DSA-Backed Candidates Won 106 Races on Nov. 3, Including 8 House Seats: Full Results

Candidates endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) won 106 of the 162 candidate races the group tracked in the Nov. 3, 2026 general election, according to the organization’s own election tracker as of 4:36 p.m. ET Wednesday. The DSA election results include eight seats in the U.S. House, the mayoralty of Washington, D.C., and 52 state legislative and statewide races. Endorsed candidates lost 36 races, and 20 were still uncalled or headed to a runoff.

The counts below are Boston Report tallies of the DSA tracker’s candidate races with a Nov. 3 poll-closing time. They cover candidates endorsed nationally or by local DSA chapters and exclude ballot measures. Calls were checked against Associated Press race calls as reported by NPR and Newsweek where available. Tracker vote shares are preliminary and will change as counting continues.

DSA House winners: from two members to eight

Before Tuesday, only two sitting members of Congress belonged to DSA: Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Both won re-election. They will be joined in January by six newcomers whose races the AP has called, according to NPR. All eight won in districts that reliably vote Democratic, and several of the newcomers had beaten Democratic incumbents in primaries this summer.

Kiros defeated 15-term Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado’s July primary, and Avila Chevalier narrowly beat Rep. Adriano Espaillat, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, NPR reported. McKinney unseated Rep. Shri Thanedar in Michigan’s primary. Newsweek reported that Avila Chevalier’s roughly 70-point margin exceeded the 66-point margin Espaillat posted in the same district in 2024, and that Ocasio-Cortez’s 56.7-point margin was wider than her 38.4-point win in 2024.

The biggest statewide loss came in Florida, where Republican Sen. Ashley Moody defeated state Rep. Angie Nixon, a DSA member, in the special election for the seat Marco Rubio left to become secretary of state. With 99% counted, Moody had 50.9% to Nixon’s 48%, Newsweek reported. Nixon’s race does not appear in DSA’s tracker. Michigan voters also elected Democrat Abdul El-Sayed in a closely watched U.S. Senate race in Michigan.

Mayors, legislators and local offices

Janeese Lewis George won the D.C. mayor’s race with 84.3% in the tracker, and Yousef Rabhi won the Ann Arbor, Michigan, mayoralty. The Forward reported a mayoral win for David Morales in Providence, Rhode Island. In Los Angeles, Nithya Raman led the mayor’s race with 51.1%, but the DSA tracker still listed the race as uncalled, so this report treats it as pending. DSA-endorsed mayoral candidates lost in Louisville (Shameka Parrish-Wright, 42.4%), Santa Barbara, Fontana and Boulder.

Down the ballot, endorsed candidates won 52 of 63 state legislative and statewide races, including seats in the New York Assembly and the Michigan, Oregon, Washington and Vermont legislatures. The 10 state-level losses were in Alabama, Florida, Illinois (two), Indiana, Kansas, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont. Six of them were within about 7 points of 50%. An Illinois House race (District 70) remained uncalled. In Austin, Misael Ramos advanced to a city council runoff.

By the numbers

TBR calculations from the tracker data: endorsed candidates won 65% of all 162 candidate races and 75% of the 142 races already decided. Results varied sharply by level. Federal and state candidates won 60 of 70 decided races (86%). City candidates won 26 of 46 decided races (57%), and 13 city contests, most of them in California, were still being counted. California’s top-two system put several DSA candidates against fellow Democrats, which the Forward noted produced tighter races there.

Other tallies differ because they use different scopes. The New Republic, counting ballot measures and down-ballot races, reported 149 wins in 294 contests with 37 undecided. At 1 a.m. ET the DSA tracker showed 63 wins and 21 losses, according to the group’s Democratic Left blog.

What the DSA results mean for Congress and the Democratic Party

An eight-member bloc remains a small share of the 435-seat U.S. House. NPR reported that the bloc could have outsized influence in a narrow Democratic majority and less in a larger one, and that none of the incoming DSA-endorsed members had committed to backing Rep. Hakeem Jeffries for speaker. Final control of the chamber depends on races still being counted, tracked on our midterm elections page.

In a statement posted to X early Wednesday, DSA said, “Over 50 DSA victories tonight prove socialism can win in the U.S.,” adding, “Tomorrow, we continue organizing, fighting, and winning for the working class!” At a New York City watch party, NYC-DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo said “2028 is ours for the taking,” the Washington Times reported.

Jeffries said before the election on NBC’s “Meet the Press”: “I don’t support the DSA agenda, as has been articulated by the DSA itself.” He added that members elected in Democratic primaries “will be part of the House Democratic Caucus. It’s going to be a broad caucus,” according to The Hill.

Republicans have used the group as a line of attack. Responding to a DSA platform this fall, House Speaker Mike Johnson wrote on X, “Communism is no longer a far fetched threat. It is here on our SHORES!” the AP reported. National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Mike Marinella said in a statement that House Democrats would “spend every day trying to explain away their radical socialist record.”

Sources

• DSA National Electoral Commission, Election Tracker 2026 (data feed accessed Nov. 4, 4:36 p.m. ET)
• NPR: DSA candidates elected to House
• Newsweek: Full list of socialists who ran for office
• The Forward: DSA wins in Congress
• The Hill: Jeffries rejects DSA platform

Additional sources

• The New Republic: Every democratic socialist who won a national race
• Democratic Left: Election live blog
• Washington Times: DSA boasts 50-plus election wins
• AP via Times Union: Republicans decry DSA platform
• The New York Ledger: Top Democrats brush aside DSA friction