Democrats won control of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday by flipping more than two dozen Republican-held seats, according to CBS News. The wins included longtime swing districts and seats once considered deep red, spanning suburban areas in the Northeast and parts of South Texas.
The midterm results were shaped by last year’s mid-decade redistricting push. Texas Republicans shifted several districts further right at President Trump’s urging, while California Democrats moved districts to the left. Several other states also changed their House maps for partisan reasons. Democrats won several races under the new lines, while Republican gains have been smaller so far.
In several districts, Democrats unseated Republicans who had won by double digits two years ago. Both parties spent heavily in the Northeast, including a competitive Pennsylvania seat held for a decade by a Republican who often outran his party’s top of the ticket.
In Texas, Republicans had aimed to pick up as many as five Democratic-held seats. Only one flipped to the GOP, while Democrats captured two Republican-held districts. Democrats also won statewide races there, including a Senate seat and the governor’s office, which CBS said were the first Democratic wins of that kind in decades.
California voters approved their own map after Texas acted, and Democrats picked up all five seats they had targeted. CBS said dozens of races had not yet been called at the time of publication.
