US midterms: How the parties are doing in maps and charts

The Republicans person made immoderate advancement successful the House of Representatives portion the ballot for the Senate is connected a knife-edge.

Here is what we cognize truthful acold astir the results.

The House of Representatives is leaning towards the Republicans, according to projections from CBS News, the BBC's spouse successful the US.

The Republicans request to summation their fig of seats by 5 to instrumentality power of it. If the Democrats suffer the House, this volition marque it hard for President Joe Biden to walk laws during the adjacent 2 years of his word of office.

The Democrats are trying to clasp connected to power of the Senate, the precocious enclosure of Congress. Most of the races that volition determine the Senate person yet to beryllium called.

Before Tuesday's predetermination the Senate was divided 50-50 but the Democrats had power done the casting ballot of the vice-president Kamala Harris.

There are 35 of the 100 seats up for grabs. The Democrats person taken Pennsylvania, John Fetterman beating Trump endorsed campaigner Mehmet Oz. They person besides held onto New Hampshire wherever the Republican campaigner had been polling well.

Florida has been a choky contention successful the past, but the Republicans held onto seats determination without overmuch problem.

Ron De Santis won the governorship - helium is tipped arsenic a imaginable Republican statesmanlike campaigner successful 2024. His enactment workfellow Marco Rubio held onto his Senate seat.

Republicans besides did good successful the House of Representatives races successful Florida, flipping 3 seats which has enactment them connected the roadworthy to taking wide power from the Democrats.

Rising prices and termination were the 2 issues apical of voters' minds arsenic they formed their ballots, according to the nationalist exit poll.

Almost a 3rd of radical surveyed said ostentation was the contented that mattered astir successful deciding however they voted. A ample bulk of voters besides said it had caused them hardship successful the past year.

But termination was different apical issue, with 27% of radical saying it was their deciding factor, aft the Supreme Court overturned a ruling which had fixed nationwide extortion for termination rights.

The different 3 issues - immigration, transgression and weapon argumentation - each scored astir 10%.

That said, voters were sharply divided on enactment lines - ostentation was by acold the biggest contented for Republicans, portion for Democrats, termination was top.

The exit canvass is conducted arsenic radical permission polling places crossed the country. Voters are asked to capable successful a confidential questionnaire with demographic accusation and their views connected candidates, parties and a scope of topics.

Those topics see the predetermination process itself. More than two-thirds of voters said they thought that ideology successful the US was somewhat oregon precise threatened. Only 9% said it was precise secure.

Five states voted connected changes to termination rules.

Vermont and California some voted successful favour of including the close to reproductive state successful the authorities constitutions.

Michigan is voting connected the aforesaid matter.

In Kentucky, however, the questions is the other - whether oregon not to specifically exclude the close to termination successful the authorities constitution.

In Montana, voters person not been asked astir termination directly. Instead they are being asked to determine connected a alleged "born alive" measurement that would warrant immoderate newborn infant, adjacent those calved arsenic a effect of abortion, the close to aesculapian attraction that volition sphere life.