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Election Day results: NBC News Decision Desk projects 75 House seats for Democrats, 32 for Republicans, with 218 needed for majority (unofficial; NBC last update 9:06 PM ET)
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| Score | Meaning | Major U.S. outlets that covered it |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | Fully overlooked | 0 of 13 outlets |
| 8 | Barely covered | 1 outlet |
| 6, 5 | Lightly covered ← this story | 2 outlets (6) · 3 outlets (5) |
| 4, 3 | Covered | 4 outlets (4) · 5 outlets (3) |
| 2, 1, 0 | Widely covered | 6–7 outlets (2) · 8–10 outlets (1) · 11–13 outlets (0) |
Provisional: Counted only pages where our own direct fetch (snapshot saved) showed a dated House seat tally: NBC News and ABC News. Unverified: The New York Times and NPR (tally seen only in search-engine copies), Fox News and Bloomberg (tally not readable), Reuters, WSJ and USA Today (blocked or not found). Checked with no tally, not counted: AP, CBS News, CNN, The Washington Post. The score may go down on recheck.
UPDATE (Nov. 3, 9:06 p.m. ET): NBC News' 2026 House results page now shows "Democrats 75 seats" and "Republicans 32 seats", with "Number of seats for majority: 218" ("Last update 9:06 PM ET"). Projections by the NBC News Decision Desk (data from The Associated Press). Not an AP tally and not AP race calls. Unofficial and changing.
Earlier (NBC last update 8:52 PM ET): NBC News' 2026 House results page shows "Democrats 60 seats" and "Republicans 27 seats", with "Number of seats for majority: 218". The page reads "Last update 8:52 PM ET". Projections by the NBC News Decision Desk (data from The Associated Press). These are NBC News Decision Desk projections, not an AP tally and not AP race calls. Results are unofficial and changing.
Original reporting
Status history (5 events, ET)
- Published as breaking news
- O-Score check: 8 (Barely covered) · 1 of 13 outlets counted
- O-Score recheck: 1 (Widely covered) · 10 of 13 outlets counted
- O-Score recheck: 6 (Lightly covered) · 2 of 13 outlets counted
- Breaking period ends (24 hours) (scheduled)
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- Nov 3, 2026 · Covered by NBC News
- Nov 3, 2026 · Covered by ABC News
- 8:53 PM ET, Nov 3, 2026 · OVERLOOKED published this story
- 8:53 PM ET, Nov 3, 2026 · O-Score check: 1 of 13 outlets had it (score 8)
- 9:06 PM ET, Nov 3, 2026 · O-Score recheck: no new outlets found
- 9:15 PM ET, Nov 3, 2026 · O-Score recheck: no new outlets found
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