Democrats added to their supermajorities in the Massachusetts Statehouse on Tuesday, ensuring that they can easily override any vetoes by Republican Gov. Charlie Baker.
Democrats picked up two seats in the House and one in the Senate.
That leaves Republicans with just six seats in the 40-member Senate, down from seven seats at the end of the last legislative session. In the 160-member House, Republicans will now hold 32 seats, down from 34. It takes a two-thirds vote of both bodies to override a veto.
In the Senate, the one Democratic pickup was in the Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex District, where Democrat Becca Rausch narrowly edged out incumbent Republican Sen. Richard Ross by a margin of 2 percent.
Ross, the assistant minority leader, was first elected to the Senate in 2010. Rausch is a health care attorney and a Needham town meeting member.
In her victory speech, Rausch pledged to "fight for reproductive justice, for truly universal health care, for public education funding, for a better transportation system, and for better ways of combating the opioid epidemic."
In the House, the two pickups were in the 18th Essex and the 17th Worcester districts.
In the Essex district, Andover Rep. Jim Lyons, who is one of the most conservative Republicans in the Statehouse and is often a lone voice of dissent on legislation, lost his seat to Democrat Tram Nguyen.
Nguyen, a legal services attorney whose family came to the U.S. as political refugees from Vietnam, beat Lyons 55 percent to 45 percent, with 92 percent of precincts reporting.
In the Worcester district, Republican Kate Campanale of Leicester gave up her seat to run, unsuccessfully, for Worcester Register of Deeds. In the race for that open seat, Democrat David LeBoeuf defeated Republican Paul Fullen, 59 percent to 41 percent.
The Senate will be led by President Karen Spilka, D-Ashland, who assumed the presidency in July.
House Speaker Robert DeLeo, D-Winthrop, has said he will seek another term as speaker, a position he has held since January 2009.
In Western Massachusetts, many of the competitive legislative races were decided in the primary.
In the general election, Democratic Sen. Anne Gobi held onto her seat against a Republican challenger.
In the closest House race, in the 2nd Hampden District, Democratic Rep. Brian Ashe held on to his seat, beating back a challenge by Republican Allison Werder by a margin of 56 to 44 percent.
Republican Reps. Nicholas Boldyga and Todd Smola, Democratic Rep. Angelo Puppolo and independent Rep. Susannah Whipps all beat back challenges to retain their seats.
In the 2nd Hampshire District, Democrat Dan Carey will succeed Democratic Rep. John Scibak.
Democrats already had a supermajority in the state Legislature, and Baker said he's been "pretty good at working colleagues on the other side of the aisle with that supermajority" and he does not anticipate a change.
"I think our objective is going to be to continue to set a tone based on collaboration, and I'm sure we'll find plenty of common ground to work with the Legislature on," Baker said.
This story was updated with Baker's comments.