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VOA's Celia Mendoza reports from New York City, November 8, 2022, on Election Day.

Millions of Americans are voting on Tuesday, with political control of Congress at stake along with the philosophical tone that will shape the Washington political debate during the second half of President Joe Biden’s four-year term.

Polls began to close in early evening, first in the Midwestern state of Indiana and in neighboring Kentucky, then in the southeastern states of Virginia, Georgia and Florida. But people were still voting in much of the country.

All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are at stake, and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate. More than 45 million people cast ballots in early in-person or mail-in voting before Tuesday’s official Election Day. Some analysts suggest the total vote in contests across the country could top the record 115 million tally set in the 2018 midterm elections.

Democrats now narrowly hold control of both chambers, as well as the White House. Typically, parties that control both the executive and legislative branches of government lose seats during midterm elections.

Preelection polling showed Republicans are likely to take hold of the House and possibly the Senate, an outcome that in the past has led to protracted political gridlock when one political party controls Congress, or at least one chamber, and the other party holds the White House.

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