Experts Give Analysis of the 2022 Midterm Elections

The U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Nov. 9, 2022. Samuel Corum/Getty Images

Now that Washington is officially divided, with Democrats having a larger-than-expected majority in the Senate and Republicans controlling the House, analysts are trying to decipher what happened during the midterm elections.

According to most of the post-election data that exists, particularly that from the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago which polled tens of thousands of voters for The Associated Press, Independents broke for Democrats by at least 4 percentage points.