Feature · Who won · Midterms 2026

Many Streams, One Chamber

Who the 2026 winners are: 13 of 67 Senate and governor winners have a documented heritage other than white, and 22 are women. Each stream below is one winner, as wide as the votes they won.

By the politic.design data desk · 6 Nov 2026 · Preliminary counts

Voters of many ages in a library polling place — AI-generated image (Google Gemini) for illustration. Not a photograph of a real event or of any real person.

Many streams into two chambers

In shortEach line is one winner of a 2026 Senate or governor race. It starts at their documented heritage on the left and flows into the office they won. Thicker lines won more votes; gold lines are women, blue lines are men. Hover a line for the name, votes and margin.

Hover or tap a stream, a heritage group or an office.

WomenMenline width = votes won

Heritage is shown only where the person self-identifies or a reliable source reports it; everyone else is under "Not documented". We never infer heritage from a name or a photo. Margins and votes from Wikipedia's race pages and network tallies as of 6 Nov 2026; preliminary.

Records reported this week

Women won 7 U.S. Senate races in 2026 (3D, 4R); at least 23 women (16D, 7R) will serve in the 120th Congress Senate, down from the record 27 in 2026. 2 Senate races uncalled. source
Women won 133 U.S. House races (114D, 19R); at least 136 women will serve in the House in 2027 (31.3%), a new record (previous 127, set 2024). 16 House races uncalled at time of update. source
At least 159 women will serve in the 120th Congress, a new record (previous 152, set 2024). source
Women won 15 governorships in 2026 (12D, 3R); at least 17 women governors (14D, 3R) will serve in 2027 (34%), a new record overall and for Democratic women. Alaska and Kansas governor races uncalled. source
A record three Black women will serve concurrently in the U.S. Senate (Alsobrooks, Blunt Rochester, Stratton); Peggy Flanagan is the first Native American woman senator. source
Latinas and Black women set congressional records; Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian women matched the House record (CAWP gives no overall counts). source
New Mexico became the first state to elect an all-women-of-color gubernatorial ticket. source
Senate: Democrats won 20 of 35 contested seats including 7 Republican-held seats; Republicans held 13; Alaska and Mississippi undecided as of Nov 6, 2026 1 PM EST. Democratic caucus projected at 54-56 seats. source

