RESULTS. Donald Trump's Republicans in difficulty in the 2026 midterms, Democrats close to the majority in the Senate... Follow the count of seats in Congress

The first midterm results point to a sanction vote against Donald Trump. For these mid-term elections in the United States, American voters voted on Tuesday, November 3, to renew all the seats in the House of Representatives (the equivalent of our National Assembly) as well as a third of those in the Senate. The Democrats managed to flip five seats in the Senate, notably with the victory of James Talarica in Texas, Roy Cooper in North Carolina and Annie Andrews in South Carolina. The Republican camp also lost seven seats in the House of Representatives. Franceinfo allows you to follow the seat count throughout the night.

The two assemblies that make up the American Congress are currently dominated by the Republican Party of Donald Trump. But the tenant of the White House is entering these elections in a bad position with his popularity rating at its lowest in the polls. The President of the United States is paying in particular for the inflation caused by the war with Iran and the crises in the Straits of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb, as well as by the shock of his customs duties.

It is customary in the United States to see sitting presidents sanctioned during midterm elections. Since 1946, only Bill Clinton in 1998 and George W. Bush in 2002 have managed to escape an electoral defeat in the House of Representatives. The loss of the majority, even in just one of the two chambers of Congress, would put the brakes on Donald Trump for his last two years in office.