes.

— Chelsey Cox

Voters successful Kentucky person rejected a law amendment that would person efficaciously shielded the state's termination prohibition from ineligible challenge, NBC News projects.

About 52% of those who formed ballots rejected an amendment that said there's nary close to an termination nether the authorities constitution.

Kentucky banned termination instantly aft the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade successful June done a alleged trigger instrumentality passed by the legislature. The amendment enactment earlier voters connected Tuesday was an effort by anti-abortion activists to support the prohibition from ineligible challenges successful authorities court.

The nonaccomplishment of the ballot measurement indicates that determination are limits to anti-abortion authorities adjacent successful blimpish states. Kentucky has not voted for a Democratic statesmanlike campaigner since 1996.

-- Spencer Kimball

Stocks were broadly little connected Wednesday arsenic investors kept an oculus connected cardinal governmental races that stay undecided.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average shed 320 points, oregon astir 1%. The S&P 500 dropped by astir 0.9%.

Wall Street was expecting Republican gains successful the midterms to pb to a divided government. Many investors see a divided successful Washington, D.C., to beryllium beneficial for stocks due to the fact that that concern limits imaginable regulatory oregon taxation changes.

The large marketplace averages person risen for three-straight days, truthful Wednesday's declines could beryllium successful portion owed to the uncertainty astir Congress starring traders to hedge their bets.

To beryllium sure, determination are non-political factors besides weighing connected stocks. Disney's 12% diminution aft an net miss is peculiarly damaging to the Dow.

— Jesse Pound

President Joe Biden plans to sermon the midterm results astatine the White House astatine 4 p.m. ET contiguous successful what volition apt beryllium a spot of a triumph thigh for Democrats, who held connected to acold much seats successful the House and Senate than expected.

"Democracy doesn't hap by accident. We person to defend, strengthen, and renew it," Biden wrote successful a tweet pursuing the docket change. "I'll person much to accidental this afternoon, but acknowledgment to the canvass workers and officials that worked into the nighttime to safeguard our ineffable close to vote. And the millions who made their voices heard."

Biden volition talk from the State Dining Room and instrumentality questions pursuing his remarks.

— Emma Kinery

The hotly contested Georgia Senate contention volition caput to a runoff betwixt Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican erstwhile NFL subordinate Herschel Walker, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said.

Since neither campaigner volition garner the 50% of the ballot needed to clinch the spot outright nether authorities rules, helium said the 2 Senate hopefuls volition caput to a Dec. 6 runoff.

"Right present we person little than 20,000 full votes inactive retired to beryllium counted. That's not capable to alteration the race. So this is headed for a runoff," Raffensperger said connected "The Brian Kilmeade Show."

The Georgia race, 1 of the astir competitory successful the country, could assistance find power of the Senate, on with remaining races successful Arizona and Nevada. Republicans request to triumph 2 of those contests, against Democratic incumbents, to triumph a bulk successful the Senate.

The beingness of Libertarian campaigner Chase Oliver, a 37-year-old Atlanta businessman, helped to contradict Warnock and Walker the bulk they needed to triumph outright. With 96% of the ballot counted Wednesday morning, Warnock had won 49.2% of the ballot to Walker's 48.7%, according to NBC News. Oliver garnered astir 2.1% of the vote.

— Christina Wilkie

Incumbent Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin is projected by NBC News to decision his Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes.

Johnson had 50.5% of the votes, portion Barnes, the state's lieutenant governor, had 49.3%, with 94% of the ballots counted.

Three different states person yet to find the winners of the elections for U.S. Senate: Arizona, Georgia and Nevada. In each 3 of those races, Democrats are incumbents.

Republicans request to triumph 2 of the outstanding seats to get bulk power of the Senate successful 2023. Pennsylvania's unfastened Senate seat, which is presently held by a Republican, was won by a Democrat.. GOP campaigner Dr. Mehmet Oz conceded his nonaccomplishment to Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman earlier Wednesday morning.

Before Johnson's triumph was projected, helium said successful a connection that helium had clinched the race.

"Truth has prevailed implicit lies and the authorities of idiosyncratic destruction," Johnson said.

"I privation to convey my household and everyone who supported maine and worked truthful hard to prevention this U.S. Senate seat," helium said. "I volition bash everything I tin to assistance marque things amended for Wisconsinites and to heal and unify our country."

— Dan Mangan

Control of the U.S. Senate successful 2023 could instrumentality days, and possibly weeks, to resolve, arsenic votes are inactive being counted successful 3 states.

Because Democrat John Fetterman flipped the GOP-held Pennsylvania Senate seat, Republicans request to triumph 2 of the races for the Democratic-held seats successful Arizona, Georgia oregon Nevada to triumph Senate control.

Democrats request to prevail successful 2 of those 3 races to clasp their majority.

Georgia could beryllium headed to a run-off predetermination connected Dec. 6 if nary Senate campaigner cracks 50% of the ballot successful coming days.

With 96% of the votes counted successful Georgia arsenic of this morning, incumbent Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock had 49.2% of the vote, with his Republican challenger Herschel Walker holding 48.7%. Libertarian campaigner Chase Oliver had 2.1% of the vote.

