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Yearly Wrap Up.

Election post analysis. 

This will receive edits periodly as we await Alaska and Mississippi senate races.

Donald Trump has officially entered a lame-duck phase following the 2026 midterm elections, as Democrats flipped control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Overall.

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) will be the first Black governor in Florida.

Former House member and Biden Administration official Deb Haaland will be the first Native American woman to become governor in New Mexico.

David Crowley will be the first Black governor in Wisconsin.

Former House member and Biden Administration official Xavier Becerra will be the first Hispanic governor in California.

Former Atlanta mayor and Biden Advisor Keisha Lance Bottoms will be the first Black woman governor in Georgia.

Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) will be the first woman governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Amy Acton will be the first woman governor in Ohio.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) will be the first woman governor in Tennessee.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (R-MN) will be the first woman governor of Minnesota.

Jocelyn Benson will become the governor in Michigan.

Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins will become the governor of Alaska.

Gov. Kathy Hochul secures a third term in New York.

Helena Foulkes will become governor of Rhode Island.

Gov. JB Pritzker secures a second term in Illinois.

Gov. Ned Lamont secured a third term in Connecticut.

Gov. Wes Moore secures a second term in Maryland.

Gov. Tina Kotek secures a second term in Oregon.

Gov. Jim Pillen secures a second term in Nebraska.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders secures a second term in Arkansas.

Gov. Maura Heeley secures a second term in Massachusetts.

Gov. Josh Shapiro secures a second term in Pennsylvania.

Gov. Kelly Ayotte secures a second term in New Hampshire.

Gov. Phil Scott secures a second term in Vermont.

Gov. Katie Hobbs secures a second term in Arizona.

Gov. Larry Rhoden secures a second term in South Dakota.

Gov. Brad Little secures a third term in Idaho.

Gov. Josh Green secures a second term in Hawai'i.

Gov. Cindy Holscher secures a second term in Kansas.

Former governor Ralph Torres will become the governor of Northern Mariana Islands.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) will become the governor of Alabama.

Gov. Joe Lombardo is defeated by Aaron Ford. Ford will be the first Black governor in Nevada.

Gov. Greg Abbott is defeated by Texas state representative Gina Hinojosa. She is the first woman born of immigrants to become governor in Texas.

Tony Ada will become the governor of Guam.

Eric Barlow will become the governor of Wyoming.

Mike Mazzei will become the governor of Oklahama.

Alan Wilson will become the governor of South Carolina.

Rob Sand will become the governor of Iowa.

Hannah Pingree will become the governor of Maine.

Janeese Lewis George will become the mayor of Washington, DC.

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) secures another term.

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) secures another term.

Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) secures another term.

Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) secures another term.

Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) defeats progressive firebrand Angie Nixon.

Sen. Cindy Hyde Smith (R-MS)

Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK)

Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) is defeated by Annie Andrews.

Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) is defeated by former senator Sherrod Brown.

Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) is defeated by Adam Hamilton.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is defeated by Troy Jackson, the formal replacement of Graham Platner.

Abdul El-Sayed wins the U.S. Senate open seat in Michigan. He will be the first Muslim to be a senator.

Rep. Julie Letlow (R-LA), the widow of late Rep-elect Luke Letlow wins the U.S. Senate open seat in Louisiana.

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan wins the U.S. Senate open seat in Minnesota. She will be the first Native American woman to be a senator.

Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton wins the U.S. Senate open seat in Illinois.

Former U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme wins the open U.S. Senate seat in Montana.

State representative James Talarico wins the U.S. Senate open seat in Texas.

Paraolypmian Josh Turek wins the U.S. Senate open seat in Iowa.

Former governor Roy Cooper wins the U.S. Senate open seat in North Carolina.

Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH) wins the U.S. Senate open seat in New Hampshire. He will be the first openly gay senator from the Northeast.

Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY) wins the U.S. Senate open seat in Kentucky.

Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) wins the U.S. Senate open seat in Alabama.

Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) secures another term.

Sen. Ben Ray Lujàn (D-NM) secures another term.

Sen. Shelley Capito Moore (R-WV) secures another term.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) secures another term.

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) secures another term.

Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) secures another term.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) secures another term.

Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) secures another term.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) secures another term.

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) secures another term.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) secures another term.

Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK) wins the U.S. Senate open seat in Oklahoma.

Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) wins the U.S. Senate open seat in Wyoming.

The Democratic Party will take control of the U.S. House of Representatives. The current House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will lose the gavel.

The Democratic Party will take control of the U.S. Senate. The current Senate majority leader John Thune (R-SD) will lose control of the conference and caucuses.

Democrats managed to flip Alaska, Texas, Ohio, Nevada, Georgia and Iowa in state gubernatorial races. They held New York, Arizona, Kansas, California, Illinois, Michigan, Colorado, New Mexico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Massachusetts, Oregon, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Hawai'i, Minnesota and Maryland.

I will add more to this post.