Please enable JavaScript for a better experience. * Our expected seat gains may include halves because we split races we considered toss-ups between both parties evenly. Republicans are on offense in the Senate where they’re hoping to add to their current two-seat majority in the 2018 midterm elections. Any fewer and Republicans would maintain control. Follow today's top polls, candidates, races, results and more with POLITICO. * Democratic total includes Bernard Sanders, an independent from Vermont and Angus King, an independent from Maine, who caucus with the Democrats. To have a chance at controlling the Senate at the end of the night, Democrats will have to cut their losses in these 10 states, pick up seats in states like Nevada and Arizona -- two states that have been trending blue in recent years -- and potentially flip a seat in a traditionally red state like Tennessee or Texas. By Sarah Almukhtar, Mike Andre, Wilson Andrews, Matthew Bloch, Jeremy Bowers, Larry Buchanan, Nate Cohn, Alastair Coote, Annie Daniel, Tiff Fehr, Samuel Jacoby, Josh Katz, Josh Keller, Aaron Krolik, Jasmine C. Lee, Rebecca Lieberman, Blacki Migliozzi, Paul Murray, Kevin Quealy, Jaymin Patel, Adam Pearce, Rachel Shorey, Michael Strickland, Rumsey Taylor, Isaac White, Maxine Whitely, and Josh Williams.Alan Blinder, Lauretta Charlton, Emily Cochrane, Catie Edmondson, Elisabeth Goodridge, Pat Lyons, John Schwartz, Mitch Smith, Liam Stack and Jamie Stockwell contributed reporting. Thirty-nine state and territorial governorships as well as numerous state and local elections were also contested. CNN will broadcast a projected winner only after an extensive review of data from a number of sources. The U.S. Senate has 51 Republicans and 49 … Note: Democratic totals will include the results of two independents, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Senator Angus King of Maine, who caucus with the Democrats. Read the latest news and analysis on the 2018 Senate Elections. Ten Democratic senators are facing re-election in states President Trump won in 2016, five of which he took by double digits.
Real-time midterm Senate election results for 2018 with live maps by state including races in Florida, Indiana, Michigan, and Tennessee. Starting Projection: 2018 Senate Elections: Consensus Forecast Change >> Live Results shows all races that have been called. 2018 Senate Election Live Results 35 U.S. Senate seats to be contested in 2018. Forecast takes the Live Results and adds in the Starting Projection for those elections yet to be decided.