Now that the 2025 elections are over, we can definitively say: This was a very good year for Democrats. According to an analysis by Daniel Nichanian for Bolts , Democrats flipped 21 percent of Republican-held state legislative seats—a huge upset and a harbinger of midterm doom for the president’s party. On the Republican side, candidates managed to flip exactly zero seats: not in New Jersey, where Bolts reports the party had high hopes, and not in newly red Trump-voting districts in New York.