A voter casts their poll at a safe poll drop field on the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix, Nov. 1, 2022.

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A voter casts their poll at a safe poll drop field on the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center in Phoenix, Nov. 1, 2022.

Matt York/AP

As predicted, Election Day has kicked off the subsequent section of this Election Season — with a number of shut races within the House but to be determined and management of the Senate doubtlessly not recognized for a couple of month with a Dec. 6 runoff in Georgia.

Follow election results for House, Senate, governors and other races here.

Here’s the place issues stand, by the numbers (as of Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. ET):

The Senate: Republicans 48, Democrats 46, Independents 2, Uncalled 4

For management of the Senate, Democrats are +1 with their flip of the Pennsylvania Senate race. That means Republicans want to select up two of the three undecided aggressive races to take management of the Senate.

What’s left:

• Georgia: Incumbent Raphael Warnock (D) and Republican challenger Herschel Walker (R) are headed to a Dec. 6 runoff as a result of neither surpassed 50% on the poll. Warnock seems to have narrowly missed getting there, reaching 49.4% with 86% of the vote in.

• Arizona: Incumbent Mark Kelly (D) leads Republican challenger Blake Masters (R) 51% to 47% however with simply 67% of the vote in. Arizona had voting points in its largest county, Maricopa, early within the day Tuesday, and sure will not end counting votes till Friday. The race is unlikely to be determined till a minimum of then. There’s additionally an automated recount that will get triggered if the margin is inside 0.5 proportion factors. It’s not there, however the margin might very nicely get significantly tighter.

• Nevada: Adam Laxalt (R) leads incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto (D) by roughly 3 proportion factors, or about 23,000 votes, with 77% of the voting in. So much might change, as there’s a substantial quantity of vote left to rely, together with about 27,000 ballots nonetheless in closely Democratic Clark County (Las Vegas), plus an unspecified variety of dropbox votes there, in addition to mail and dropped off ballots in Washoe County (Reno).

• Alaska: This will not be a seat that will be a flip, as a result of each candidates are Republicans, however incumbent Lisa Murkowski trails Kelly Tshibaka by simply over 3,000 votes with greater than 185,000 votes solid. Only 75% of the vote is in, so rather a lot will change. 

The House: Republicans 207, Democrats 183, Uncalled 45

For management of the House, both get together wants to succeed in 218 seats. Republicans must win 11 extra for management, or 24% of the remaining uncalled seats. When all is claimed and carried out, Republicans will want a web achieve of 5 seats to take management. They are nonetheless on a path to do this, however with a possible smaller majority than they have been anticipating.

The math:

Republicans have flipped 13 and are main in 4 others for a complete of 17.

Democrats have flipped 5 and are main in 5 others for a complete of 10.

• That’s a web achieve of R+8 presently. 

• The vary at this level seems to be about R+7 to 14, which might give them only a 2- to 12-seat majority.

NOTE: Please understand that these numbers are fluid and can change as vote continues to roll in.

Democrats have an exterior shot at holding the House at this level, however must see a shift in some races the place Republicans are main, however have not but been referred to as.