Wire reporting: (AP, via Local 10)

Americans voted Tuesday in midterm elections that will decide which party holds the U.S. House and Senate, with Republicans defending slim majorities in both chambers^1,4,5.

ABC News reported that all 435 House seats are on the ballot and that Republicans hold 218 seats, Democrats 214, with two vacancies after April resignations, and that California Rep. Kevin Kiley, an independent, generally supports Speaker Mike Johnson on the floor¹.

On that accounting, ABC News said Johnson starts election night with an effective 220-215 edge, and that Democrats would need a net gain of three seats to reach 218, a simple majority¹.

AP copy carried by Local 10 and The Philadelphia Inquirer also put the Democratic targets at three House seats and four Senate seats, and said a Democratic Congress could constrain President Donald Trump's agenda in the last two years of his term^4,5.

In the Senate, ABC News said 35 of 100 seats are on the ballot, including 13 held by Democrats and 22 by Republicans, and that Majority Leader John Thune's Republicans hold 53 seats against 45 Democrats plus two independents who caucus with Democrats¹.

ABC News said Thune could lose a net of three Republican seats and still keep the majority because Vice President JD Vance can break ties, while Democrats would need a net gain of four to take the chamber^1,4,5.

AP copy named Senate contests in Alaska, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Ohio and Texas as focal races and said House battlegrounds are scattered^4,5.

Johnson, in remarks ABC News cited from a CBS interview, said Republicans were bringing down the cost of living and providing jobs; House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters this month that Democrats were on track to win the House¹.

WFLA's and KFOR's mapped versions of the same Election Day story could not be read in full from this desk, so their independent wording is not used here^2,3.