22 States have 2 Republican
Senators: Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota,
Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming.
19 States have 2 Democrat Senators:
California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York,
Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington,
8 States have Senators Split with 1
Democrat and 1 Republican: Alabama, Colorado, Maine, Montana, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, West Virginia. Wisconsin,
2 States have Unresolved elections
for Senate: Arizona, Florida,
Results
below updated as of 10:06 a.m. EST on November 9, 2018:
Democrats take control of the U.S.
House. Democrats flip seven
governorships, with Georgia still too close to call. Republicans flip one
governorship in Alaska.
Trifectas see changes in at least 11 states, with one state
undecided. Current results count up to 14 Democratic and 22 Republican
trifectas. Democrats currently have a net gain of six trifectas, while
Republicans have a net loss of four. Thirteen states are slated to have divided
government, which is down from 16. The one remaining state is Georgia. These
trifecta levels are similar to those following the 2014 midterms, when
Republicans held 24 trifectas to 13 for Democrats.
o If Brian Kemp (R)
wins in Georgia, there will be 37 total trifectas, which would tie with 2013
and 2014 for the highest national trifecta count in recent history.
o
The only state left with a divided
legislature is Minnesota. The remaining 49 state legislatures are all
controlled by one political party. Of those states, Democrats control 18
legislatures while Republicans control 31. After the 2010 midterms, there were
eight states with divided legislatures. In 1994, there were 17 states with
divided legislatures.
Based on current counts and media
projections, Democrats will see a net gain of five legislative
chambers. This would leave the new chamber
count at 62 Republican and 37 Democratic. That count is most similar to before
the 2014 midterms, when Democrats entered that election with 39 chambers and
Republicans held 59. Following the 2014 midterms, Democrats held 30 chambers
while Republicans had 68.
The 2010 election swung 12 state governorships from Democratic to
Republican. In 11 of those states, the Republicans maintained control in 2014, while Pennsylvania switched back to Democratic control. In
2018, the remaining 11 states saw the following five states go back into the
Democratic column: Kansas, Maine, Michigan, New Mexico, and Wisconsin. The
remaining six states—Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Wyoming—all
elected Republican governors for the third straight time.
The DLCC reports 367
state legislative seats flipped
Democratic. Historically, a wave
election at the state legislative level
occurs when one party loses at least 494 seats.
Voters legalize marijuana in
Michigan, among other statewide
ballot results. In Michigan, voters passed
Michigan Proposal 1 55.91% to 44.09%.
Voters in Mountain
View, California, approved Measure P, a
measure designed to enact a per-employee business license tax based on a
company's number of employees. Businesses with over 50 employees must pay a tax
of $75 to $150 per employee based on the company's size. Google, the largest
employer in Mountain View, employs 23,324 people according to city data. The
measure passed with 69 percent support.
Democrats had a net gain of
five state government triplexes and Republicans had a net reduction of at least three
triplexes. An additional Republican triplex could be lost pending the results
of elections in Georgia. A
triplex is defined as one political party holding the offices of governor, attorney general, and secretary of state. These 2018 results trim the GOP advantage to 19 triplex states
versus 17 for Democrats. Going into the election, Republicans held a 22-12
advantage.
State
government trifectas - The map below shows the status of
state government trifectas as a result of the 2018 elections. The second map
shows the status of state government trifectas before the 2018 elections.
Across the country, federal
elections on the ballot included regular elections for 33 U.S. Senate seats and
435 U.S. House of Representatives. There were also special elections for two
U.S. Senate seats and four U.S. House seats.
Voters in 37 states decided 155
statewide ballot measures in November.
Across the country, state elections
on the ballot included ballot measures, legislators, executives such as
governors and attorneys general, and appellate court judges.
Local elections on the ballot
included ballot measures, county commissioners, mayors, city councilmembers,
school board members, trial court judges, and many other varieties of local
elected official.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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