US midterm map: Key states that shifted in the Democratic wave

American voters delivered historic results in the 2026 midterm elections, with Democrats achieving major breakthroughs across multiple states and breaking decades-long Republican strongholds. In Texas, Democrat James Talarico defeated Trump-backed Ken Paxton, ending a 38-year Republican Senate streak, while Gina Hinojosa became the state's first Latina governor. Kansas elected its first Democratic senator since 1932, and Georgia's Jon Ossoff won re-election with 60 percent of the vote. Other notable firsts include Keisha Lance Bottoms as America's first Black female governor in Georgia, Peggy Flanagan as Minnesota's first Indigenous senator, and Abdul El-Sayed as the first Muslim senator in Michigan. Republicans retained Florida, where Byron Donalds became the first Black Republican governor elected in the U.S.