Democrats take Control of the House and Senate; Mississippi and Alaska Senate Races Still Too Close to Call

The Democratic Party has taken control of the United States Senate and House of Representatives in what is being called a “Blue Tsunami.”

Democrats have secured 54 seats in the Senate and counting. Texas and Kansas elected their first Democratic senators in decades. The party flipped seats in Ohio, Iowa, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Maine.

Mississippi and Alaska remain toss-ups as counting continues.

Mississippi has called on volunteers to help count ballots with 96% of votes accounted for. If Democrats take the lead, the typically socially conservative state will have a Democratic senator for the first time in 44 years.

1. The first Black female elected Governor (GA)

2. The first openly gay man elected Senator (NH)

3. The first Muslim Senator has been elected (MI)

4. California’s first Latino Governor has been elected (CA)

5. First Black House Speaker in Congress

6. First Female Native American Governor (NM)

7. Ohio, Tennessee and Minnesota's first female Governor

8. Texas’s first Latina governor

9. First Democratic Senator since 1988 (TX)

10. Alabama elects its first openly transgender woman lawmaker

11. Georgia’s elects its first openly trans, nonbinary and Japanese-American lawmaker

12. Kansas’s first Democratic Senator since 1932

13. First Black governors of Wisconsin, Nevada, Florida, and U.S. Virgin Islands.

This story is developing.