Follow the Money, the results: who won, who's funding the winners, and what the money did

Published November 4, 2026. All results are unofficial. They are vote counts from the Associated Press and projections by the NBC News Decision Desk as of 3:28 a.m. Eastern on November 4, and Philadelphia figures from the City Commissioners as of 2:21 a.m. Some votes are still being counted, and every state certifies its results later this month. Campaign money is from the last reports filed with the Federal Election Commission before Election Day, covering through October 14.

This is part of a True News series following the money in the 2026 election. True News has no political affiliation, endorses no party or candidate, and reports results the same way for every candidate.

The short version

Democrats won control of both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House. In the Senate, Democrats have 54 seats to Republicans' 44, a net gain of seven, with Alaska and Mississippi not yet called. In the House, Democrats had won 231 seats to Republicans' 144 with races still being counted, a net gain of 29 so far. 218 is a majority. Democrats also flipped four governor's offices: Georgia, Iowa, Ohio and Texas. In Georgia, Keisha Lance Bottoms became the first Black woman elected governor in U.S. history.

In Pennsylvania, Gov. Josh Shapiro won a second term, and Democrats won all four of the state's battleground U.S. House seats, every one held by a Republican.

The Senate

Results below are vote shares from the AP count with the share of the expected vote counted, next to the final polling average from Election Day's Follow the Money and each campaign's fundraising through October 14.

• Texas (flipped to Democrats): James Talarico 55.0%, Ken Paxton 43.1% (90.6% counted). Final average: Talarico +2.6. Talarico raised $146,349,912; Paxton $22,327,474. Outside groups spent about $200.7 million against Talarico, and he won by about 12 points.

• Ohio (flipped): Sherrod Brown 49.7%, Sen. Jon Husted 45.5% (97.2%). Average: Brown +2.8. Brown raised $68,409,200; Husted $19,894,786.

• Michigan (held by Democrats): Abdul El-Sayed 52.1%, Mike Rogers 45.9% (90.0%). Average: El-Sayed +4.9. El-Sayed raised $53,830,872; Rogers $23,016,439.

• Maine (flipped): Troy Jackson 53.9%, Sen. Susan Collins 46.0% (84.1%). Average: Jackson +3.6. Jackson raised $26,872,874 since July; Collins $25,225,468.

• Kansas (flipped): Adam Hamilton 50.9%, Sen. Roger Marshall 46.1% (96.9%). Average: Hamilton +4.1. Hamilton raised $19,175,044; Marshall $7,546,611.

• Iowa (flipped): Josh Turek 50.5%, Ashley Hinson 46.4% (97.5%). Average: Turek +1.1. Turek raised $24,290,521; Hinson $14,147,973.

• South Carolina (flipped): Annie Andrews 51.1%, Sen. Darline Graham 46.7% (99.0%). Most fall polls had Graham ahead by 1 to 3 points. Andrews raised $24,216,841; Graham's campaign $1,917,646.

• Nebraska (held by Republicans): Sen. Pete Ricketts 50.1%, independent Dan Osborn 44.0% (86.5%). The final New York Times/Siena poll had Ricketts +6. Ricketts raised $14,546,959, $7,296,348 of it his own money; Osborn $11,029,845.

• North Carolina (flipped): Roy Cooper 58.7%, Michael Whatley 39.1% (99.0%).

• New Hampshire (held by Democrats): Chris Pappas 56.2%, John E. Sununu 41.9% (89.7%). Pappas raised $23,703,648; Sununu $5,681,528.

• Georgia (held by Democrats): Sen. Jon Ossoff 58.9%, Mike Collins 41.1% (97.0%). Ossoff raised $115 million since January 2025 to Collins's $6.5 million, according to OpenSecrets.

• Minnesota (held by Democrats): Peggy Flanagan 53.7%, Michele Tafoya 43.5% (98.8%). Tafoya raised $12,501,786; Flanagan $11,563,963.

Not yet called: Alaska, where Sen. Dan Sullivan leads Mary Peltola 48.7% to 47.5% with 66.1% of the vote counted (Peltola raised $36,887,509; Sullivan $14,107,205), and Mississippi, where Democrat Colom and Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith are tied at 48.9% with 95.6% counted.

The House

NBC News projects Democrats will finish with about 258 seats, which would be about 81 more than Republicans. Its count of called races stood at 231 Democrats and 144 Republicans.

Pennsylvania's four battleground seats all flipped to Democrats (AP count):

• PA-1 (Bucks County): Bob Harvie 52.7%, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick 47.3% (98% counted). Fitzpatrick raised $8,021,376 to Harvie's $3,167,942, the only one of the four where the candidate who raised more lost.

• PA-7 (Lehigh Valley): Bob Brooks 56.0%, Rep. Ryan Mackenzie 44.0% (97.5%). Brooks raised $5,347,353; Mackenzie $5,296,664.

• PA-8 (Scranton, Wilkes-Barre): Paige Cognetti 54.4%, Rep. Rob Bresnahan 45.6% (97.6%). Cognetti raised $7,502,359; Bresnahan $6,519,139.

• PA-10 (Harrisburg, York): Janelle Stelson 55.0%, Rep. Scott Perry 45.0% (98.8%). Stelson raised $9,234,260; Perry $6,791,519.

