NPR reported Thursday that Alaska and Mississippi’s Senate races and several House contests remained unresolved, leaving the final makeup of Congress unsettled.
Democrats were poised to hold a strong majority in the next Congress, NPR reported.
NPR said Mississippi was still counting affidavit ballots, the state’s equivalent of provisional ballots. The two leading candidates remained fewer than 2,000 votes apart.
Several House races still awaited Associated Press calls, NPR reported. In some California districts, both remaining candidates belonged to the same party, settling the party of the seat while leaving the winner unknown. Other contests had tight margins or too few counted ballots for a call, the outlet said.
Alaska’s four-candidate Senate race uses ranked-choice voting, and the count had yet to produce a candidate above 50%. NPR said another tabulation could take place later in November.
