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The 2010 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, in the middle of Democratic President Barack Obama's first term. Republicans ended unified Democratic control of Congress and the presidency by winning a majority in the House of Representatives and gained seats in the Senate despite Democrats holding Senate control.
Republicans regained control of the U.S. House they had lost in the 2006 midterm election, picking up a net total of 63 seats and erasing the gains Democrats made in 2006 and 2008. Although the sitting president's party usually loses seats in a midterm election, the 2010 election resulted in the highest losses by a party in a House midterm ...
The 2010 United States Senate elections were held on November 2, 2010, from among the United States Senate's 100 seats. A special election was held on January 19, 2010, for a mid-term vacancy in Massachusetts. 34 of the November elections were for 6-year terms to the Senate's Class 3, while other 3 were special elections to finish incomplete terms.
In a February 2010 interview with National Journal, he said that "it's very hard to come up with a scenario where Democrats don't lose the House. It's very hard." [8] Rasmussen Reports. On November 1, 2010, Scott Rasmussen predicted the Democrats "will likely lose 55 or more seats in the House." [9] Rothenberg Political Report.
Governor Martin O'Malley sought a second term in 2010. [81] He was elected with 53% of the vote in 2006. Former Republican Governor Bob Ehrlich on March 30, 2010, announced that he would run. [82] In the last election, in 2006, O'Malley narrowly defeated Ehrlich, who ran as an incumbent. In the primary, Ehrlich faced business owner Brian Murphy ...
In years past, the midterm election results have typically been announced the night of Election Day after the polls closed or the morning after, a pattern which held true for many 2022 races. But ...
Less than two weeks before the U.S. midterm elections, with Democrats on verge of losing their razor-thin majority in Congress, the party is asking former President Barack Obama to perform some ...
This is a list of close election results on the national level and within administrative divisions.It lists results that have been decided by a margin of less than 1 vote in 1,000 (a margin of less than 0.1 percentage points): single-winner elections where the winning candidate was less than 0.1% ahead of the second-placed candidate, as well as party-list elections where a party was less than ...