Pennsylvania's House delegation goes from 10 Republicans and 7 Democrats to 11 Democrats and 6 Republicans.

In Philadelphia, Rep. Brendan Boyle won PA-2 with 80.3% to 19.4% for Jessica Arriaga (all 737 divisions counted). In PA-3, state Rep. Chris Rabb won the open seat Rep. Dwight Evans is leaving, with 93.6% to independent D. Mahoney's 6.4% (96.6% counted).

Governors

• Pennsylvania: Gov. Josh Shapiro 60.2%, Stacy Garrity 38.5% (95.3% counted). Shapiro spent almost $70 million since the start of 2025 to Garrity's about $7 million. More than 80% of Garrity's money from mid-September to mid-October came from the skill-games industry, Spotlight PA found. In Philadelphia, Shapiro won by 78.4 points, with all 1,703 divisions counted.

• Georgia (flipped): Keisha Lance Bottoms 54.2%, Rick Jackson 45.8% (97.0%). ABC News reports she is projected to be the first Black woman elected governor of any U.S. state. The final polls had the race within 2 points. True News congratulates Keisha Lance Bottoms on becoming the first Black woman elected governor in U.S. history.

• Texas (flipped): Hinojosa 52.8%, Gov. Greg Abbott 45.8% (92.2%). The final polls had the race within 1 to 3 points either way.

• Ohio (flipped): Acton 52.0%, Vivek Ramaswamy 44.7% (97.2%).

• Iowa (flipped): Sand 55.5%, Lahn 44.5% (97.9%).

• Michigan: Jocelyn Benson 54.2%, John James 44.1% (90.7%).

• Wisconsin: David Crowley 54.1%, Tom Tiffany 45.9% (98.5%).

• Arizona: Gov. Katie Hobbs 56.8%, Andy Biggs 41.6% (73.2%).

• New Hampshire: Gov. Kelly Ayotte (R) 51.1%, Warmington 47.2% (89.7%).

Not yet called: Nevada, where Democrat Ford leads Gov. Joe Lombardo 51.5% to 44.5% with 68.2% counted, and Kansas, where Democrat Holscher leads Republican Masterson 50.3% to 49.7% with 96.2% counted.

Pennsylvania's legislature

Democrats say they won both chambers in Harrisburg, which would give Shapiro a Democratic legislature for the first time in his tenure. Republicans held the state Senate 27 to 23 going in, and Democrats said they flipped four Republican-held seats. As of midnight, the Associated Press had called only one of the contested Senate races and had not called dozens of state House races, so control is not official. Spotlight PA had reported that Students First, funded by Jeff Yass, spent $23.5 million this year, much of it backing Republican state senators. Results for those individual seats were not yet reported.

Philadelphia

Philadelphia voters approved both city charter questions, with all 1,703 divisions counted. Question 1, on city contracting, passed with 78.8% yes. Question 2, making Creative Philadelphia a permanent office in the city charter, passed with 83.6% yes.

In the Northeast, Republican state Rep. Martina White held the 170th District, 57.6% to 42.3%.

What the money did

In 10 of the 11 called Senate battlegrounds with fundraising figures in this story, the candidate whose campaign raised more won: Texas, Ohio, Michigan, Maine, Kansas, Iowa, South Carolina, Nebraska, New Hampshire and Georgia. The exception is Minnesota, where Tafoya out-raised Flanagan and lost by about 10 points. In Alaska, which is not yet called, Peltola raised more than twice what Sullivan did and trails.

Outside money and the result did not line up the same way. Conservative outside groups out-spent liberal ones by $360 million nationally, and Democrats won both chambers. In Texas, outside groups spent about $200.7 million against Talarico, more than his campaign raised all cycle, and he won by about 12 points.

Democratic candidates also did better than the final polls in most of these races. In 7 of the 9 Senate battlegrounds that had a final average or a final poll in True News's Election Day story, the Democrat's margin beat it: Texas (average +2.6, result about +12), Ohio, Michigan, Maine, Kansas, Iowa and South Carolina, where most polls had the Republican ahead. In Nebraska, the result matched the final New York Times/Siena poll. In Alaska, the average had Peltola up 1 point, and she trails.

In Pennsylvania, all four Republican House incumbents lost. Three were out-raised by their challengers. The fourth, Fitzpatrick, raised more than twice what Harvie did and still lost.

What comes next

The full cost of the election will be known on December 3, when campaigns and outside groups file their post-general reports covering through November 23. True News will report the final cost of each race, the debts left over, and who's funding the winners. OpenSecrets has projected $11.9 billion in total spending.

How True News counted

Results are the Associated Press vote count with projections by the NBC News Decision Desk, as of 3:28 a.m. Eastern on November 4, from NBC's Senate, House, Pennsylvania House and governor results pages. "Flipped" means the seat changes party. In the charts, blue is Democrats, red is Republicans, and gray or pale bars are races not yet called. Philadelphia results are the City Commissioners' unofficial count as of 2:21 a.m., as reported by the Northeast Times. Some candidates appear by last name only where the results page gave only a last name.

Campaign money is each campaign's cycle total from FEC reports through October 14. Polling averages and the Texas outside-spending figure are from True News's Election Day Follow the Money story, where each is linked to its source.

All results are unofficial until each state certifies them. True News will update this story as remaining races are called.

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