United States Midterm Elections of 2018

Democrats gained 40 House seats with the highest midterm turnout since 1914.

Overview

Driven by opposition to Trump and energized by record numbers of women candidates, the highest midterm turnout in over a century, around 50 percent, flipped the House with a 40-seat Democratic gain, the party's largest since Watergate 1974, while Republicans gained two Senate seats on a favorable map. Suburban districts, especially educated ones, swung sharply. The blue wave election produced the most diverse Congress to date and the investigative platform of Trump's second half-term.