Louisiana Sixth Congressional District 2026: Live Election Results, Banks vs. Appeaning

With most of the results in, the district has voted 14 points more Democratic than it did in the 2024 presidential election.

The nation shifted towards Democrats by around 15 percentage points in this year's midterm elections, with much larger swings occurring among subgroups where President Trump made substantial gains only two years ago, like Hispanic voters and voters under 30. Democrats won around 70 percent of the vote with both groups, a much larger advantage than they held with those groups in 2020 or 2024, according to Times Voter Trends.

Ty Masterson, the Republican hoping to flip the Kansas governorship, released a statement that stopped short of conceding but acknowledged a difficult night for Republicans. Masterson is trailing State Senator Cindy Holscher, a Democrat, by more than 5,500 votes, according to The A.P., which has not called the race...

Stocks initially wobbled on Wednesday as the Democrats' victory became clear but have since rallied, with major benchmarks across Europe rising. The S&P 500 is expected to start trading around 1 percent higher when U.S. exchanges open later this morning...

It was a rough night for the Make America Healthy Again movement, as many candidates aligned with it lost. Zach Lahn -- who received a $1 million donation from a PAC associated with the movement, and who appeared alongside Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last week -- was defeated in the Iowa governor's race. Ken Paxton, who also tied himself to the movement, lost in the Texas Senate race...

Some races are still too close to call, leaving some questions unanswered, including how big the Democrats' House majority will be, and whether the party could further widen its new majority in the Senate. In the Senate, we're still waiting on results from Mississippi and Alaska. So far, Democrats have gained 19 seats in the House, but several dozen races have not been called.

Times Voter Trends showed voters across the country and in key Senate races almost uniformly shifted to the left. The Democratic Party's margin in the national House vote is expected to be about 13 percentage points, the largest for either party in a congressional election in at least a half-century, according to Times estimates. Estimates are based off data from the voter file, election-night precinct results and polling...

With Democrats having taken control of Congress, countries around the world are wondering what comes next for their relationships with the United States. Some students in Tokyo and Sydney expressed hope that the results would check President Trump's power after two years of disruptive tariffs and a war with Iran, both of which have driven up inflation worldwide. Others questioned whether the results would spur Trump toward more aggressive actions abroad.

Nebraska voters rejected two ballot measures that would have legalized online sports betting in the state. Gambling companies supporting the measures, including DraftKings and FanDuel, poured more than $20 million into the campaign, promising new tax revenue for property tax relief. Opponents, who raised just over $1 million, warned that online betting would threaten the integrity of college sports and fuel gambling addiction.

Arizona voters have approved a ballot measure barring transgender student athletes from participating on teams that match their gender identity, The Associated Press reported. The measure also requires transgender students to use only those restrooms and locker rooms that match their sex at birth.

With Democrats performing so well around the country, the party will be looking at Montana as a big potential missed opportunity. For months, supporters of Seth Bodnar, a well-funded left-leaning independent, and Alani Bankhead, the little-known Democratic nominee, feuded with each other and tried to pressure each other to drop out of the race. In the end, neither did and they split Democratic votes, helping Kurt Alme, the Republican, to an easy victory.

Dan S. Sullivan's lead in Alaska's Senate race masks the fact that he is underperforming President Trump's margins in the 2024 race. Much of the reported vote is from ballots cast on Election Day, which are favorable for Republicans. In the 27 districts that have finished tallying such votes, Sullivan is running behind Trump by an average of 12 percentage points...

Kurt Alme, a former federal prosecutor, won the Senate race in Montana, according to The Associated Press, allowing Republicans to hold on to an open seat in conservative territory. Alme, the former U.S. attorney for Montana, focused his campaign on reducing federal spending and bringing tax relief...

