# Five races still too close to call in US midterms

> Democrats swept the midterms but several Senate and House races remain undecided, with votes still being counted in Alaska, Mississippi, Colorado and beyond.
- Title: Five races still too close to call in US midterms · BBC News
- Summary: Democrats swept the midterms but several Senate and House races remain undecided, with votes still being counted in Alaska, Mississippi, Colorado and beyond.
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- Source: BBC News — https://bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6vg0y2nr445o
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## Democrats win but races remain undecided
Democrats have swept the midterm elections and flipped control of both chambers of Congress. However, several critical races were still too close to call on Thursday as votes continued being counted.
## Mississippi Senate race extremely tight
Democrat Scott Colom leads Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith by just over one thousand one hundred votes. Mississippi has until November tenth to count provisional and late-arriving mail ballots.
## Colom could make history in Mississippi
If Colom wins, he would be the first Black US senator elected in Mississippi since eighteen seventy-five and the first Democrat since nineteen eighty-two.Mississippi has the largest percentage of African Americans of any US state.
## Alaska Senate race also extremely close
Democrat Mary Peltola, a former congresswoman and Native American, leads Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan by just over six hundred votes with more ballots still to be counted in Alaska.

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## Alaska race marred by ballot confusion
The New York Times reported allegations that Peltola and Alaska Democrats recruited an independent candidate named Dan Sullivan to confuse voters and siphon votes from Republican Senator Dan Sullivan.
## House races in Colorado, Tennessee, Arizona tight
Trump ally Lauren Boebert trails Democrat Eileen Laubacher in Colorado's Fourth District with seven percent of votes left to count.In Tennessee's Fourth District, Representative Scott DesJarlais trails Democrat Victoria Broderick.
## Republican losses would expand Democratic majority
A loss for Boebert, DesJarlais and other Republicans in House races in Nevada and Ohio would mean an even larger majority for Democrats in the chamber and a bigger rejection of Trump and his Make…
## California billionaire wealth tax still undecided
California Proposition forty would require a one-time five percent tax on the net worth of roughly two hundred billionaires to raise tens of billions of dollars.
## Key takeaway

Democrats won control of Congress in the midterms but several critical races in Alaska, Mississippi and House districts remain too close to call as votes are still being counted.