Midterm election key takeaways: Control of US Congress on a knife’s edge

Control of Congress was on a knife’s edge, dependent on the outcome of three Senate races and about a dozen in the House

The US Capitol in Washington (Mariam Zuhaib/AP)

After an expensive, exhaustive and highly negative US midterm election campaign, nothing is quite certain yet, most importantly which party will control Congress or whether majority power will be split between the House of Representatives and the Senate.

But some things were obvious. Republicans did not achieve the “wave” election that many had predicted. Democrats won major statewide races and flipped a Senate seat in Pennsylvania. Abortion remained an animating issue.