Representative Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, the longest-serving woman in Congress, defeated Derek Merrin, a Republican, according to The Associated Press, to win her 23rd term. Kaptur, 80, was first elected to the House in 1982. She edged out Merrin two years ago in an area that President Trump carried, and the Ninth Congressional District was redrawn to tilt more conservative. Kaptur prepared for the rematch by moderating her stances to defend her seat. She faced local Democratic backlash over an ad in which she said that "boys should not play in girls' sports."

Attorney General Keith Ellison of Minnesota, a Democrat, won a third term, The Associated Press reported, fending off a challenge from a trial lawyer who sought to portray him as complicit in the proliferation of fraud in state-run welfare programs...

Turnout in Texas will end in the range of 10 million ballots cast, a record showing for a midterm election in the state that approaches turnout typically seen in a presidential race. It was strongest in areas that James Talarico won, particularly in majority-Hispanic counties like Cameron, Caldwell and Webb, which saw modest declines between 6 percent and 12 percent from two years ago. Midterm turnout often decreases much more sharply.

Richard Pan, a former Democratic state senator, defeated Representative Kevin Kiley, a Republican who changed his registration to independent this year, to win the House seat in a redrawn Northern California district, according to The Associated Press. Pan, a pediatrician who as a state lawmaker was known for passing bills to toughen school vaccine requirements, capitalized in a district where Democrats now outnumber Republicans, 3 to 1. Kiley, who has represented a rural stretch of Northern California in the House since 2022, tried to distance himself from President Trump's policies.

Mayor Karen Bass of Los Angeles and her democratic socialist challenger, Nithya Raman, were locked in a tight battle with about half of the expected vote counted. The mayor has been in the fight of her political career since last year, when she was out of the country when the Los Angeles wildfires erupted, and the closeness of the early returns was not auspicious for her. Last-minute voting in liberal Los Angeles tends to trend leftward and Raman's base was largely younger Angelenos, who tend to vote as Election Day gets closer...

Elon Musk, who spent a staggering $500 million or so on the midterm elections, weighed in with his first comments on his candidates' dramatic losses. "Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now," he wrote on X. "Guess my election-interfering space lasers didn't work this time."

We may not know how many ballots remain to be counted in the Mississippi Senate race until next week. The state allows provisional ballots to be counted up to five business days after the election. Around 6,000 were counted in the state in 2022, and about 15,000 in 2024 -- both much wider margins than the mere 28 votes that currently separate Scott Colom, the Democrat, and Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, the Republican.

Hispanic voters swung to President Trump in 2024, becoming a key demographic that helped push him to victory. But two years into a second term that has heavily focused on deportations, Hispanic voters have decisively shifted against him...

Senator Tommy Tuberville, a former Auburn University football coach who campaigned with harsh anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric, will be Alabama's next governor, according to The Associated Press. He defeated Doug Jones, a former Alabama senator, in a rematch of their Senate fight six years ago.

In Adam Hamilton's Senate win in Kansas, two counties in the western part of the state -- Finney and Seward -- shifted around 50 percentage points to the left. Both are majority-Hispanic counties and are home to a large number of meat packing plants. The area is known as the Golden Triangle of Meat Packaging.

Speaker Mike Johnson acknowledged in a statement that Republicans had lost the House, saying that "the American people have made the same decision that has been made in all but two midterms in the last century."

Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who donated over $115 million in September and October to boost Democrats this cycle, shared a statement with The New York Times after the chamber was called for the Democrats. Bloomberg particularly trained his giving on helping Democrats take the House. "Congratulations to Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who will make history as the next Speaker of the House -- and the first from New York City. I'm especially glad that so many Moms Demand Action volunteers who stepped up to run won," Bloomberg said, referring to a group of gun-safety activists he has supported. "I was honored to support their campaigns, and they helped prove that voters across the nation are looking for common sense solutions to the challenges facing the nation."

Democrats have now snapped Republicans' governing trifecta, winning key leverage in January over federal spending and oversight. Representative Robert Garcia, the California Democrat who is poised to be the chairman of the Oversight Committee, the main investigative panel in the House, issued a warning in a statement on Tuesday night: "Lawyer up."

