Will it be like 1994 all over again?

Time to pull out the history file to see if the political wave Republicans are riding tonight will prove as powerful as that of 1994.

Or stronger.

Looking back, it appears the Grand Old Party picked up 54 seats in the House and nine in the Senate on Election Day 1994. The GOP got a 10th Senate seat a few months later when Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby swapped parties.

Washington state's delegation in the House wound up with 7 Republicans and 2 Democrats - Norm Dicks and Jim McDermott.

To see a historic division in the U.S. House, go here.

And for the U.S. Senate go here.

In the state Legislature, 1994 affected the two chambers differently. In the Senate, Democrats lost three seats but still wound up with 25 enough for a majority.

Democrats suffered huge losses in the House. By the time the dust settled - a couple Rs defected in early 1995 -- the Dems found themselves going from a majority of 65 to a minority of 32.