In the 2022 Oregon gubernatorial race, Christine Drazan finished within four percentage points of Tina Kotek, while independent candidate Betsy Johnson won 8% of the vote

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Control of 35 Senate seats, 36 governorships, and all 435 House of Representatives seats were contested in the 2026 United States midterm elections

Pre-election polling in the 2020 Maine Senate race showed Democratic challenger Sara Gideon leading before incumbent Republican Susan Collins won reelection

Dan Osborn lost the 2024 Nebraska Senate race against Republican Senator Deb Fischer by fewer than seven percentage points

Democrat Jocelyn Benson and Republican John James ran as opposing candidates in the 2026 Michigan gubernatorial election

Sherrod Brown lost his Ohio Senate seat to Republican Bernie Moreno in 2024

Mike Rogers lost Michigan's 2024 Senate race to Democrat Elissa Slotkin by 19,000 votes

Republican challenger Cory Gardner defeated incumbent Democratic Senator Mark Udall in the 2014 Colorado United States Senate election

As of November 2026, the United States Democratic Party had not won a Senate election in Texas since 1988

Brian Fitzpatrick won election to Pennsylvania's 1st congressional district in 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024

Donald Trump won the national popular vote and all seven swing states in the 2024 United States presidential election

New York's 17th congressional district voted for Kamala Harris in 2024 while electing Republican Representative Mike Lawler to Congress

Pete Ricketts served two terms as governor of Nebraska before his appointment to the United States Senate in 2024

Donald Trump opposed incumbent Georgia Governor Brian Kemp in Georgia's 2022 Republican gubernatorial primary

Republican Governor Phil Scott campaigned for a sixth term in 2026 against Progressive challenger Amanda Janoo in Vermont

Republican Joe Lombardo unseated Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak in the 2022 Nevada gubernatorial election

Democratic Governor Tina Kotek faced a rematch against Republican Christine Drazan in the 2026 Oregon gubernatorial election

In the 2014 United States midterm elections, the Republican Party gained nine seats in the United States Senate

Republican Representative Byron Donalds faced Democratic candidate David Jolly in the 2026 Florida gubernatorial race

A 2024 initiative seeking to repeal Alaska's top-four primary and ranked-choice voting failed by fewer than 750 votes out of approximately 321,000 votes cast

Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin projected Democrats with a 90.2% chance to win a majority of governorships in the 2026 midterms