It was long expected that Democrats would retake the House majority, but the scale of their victories tonight has exceeded even the rosiest projections from party officials.

Democrats have won control of the House, The New York Times has projected, giving the party a majority for the final two years of President Trump's term.

Johnny Garcia, a Democratic former deputy sheriff, prevailed over his Republican rival, Carlos De La Cruz, in a redrawn House district centered in San Antonio, according to The Associated Press. Garcia's victory defied expectations in a district, Texas' 35th, that was gerrymandered to favor Republicans last year...

Democratic socialists are set to have a substantial voice in Congress next year: Members of the Democratic Socialists of America won five House seats in deep-blue districts, joining the two -- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib -- already in the House. Two others endorsed by the D.S.A., Angela Gonzales-Torres and Mai Vang, have a chance to join them if they can win their contested California House races.

Areas with large numbers of white residents without college degrees have been major sources of support for Republicans in recent years. But those blue-collar areas shifted sharply toward Democrats this election...

House Democrats are also celebrating another milestone tonight: They are on track have more than 100 Democratic women elected to the caucus for the first time in history, an increase of more than 60 percent over the past decade. "Women made history because we showed up to vote and then voted in more than 100 Democratic women to serve in the House," Representative Teresa Leger Fernandez of New Mexico, the chairwoman of the Democratic Women's Caucus, said in a statement celebrating the milestone.

Large parts of the country have shifted toward Democrats, averaging about 16 percentage points across the counties that have reported the vast majority of their votes. That is far greater than the roughly five-percentage-point shift toward Republicans in most of the same counties in 2024 when Donald Trump won the presidency...

Katy Padilla Stout, a Democrat, decided to run in a sprawling Texas border district to stop a Republican firearms influencer, Brandon Herrera, from representing Uvalde, where 19 children and two teachers were killed in a 2022 school shooting...

Republican candidates for governor have lost tonight in red states like Iowa and Texas, but there are a couple of bright spots for them in New England. Gov. Kelly Ayotte has won in New Hampshire after working hard to keep President Trump at arm's length. And in Vermont -- yes, Vermont -- the moderate Republican Phil Scott has won a record sixth term.

For a sense of how much the political map of the United States has just been redrawn, consider this: It will be possible to cross the country setting foot only in states that have at least one Democratic senator, except for a 47-mile dash through solid-red Nebraska to get from Percival, Iowa, to Sabetha, Kan...

Democrat Troy Jackson defeats Republican Susan Collins to win the race for Senate in Maine, The New York Times projects. Collins survived the last time Democrats won the national vote by double digits -- back in 2008 -- but she couldn't hold on tonight.

Mitchell Berman, a Wisconsin Democrat, upset Representative Bryan Steil, a Republican, to win a House seat based in the state's southeastern corner, according to The Associated Press...

James Talarico's victory speech hit themes he has hammered throughout his campaign, including that "love is not weak" and that the rich and powerful look to divide people "so we don't notice that they are picking our pockets."...

Senator Marsha Blackburn, a reliable Trump ally, will be Tennessee's first female governor, The Associated Press reported. She held off a crowded field that included Jerri Green, a Democratic Memphis councilwoman, and two independent candidates.

Bobby Pulido, a moderate Democrat and Tejano musician, ousted Representative Monica De La Cruz, a Texas Republican, on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, signaling Latino voters' deep frustration with Republicans and President Trump.

Gov. Phil Scott of Vermont, a Republican, was elected to a sixth term, The Associated Press reported, putting him on a path to become the longest-serving governor in state history...

Senator Dan Sullivan, a Republican, projected optimism at his election night party in Anchorage, with no results in yet for Alaska's Senate race. "We're seeing a blue wave in the Lower 48, and that's not good," he said. "But we all know the great state of Alaska is different."