The preliminary results of the US Congress elections show that the Republicans took over the Senate and are leading in the House of Representatives.

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): The results announced in the Associated Press news agency show that the Republicans won 51 seats in the Senate and the Democrats won 42 seats.

Republicans are also leading with 179 seats, Democrats have won 149 seats so far.

The presidential elections in the United States were held yesterday, and at the same time, the mid-term elections of the Senate were also held in 33 states of the country.

The American people choose not only the next president but also the majority of the members of the Congress. The presidential election race is between Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and former president and Republican candidate Donald Trump.

In this election, the president and 469 members of Congress (all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and slightly more than a third of the 100 members of the Senate) will be elected.

Some news sources in the United States announced that Donald Trump, the candidate of the Republican Party in the US presidential election, succeeded in defeating his Democratic rival in the US presidential election and entering the White House by obtaining the required quorum of electoral votes.