Every winner, with the source for their heritage

Winner	Office	Party	Heritage (as reported)	Gender	Votes	Margin	Source
Tommy Tuberville	Governor, Alabama	Republican	not documented	male	872,806	4.2	source
Katie Hobbs	Governor, Arizona	Democratic	not documented	female	1,246,992	12.8	source
Sarah Huckabee Sanders	Governor, Arkansas	Republican	not documented	female	477,138	15.3	source
Xavier Becerra	Governor, California	Democratic	Latino / Hispanic	male	5,737,929	29.6	source
Phil Weiser	Governor, Colorado	Democratic	not documented	male	1,434,982	26.5	source
Ned Lamont	Governor, Connecticut	Democratic	not documented	male	766,265	18.8	source
Byron Donalds	Governor, Florida	Republican	Black / African American, Jamaican and Panamanian heritage	male	4,132,363	1.3	source
Keisha Lance Bottoms	Governor, Georgia	Democratic	Black / African American	female	2,271,404	8.6	source
Josh Green	Governor, Hawaii	Democratic	not documented	male	278,652	45.2	source
Brad Little	Governor, Idaho	Republican	not documented	male	407,200	24.8	source
JB Pritzker	Governor, Illinois	Democratic	not documented	male	2,351,526	22.8	source
Rob Sand	Governor, Iowa	Democratic	not documented	male	757,489	11.0	source
Hannah Pingree	Governor, Maine	Democratic	not documented	female	382,760	17.3	source
Wes Moore	Governor, Maryland	Democratic	Black / African American	male	1,171,396	29.6	source
Maura Healey	Governor, Massachusetts	Democratic	not documented	female	1,618,949	27.6	source
Jocelyn Benson	Governor, Michigan	Democratic	not documented	female	2,600,636	10.7	source
Amy Klobuchar	Governor, Minnesota	Democratic (DFL)	Slovene and German-Swiss descent	female	1,569,698	12.9	source
Jim Pillen	Governor, Nebraska	Republican	not documented	male	376,284	8.6	source
Aaron Ford	Governor, Nevada	Democratic	Black / African American	male	532,026	7.1	source
Kelly Ayotte	Governor, New Hampshire	Republican	French-Canadian descent (paternal)	female	316,798	3.9	source
Deb Haaland	Governor, New Mexico	Democratic	Native American - enrolled member of Laguna Pueblo	female	415,484	14.6	source
Kathy Hochul	Governor, New York	Democratic	not documented	female	3,529,746	19.4	source
Amy Acton	Governor, Ohio	Democratic	not documented	female	2,404,178	7.9	source
Mike Mazzei	Governor, Oklahoma	Republican	not documented	male	581,706	6.0	source
Tina Kotek	Governor, Oregon	Democratic	not documented	female	843,263	6.6	source
Josh Shapiro	Governor, Pennsylvania	Democratic	not documented	male	3,002,608	22.1	source
Helena Foulkes	Governor, Rhode Island	Democratic	not documented	female	206,892	29.9	source
Alan Wilson	Governor, South Carolina	Republican	not documented	male	1,050,190	4.5	source
Larry Rhoden	Governor, South Dakota	Republican	not documented	male	193,317	27.0	source
Marsha Blackburn	Governor, Tennessee	Republican	not documented	female	955,259	2.5	source
Gina Hinojosa	Governor, Texas	Democratic	Latina / Hispanic, Mexican descent	female	5,230,908	7.1	source
Phil Scott	Governor, Vermont	Republican	not documented	male	163,151	7.0	source
David Crowley	Governor, Wisconsin	Democratic	Black / African American	male	1,438,721	8.2	source
Eric Barlow	Governor, Wyoming	Republican	not documented	male	128,480	51.8	source
Barry Moore	Senate, Alabama	Republican	not documented	male	917,347	9.4	source
Tom Cotton	Senate, Arkansas	Republican	not documented	male	480,576	11.9	source
John Hickenlooper	Senate, Colorado	Democratic	Partial Dutch descent	male	1,406,783	24.3	source
Chris Coons	Senate, Delaware	Democratic	not documented	male	240,347	27.2	source
Ashley Moody	Senate, Florida	Republican	not documented	female	4,208,022	2.9	source
Jon Ossoff	Senate, Georgia	Democratic	not documented	male	2,466,207	18.0	source
Jim Risch	Senate, Idaho	Republican	not documented	male	401,731	23.0	source
Juliana Stratton	Senate, Illinois	Democratic	Black / African American	female	2,431,012	23.1	source
Josh Turek	Senate, Iowa	Democratic	not documented	male	686,487	4.1	source
Adam Hamilton	Senate, Kansas	Democratic	not documented	male	556,567	4.8	source
Andy Barr	Senate, Kentucky	Republican	not documented	male	784,869	12.1	source
Julia Letlow	Senate, Louisiana	Republican	not documented	female	745,963	1.8	source
Troy Jackson	Senate, Maine	Democratic	not documented	male	368,332	6.9	source
Ed Markey	Senate, Massachusetts	Democratic	not documented	male	1,590,089	31.0	source
Abdul El-Sayed	Senate, Michigan	Democratic	Egyptian American (born to Egyptian immigrant parents)	male	2,507,286	7.0	source
Peggy Flanagan	Senate, Minnesota	Democratic (DFL)	Native American - Ojibwe; citizen of White Earth Nation, Irish descent	female	1,520,869	10.1	source
Kurt Alme	Senate, Montana	Republican	not documented	male	230,117	11.1	source
Pete Ricketts	Senate, Nebraska	Republican	not documented	male	373,115	6.8	source
Chris Pappas	Senate, New Hampshire	Democratic	not documented	male	341,737	13.8	source
Cory Booker	Senate, New Jersey	Democratic	Black / African American	male	1,786,910	26.8	source
Ben Ray Luján	Senate, New Mexico	Democratic	Hispanic / Latino	male	455,165	26.4	source
Roy Cooper	Senate, North Carolina	Democratic	not documented	male	2,467,963	19.6	source
Sherrod Brown	Senate, Ohio	Democratic	not documented	male	2,301,042	4.8	source
Kevin Hern	Senate, Oklahoma	Republican	not documented	male	639,510	18.1	source
Jeff Merkley	Senate, Oregon	Democratic	not documented	male	864,436	16.1	source
Jack Reed	Senate, Rhode Island	Democratic	not documented	male	237,742	37.2	source
Annie Andrews	Senate, South Carolina	Democratic	not documented	female	1,042,362	4.4	source
Mike Rounds	Senate, South Dakota	Republican	not documented	male	184,571	21.0	source
Bill Hagerty	Senate, Tennessee	Republican	not documented	male	1,138,457	12.2	source
James Talarico	Senate, Texas	Democratic	not documented	male	5,445,121	12.1	source
Mark Warner	Senate, Virginia	Democratic	not documented	male	2,169,243	22.4	source
Shelley Moore Capito	Senate, West Virginia	Republican	not documented	female	266,068	20.4	source
Harriet Hageman	Senate, Wyoming	Republican	not documented	female	122,157	30.4	source

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