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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #000000" class=""><b class="">Midterm elections: Democrats lead popular vote in House by largest margin in history</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #000000" class="">Republicans trail by record 8.9m votes with only one seat undecided</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #ec1a2e" class=""><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/democrats" class="">Democrats</a></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> are set to pull off the largest
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The party leads the Republicans by more than 8.9 million votes across the US,
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<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">raw data</span></a> compiled by the Cook Political Report, an independent, non-partisan political analysis website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Previously, the largest margin of victory was 8.7 million, which came in the 1974 midterm elections after the
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Only one House result remains undeclared. Democrats trail by fewer than 500 votes in California's 23rd congressional district, where there are 15,000 votes left to be counted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">It means the party is on the brink of flipping 40 seats in the House, reaffirming the emerging assessment that this month’s midterms
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<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">amounted to a ”blue wave”</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Utah’s Mia Love became the latest Republican incumbent to fall as Ben McAdams, the Democratic mayor of Salt Lake County, defeated her by fewer than 700 votes in a knife-edge race for the state's fourth congressional
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">She had been billed as one her party's stars when she became its first black congresswoman in 2014. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">As of Thursday, Democratic candidates had polled 59,351,147 votes in House seats across the country in the 2018 midterms, compared to Republicans’ 50,438,143, according to the Cook Political Report. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Democrats are <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/midterms-2018-turnout-democrats-trump-election-republicans-nate-silver-votes-a8641006.html" class="">
<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">on course for more than 60.5 million ballots in total</span></a>, the closest an opposition party has come in midterm elections to matching the president’s popular
vote two years earlier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Turnout across the country the highest since 1914, with Mr Trump’s divisive presidency and rancorous debates over immigration, healthcare and taxes thought to have driven voters to the ballot box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">At least 49.2 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots, the United States Elections Project estimates, compared to 36.4 per cent in 2014.</span></div>
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