US midterms deliver Congress to Democrats as Republicans lose Senate and House
In the United States midterm elections, the Democratic Party took both the Senate and the House of Representatives from the Republicans, ending Republican majorities in each chamber of Congress. Control of the legislature therefore shifted in a single nationwide vote, with Democrats holding the two houses that write federal law and oversee the executive.
Al Jazeera’s AJLabs “By the Numbers” presentation maps that swing across the country and shows how the results reallocate power in Congress. The maps are meant to make the scale of the change visible: not only that Democrats gained the Senate and the House, but where the midterm wave registered and how those outcomes translate into who sets the agenda in Washington.
For readers outside the United States, the practical meaning is institutional. With Republicans no longer holding either chamber, committee chairs, the legislative calendar, and the ability to pass or block bills move with the new Democratic majorities. The AJLabs graphics frame that transfer as a mapped, nationwide reallocation of congressional control rather than as a single race.
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