US midterm elections 2018: All the latest updates

Republicans retain Senate control, shattering Democrat’s hope of anti-Trump wave sweeping them into the majority.

US has voted in midterm elections that will help define the remaining two years of President Donald Trump’s first term in office.

All 435 seats in the House of Representatives were up for grabs on Tuesday, as well as 35 seats in the Senate, and 39 governorships in 36 states and three US territories.

Trump’s Republican party lost a majority in the House of Representatives, but held onto the Senate.