United States: Democrats win Senate seats in Texas, South Carolina and Georgia as counting continues Democrats lead the count while many ballots remain uncounted and several states are still undecided. Current numbers show 81 House Republicans, 125 Democrats, and 36 Senate Republicans, 44 Democrats. The New York Times forecast gives Democrats an 82 percent chance of winning the Senate and a 94 percent chance of a majority in the House of Representatives. In Texas, a Republican state, Democrat James Talarico won the Senate seat for the first time in 32 years, with a million more votes. In South Carolina, Democrat Annie Andrews defeated Darlene Graham, Lindsey Graham's sister, to become the state's first female Democratic senator in 21 years.