India, Nov. 6 -- The Democratic Party won 85 of the 100 congressional districts with the largest Indian-American populations in Tuesday's midterm elections, up from the 79 it held going into the vote, an HT analysis of election data found. The party held all but one of its own seats in these districts and took seven from Republicans, whose tally fell to 15 from 21.

HT's analysis ranks all 435 House districts by their Asian-Indian population, using the Census Bureau's 2020-24 American Community Survey. The top 100 districts are home to more than half of the country's Indian-American population. They stretch from Silicon Valley, where California's 17th district alone has about 146,000, to New Jersey and the suburbs of Dallas, Houston, Atla...