Partisan control of the House remains unknown with 14 races uncalled - NBC News

WASHINGTON — Races for more than a twelve House seats remained uncalled arsenic of Monday night, leaving governmental power of the enclosure chartless astir a week aft voting successful the 2022 midterms wide predetermination cycle concluded.

Most of the 14 House seats that NBC News has not called are successful California. So far, Democrats person been elected to 206 seats and Republicans person won 215. A enactment needs to unafraid 218 to clasp the bulk successful the House.

In California, wherever ballots tin beryllium counted if they were postmarked by Election Day and arrived wrong 7 days, 11 races bash not yet person a winner. That includes the competitory contention betwixt GOP Rep. David Valadao and his Democratic challenger Rudy Salas to correspond the state's 22nd Congressional District. The contention betwixt Democratic Rep. Mike Levin and his Republican opponent, Brian Baryott, successful the 49th Congressional District had not been resolved, and Democratic Rep. Katie Porter is looking to fend disconnected Republican Scott Baugh successful the 47th Congressional District.

States that person 1 uncalled contention are Alaska, Colorado and Maine.

Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola, for example, is seeking to again defeat Republican Sarah Palin, the GOP's 2012 vice statesmanlike nominee, to correspond the state's azygous House seat. Peltola beat Palin successful a peculiar predetermination astatine the extremity of August.

In Arizona, NBC News projected precocious Monday that Republicans flipped the 6th Congressional District seat, which represents the country successful the southeastern portion of the authorities wherever Democrat Kirsten Engel ran against Republican Juan Ciscomani.

Far-right GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert could triumph re-election to Colorado's 3rd Congressional District spot contempt initially trailing Democrat Adam Frisch past week successful what coiled up being an unexpectedly adjacent race successful the rural, occidental information of the state.

The latest figures suggest Republicans clasp the advantage. NBC News estimates Republicans volition clasp 220 seats, portion Democrats volition power 215 seats, with a plus-or-minus 3-seat borderline of error.

Over the weekend, Democrats clinched the bulk successful the Senate for the adjacent Congress, with the re-election of Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto successful Nevada and Mark Kelly successful Arizona. Georgia volition clasp a Dec. 6 runoff due to the fact that neither Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, nor Republican Herschel Walker got a bulk of the vote.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has been preparing for a GOP takeover, announcing teams past week to oversee the transition. Members of the House Republican Conference are acceptable to clasp their closed-door predetermination to prime their leaders for the caller Congress connected Tuesday. A ceremonial and authoritative ballot for talker takes spot connected the level erstwhile the caller Congress convenes.

More than 60 salient conservatives, however, including erstwhile Trump White House main of unit Mark Meadows and activistic Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, are calling on House and Senate GOP enactment elections to beryllium delayed until aft Georgia's Senate runoff.