How America voted in maps and charts
It's been an extraordinary night for the Democrats in the US midterms. They have taken control of the Senate and the House of Representatives too. The results in the Senate are beyond what the Democrats would have expected. North Carolina was a likely pick-up but the previously deep red state of South Carolina was a huge shock and Kansas had not returned a Democratic senator since 1932. Texas, Iowa, Ohio and Maine also turned blue and the Democrats held Michigan. There are two seats remaining, Alaska and Mississippi, both are on a knife edge. The shift from Republican to Democrat happened across the country. Some of the biggest swings were in Texas where the Democrats took the Senate seat and the governor.
