US midterms: Democrats win the House as well as the Senate, taking full control of Congress

Democrats have won control of both chambers of the US Congress in the midterm elections held on Tuesday 3 November, the first of President Donald Trump's second term. This report draws on Roll Call, the Guardian, NBC News, BBC News, Gothamist, Reuters (in copy published by Yahoo News), CBS News, FOX 5 New York and ABC7 New York. ## Update: Westchester count begins Election officials in Westchester County, New York, began counting the ballots that polling-place scanners could not accept on election day, under a court order requiring the count to start by 11am Wednesday local time (2.30am ACDT Thursday), CBS News reports. The ballots had been sealed in bags and kept under police supervision overnight. County Executive Ken Jenkins said a bipartisan team would review "the decisions and failures that led to this debacle and determine where accountability lies", CBS News reports. Republican Mike Lawler had already conceded the 17th district to Democrat Cait Conley, Gothamist reports. ## The House and Senate The Associated Press called the House for Democrats at 4.56pm ACDT on Wednesday, Roll Call reports, after NBC News and CBS News projected it earlier. House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries said voters had "made clear they've had enough of the extremism, enough of the corruption", Roll Call reports. Trump told CBS News: "My message is, congratulations to the Democrats, and I look forward to working with you for the good of our country," Roll Call reports. Democrats flipped Senate seats in Texas, Kansas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Ohio and Iowa, the Guardian reports, citing the AP. In Maine, Republican Susan Collins conceded to Democrat Troy Jackson, and in Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed beat Republican Mike Rogers to become the country's first Muslim senator, the Guardian reports.