US midterm elections 2026: voting under way with control of Congress at stake — results follow as polls close

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Voting is under way across all 50 states on Tuesday 3 November 2026 in the US midterm elections. On the ballot: all 435 seats in the House of Representatives; 35 seats in the Senate — the 33 regular seats plus special elections in Florida and Ohio, with Republicans defending 22 of them and Democrats 13; and governorships in 36 states, 18 currently held by each party. Republicans enter election day holding both chambers of Congress: the Senate 53–47 and the House by a narrow 218–214 majority. Democrats need a net gain of four seats in the House and a net gain of four seats in the Senate to take control of each chamber. Polls close in waves, Eastern Time: the first at 6pm in parts of Indiana and Kentucky; 7pm in Georgia, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia and the rest of Indiana and Kentucky; 7:30pm in North Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia; 8pm in a large group of states including Pennsylvania and most of Florida; 9pm in Michigan, Texas and Wisconsin; and last in Alaska at about 1am ET on Wednesday. More than 57 million ballots were cast before election day, through early in-person and mail voting. No results have been reported yet as this page publishes, and no race has been called. Through the night, Vozia will report race calls as they are made by the Associated Press, Reuters, CNN and Fox News, each call attributed to the organisation that made it. Vozia does not declare winners itself, and election-night tallies remain unofficial until states complete canvassing and certification. The most closely watched Senate contests include Maine, where Republican Susan Collins faces Democrat Troy Jackson; Michigan, where Republican Mike Rogers faces Democrat Abdul El-Sayed; Texas, where Democrat James Talarico challenges Republican Ken Paxton; Georgia, where Democratic senator Jon Ossoff defends his seat against Republican Mike Collins; and Florida's special election, where Republican senator Ashley Moody faces Democrat Angie Nixon. The campaign was fought mainly over the economy and the cost of living, with the US-led war with Iran also prominent: in AP-NORC polling, 85% of voters named the economy and 84% the cost of living among their most important issues, and 64% named the Iran war. The Justice Department plans to deploy about 1,000 election monitors nationwide on election day — roughly triple the number used in the last midterms. Some local officials worry the deployment could intimidate voters; the department says those fears are baseless. Flooding in Florida forced polling places to move on election day: the Florida Division of Elections' official emergency page lists relocated polling places in eight counties — Brevard, Broward, Highlands, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Palm Beach and St. Lucie — under the governor's fall-flooding emergency order (Executive Order 26-227), after heavy rain on 1–2 November. USA Today, citing state election officials, puts the moves at at least 20 polling locations in seven counties; the counts differ because the official list grew during the day, and the eight-county list on the state's own page is the one carried here. North Carolina will not post any results before 8:15pm ET — 45 minutes later than planned — because the State Board of Elections, meeting in emergency session, extended voting at disrupted precincts in four counties: the Tabor City precinct in Columbus County by 45 minutes, to 8:15pm, and shorter extensions at precincts in Hertford, Lenoir and Wilson counties, after laptop, computer and printer problems delayed voting. Counties may keep counting ballots, but no results may be posted until every polling site in the state has closed. In Toledo, Ohio, two phoned-in bomb threats closed the polling place at Beverly Elementary School for one hour and 15 minutes: the first call came at about 10:30am local time, voters and poll workers were evacuated while police swept the building with a K-9 unit and found nothing, and voting resumed inside at about 12:15pm. Threatening calls were also made to other Toledo-area schools that are not polling places; police have not said whether the threats are connected.