Democrats won control of the US Senate after Jon Ossoff joined his Georgia colleague Raphael Warnock in beating Republican incumbents in run-off elections, giving incoming president Joe Biden control of both houses of Congress.
Mr Ossoff, who at 33 becomes the youngest person to become a senator in four decades, was declared the victor over one-term Republican David Perdue by the Associated Press on Wednesday afternoon after his lead grew to 25,000 votes as final results were tallied.
The win by Mr Ossoff and Mr Warnock, who becomes the first African-American in Georgia to win a Senate seat, means the chamber will have a 50-50 partisan split, with Kamala Harris, incoming vice-president, having the tiebreaking vote.
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