US elections: US Senate control on knife’s edge in voting for Congress

Also projected as winners by the networks, as expected, were Republican Senators Rand Paul in Kentucky, Tim Scott in South Carolina, James Lankford in Oklahoma, as well as Democrats Patrick Leahy in Vermont and Richard Blumenthal in Connecticut.

Republicans have controlled the 100-seat Senate since 2015, but they had to defend far more seats this year than did the Democrats. Some analysts have raised the possibility of the 2016 election season ending with a 50-50 split in the Senate. In such an outcome, the new US vice president – either Democrat Tim Kaine or Republican Mike Pence – would be the tiebreaker in the Senate and determine control of that chamber.

(Sourced from agencies, feature image courtesy:breaking.com)