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Three days after US midterms, where do House, Senate races stand?

Democrat Tina Kotek has won the race to be Oregon's next governor, defeating a Republican in an unexpectedly close race [Claire Rush/The Associated Press]

Three days after polls closed in the United States midterm elections, neither Democrats nor Republicans had attained enough victories to claim control of either the House of Representatives or the Senate.

Counting was set to continue across the country on Friday, with Republicans closing in on the 218 seats needed to reach what is projected to be a far less than expected majority in the House. By late on Thursday, they had taken 211 seats compared with the Democrats’ 192 in the 435-seat chamber.

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