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Democrats need a net gain of four Senate seats. Republicans need 50, three fewer than they held before the vote.

Before the vote, Republicans hold the Senate 53 to 47, and a 50 to 50 tie goes to the vice president, a Republican. CBS News expects 11 battleground races to decide control and named nine of them. Seven of those nine are Republican seats.

Made the afternoon of Nov. 3, before any polls closed. Every pick on this page is yours, not a result.

Senate control with your picks

Democrats and independents
45
Of these nine, Democrats need six. Republicans need four.
Republicans
46
Pick races to see what time on election night the math would settle.
Before the vote: Republicans 53, Democrats and independents 47. The bar starts with the 26 other races staying with the party that holds them.

Before the vote: Republicans 53, Democrats and independents 47. The tally starts with the 26 other races staying with the party that holds them.

The nine races, in the order polls close

Pick a winner in each. A yellow dot marks a seat that changes party.

Pick races to see what time on election night the math would settle.

Georgia

Held by D
Last polls close 7 p.m. ET
Incumbent on the ballot.
Not picked

North Carolina

Held by R
Last polls close 7:30 p.m. ET
Open seat. Thom Tillis (R) is retiring.
Not picked

Ohio

Held by R
Last polls close 7:30 p.m. ET
Special election for a partial term. Incumbent on the ballot.
Not picked

Maine

Held by R
Last polls close 8 p.m. ET
Incumbent on the ballot.
Not picked

Iowa

Held by R
Last polls close 9 p.m. ET
Open seat. Joni Ernst (R) is retiring.
Not picked

Kansas

Held by R
Last polls close 9 p.m. ET
Incumbent on the ballot.
Not picked

Michigan

Held by D
Last polls close 9 p.m. ET
Open seat. Gary Peters (D) is retiring.
Not picked

Texas

Held by R
Last polls close 9 p.m. ET
Open seat. John Cornyn (R) lost the May 26 Republican runoff.
Not picked

Alaska

Held by R
Last polls close 1 a.m. ET Nov. 4
Incumbent on the ballot.
Not picked
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The other 26 races

Each starts with the party holding it now. Tap one to switch it.

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The House: all 435 seats are up

It takes 218 for control. Before the vote, Democrats hold 214, so they need a net gain of four there too.

214 D2 vacant, 1 independent218 R

Before the vote. The independent, Rep. Kevin Kiley of California, caucuses with Republicans. The vacant seats are Florida’s 20th and Texas’s 23rd districts.

How to read this

Counts assume each winner sits with their party’s group in the Senate. An independent who wins could change the math. Ohio’s and Florida’s races are special elections for partial terms.

The settle time is when the last polls close in the deciding state, in Eastern Time and your own. It is not when a race is called. Close races can take days to count.

Closing times follow each state’s rules as listed by The Green Papers. CBS News listed later times for Iowa, Nebraska and Tennessee; Iowa’s 8 p.m. Central close is confirmed by the ACLU of Iowa.

CBS News said control is likely to come down to 11 battleground races and named these nine. The other two start among the 26, with the party holding them.

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