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Election 2026 live results: Dems take back Congress, El-Sayed wins Senate seat in Michigan
Collins is the five-term senator from Maine.
Democrats have won several key races in the high-stakes midterm elections -- with ABC News projecting that Democrats will take control of the Senate and the House.
Key Headlines
- El-Sayed says he faced 'one of the ugliest campaigns we've seen in our lifetimes'
- Trump congratulates Democrats, says they 'did a good job'
- Iowa Democrat Josh Turek vows to protect the 'American dream'
- Peltola addresses supporters in Alaska, says race 'feels good' as count continues
- Democrat Abdul El-Sayed projected to win Michigan Senate race
This midterm election is most expensive ever, federal campaign spending data shows
An analysis of Federal Election Commission data by campaign finance tracker, OpenSecrets projects that spending on the 2025-2026 election cycle will reach about $12 billion -- meaning that, at the federal level, this cycle is slated to be the most expensive midterm election on record.
An analysis by AdImpact that incorporated gubernatorial elections found it to be the most expensive cycle on record, surpassing even the 2023-2024 general election cycle.
Advertising spending across House, Senate and gubernatorial races this cycle cost about $7.1 billion, according to an analysis by the Wesleyan Media Project. About $1.4 billion of that ad spending occurred late in the cycle, between Oct. 12 and Oct. 25.
-ABC News' Will Lennon