Democrats won the offices. Ballot measures split.

The scoreboard

Five takeaways

1. Control of Congress. Democrats flipped 7 Senate seats — Texas, Kansas, South Carolina, Iowa, Ohio, North Carolina and Maine — and 5 governorships (Georgia, Iowa, Nevada, Ohio and Texas), and won a House majority. Alaska and Mississippi’s Senate races and the Alaska and Kansas governor races were still uncalled. 66 of the 71 Senate and governor races moved toward Democrats compared with the 2024 presidential margin in that state.
2. Ballot measures split evenly. 41 outcomes were coded left and 41 right, with 62 neutral or process measures and 21 still pending. 22 of the left outcomes are right-leaning measures that failed, which keeps current law.
3. Sports, voting rules and crime: sex-designated sports and facilities measures passed in Arizona, Colorado and Nebraska. Citizenship-to-vote measures passed everywhere they were on the ballot, and voter-ID measures passed in Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and Oklahoma but failed in California and Colorado. 7 of 8 decided criminal-justice measures moved toward stricter rules.
4. Abortion, initiatives and labor: abortion-rights measures won in Nevada and Virginia and Missouri’s ban failed, but Idaho’s rights measure failed. Voters rejected every limit on citizen initiatives. Labor measures mostly passed, though Oklahoma’s $15 minimum wage failed. Tax measures split.
5. What the surveys measured. In the SSRS Voter Poll shared by ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, NBC and AP, 37%–38% of voters approved of Trump and the economy was the most-named issue (39%–40%). Among all adults, the Silver Bulletin average stood at 38.3% approve on Nov. 4. Gallup ended its approval series in February 2026.

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