Results of the 2010,US mid-term elections,

Full results from the Associated Press. The BBC may call some results independently, raising the possibility of discrepancies.

Tags: Results of the 2010, US mid-term elections, including the Senate, House of Representatives, governors 39; elections and ballot initiatives in individual states.

All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are up for election, as well as 37 Senate seats, and 37 states are also electing governors.

The first polls close at 2200 GMT on Tuesday (1800 Eastern Time) in parts of Florida and Kentucky. By 0400 GMT on Wednesday (midnight ET) only part of Alaska will still be voting, and the final polls close at 0500 GMT (0100 ET).

Nineteen Senate seats held by Democrats are being contested: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Nevada, New York (X2), North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.

Eighteen Senate seats held by Republicans are being contested: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota,