2010 Midterm election results

GOP takes House, Dems cling to Senate

U.S. Senate
46% 49%
Even though Democrats did not gain a majority win of votes, the incumbent party will maintain control of the Senate with 49 Demo-
cratic members in office. Accounting for the remaining 5 percent, two are Independent senators-elect and, at press time, three states
were still counting ballots, including Alaska, which had an estimated 160 written-in candidates, comprising about 41 percent of votes.

U.S. House of Representatives

55% 42%
Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner will replace Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House with this midterm election turn-
over. The Republican party only needed 218 seats to gain the majority but has emerged from the race with, at the time of print, with
239 seats while Democrats won 185 seats. Votes for 11 remaing seats will be decided as votes continue to be counted.

Louisiana remains a majorly red state

Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Louisiana U.S. Senate Louisiana U.S. House Seats
Louisiana Sec- After a bitter Distr ict 1 “Steve” Scalise
79%
retary of State 5% race, David
Jay Dardenne Vitter kept his Distr ict 2 65% Cedric Richmond
defeated new- Senate seat
43% 57% comer Caro- 38% from “Charlie” Distr ict 3 64% “Jef f ” Landry
line Fayard for Melancon and
lieutenant gov- the 10 other Distr ict 4 62% John Fleming
ernor with 57% candidates
719,243 votes vying for the Distr ict 5 79% Rodney Alexander
to her 540,633. position.
Distr ict 6 66% William “Bill” Cassidy

Information compiled by Amy Olita from www.foxnews.com and www.sos.louisiana.gov.