In Arizona, a overmuch smaller percent of the votes were in, which means it could instrumentality respective days much to resoluteness the contention betwixt Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democrat, and his Republican challenger, Blake Masters. Kelly had 51.9% of the vote, and Masters had 45.9%.

But conscionable 67% of the ballots had been tabulated successful Arizona, wherever galore voters submitted ballots early, earlier Election Day.

Ballots that were submitted astatine polling places connected Tuesday volition instrumentality days to person their signatures verified and counted.

In Nevada, Republican challenger Adam Laxalt had 49.9% of the vote, compared with the 47.2% of the ballot held by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, the incumbent Democrat.

But conscionable 80% of the ballot successful the authorities was in.

And due to the fact that astir of the ballots volition beryllium mail-in votes, which person 4 days to get if they are postmarked by Election Day, it could instrumentality respective days, if not more, to get a last result.

— Dan Mangan

Dr. Mehmet Oz called John Fetterman to concede helium mislaid the U.S. Senate predetermination successful Pennsylvania, and aboriginal issued a connection urging "everyone to enactment down their partisan swords and absorption connected getting the occupation done."

The telephone by the Republican Oz came hours aft NBC projected Fetterman, the Democratic lieutenant governor, arsenic the victor successful the Keystone state.

With 94% of the votes in, Fetterman had 50.3% of the vote, portion Oz had 47.2%.

Fetterman's triumph was a large 1 for Democrats — who are battling to clasp their razor-thin bulk successful the Senate — due to the fact that the spot is presently held by Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican.

In his statement, Oz said, "This greeting I called John Fetterman and congratulated him. I privation him and his household each the best, some personally and arsenic our adjacent United States Senator. Campaigning passim our large Commonwealth was the grant of a lifetime, and I volition cherish the memories and the radical I met."

"We are facing large problems arsenic a state and we request everyone to enactment down their partisan swords and absorption connected getting the occupation done," Oz said.

"With bold enactment that brings radical together, we tin make existent change. As a Doctor, I ever bash my champion to assistance others heal. That's wherefore I ran for Senate. I anticipation we statesman the healing process arsenic a federation soon."

— Dan Mangan

Former President Donald Trump hosted an election night enactment Tuesday astatine Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort, and invited a afloat excavation of reporters to papers what helium hoped would beryllium a Republican landslide.

But arsenic returns began to travel successful Tuesday evening, the Republican rout driven by Trump's chosen candidates ne'er materialized.

In 1 of the country's astir high-profile races, Trump's handpicked Senate campaigner successful Pennsylvania, Dr. Mehmet Oz, lost to Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, according to NBC News. The effect outgo the GOP a Senate seat.

In Michigan, Trump-endorsed Republican Tudor Dixon lost a gubernatorial race, portion 2020 predetermination denier Kristina Karamo mislaid her Trump-backed bid for caput of state, NBC projected.

In Arizona, Kari Lake, a erstwhile newscaster turned gubernatorial campaigner who is 1 of Trump's astir high-profile picks, trailed Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs successful a contention that NBC considered excessively aboriginal to call. Trump-endorsed Senate hopeful Blake Masters, who is challenging Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, besides lagged successful a contention that NBC said was excessively aboriginal to call.

— Christina Wilkie

Voters successful Michigan, California and Vermont person amended their authorities constitutions to support termination arsenic a right, NBC News projects.

Michigan volition go a important harmless haven for reproductive rights successful the Midwest, a portion wherever termination entree is shrinking arsenic states specified arsenic Indiana and Ohio person passed precise restrictive laws.

Although termination was ne'er nether menace successful wide California and Vermont, the authorities law amendments volition support entree for aboriginal generations.

In blimpish Kentucky, voters were asked whether the authorities constitution should beryllium amended to accidental that it does not support termination arsenic a right.

The votes are inactive being counted and NBC News has not made a telephone yet. So far, however, 51.4% of Kentuckians person voted against the anti-abortion measurement portion 48.6% person voted successful favour with 82% of the ballot in.

— Spencer Kimball

Ballots are inactive being tabulated from Tuesday's midterm elections leaving which enactment controls either enclosure of Congress uncertain, but 1 happening is clear: The Republican "red wave" did not materialize.

Venture capitalist J.D. Vance scored an aboriginal triumph for Republicans, retaining Ohio's vacated U.S. Senate spot for the GOP by beating U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan. But Democrats saw captious wins successful Pennsylvania wherever Lt. Gov. John Fetterman flipped a U.S. Senate spot bluish by defeating TV property Dr. Mehmet Oz. Pennsylvania's Democratic lawyer general, Josh Shapiro, won the governorship, beating authorities Sen. Doug Mastriano who attended the Jan. 6, 2021, onslaught connected the Capitol.

Unlike the 2020 election, Pennsylvania was not among the past to beryllium called, but respective different captious races stay undetermined Wednesday morning. Senate races successful Nevada and Arizona are inactive excessively adjacent to call, with Georgia's U.S. Senate contention looking apt to spell into a December runoff. Neither enactment has claimed power of the U.S. House with respective seats near uncalled. Republicans are inactive much apt to instrumentality power of the House majority, but it won't beryllium with the margins they had hoped.

"Definitely not a Republican wave, that is for darn sure," said Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina connected NBC News connected Tuesday evening. "A question would person been, like, (winning) New Hampshire and Colorado."

— Emma Kinery