2026 Midterms

last updated 7 Nov 2026

The 2026 midterm elections produced the largest partisan shift in Congress since 1994, with Democrats flipping both chambers of Congress for the first time since 2006.
House of Representatives: Democrats secured the largest House majority since 2008, winning approximately 258 seats (a net gain of 40+ seats). This is the biggest single-party House majority in 33 years. Senate: Democrats gained a net 7 seats to reach 54 seats, flipping historic Republican strongholds including Texas, Kansas, South Carolina, Ohio, Iowa, Maine, and North Carolina.

As of Saturday 11/7, 4 days after the election there were still uncalled races.
2 senate, 16 house, 1 Governor. I'm not going to list state by state here.
270toWin is the top dedicated trackers for detailed, state-by-state 2026 election results. MultiState.us organizes every race by state and date, highlighting chamber control shifts and close races, while 270toWin provides interactive maps and live results for Senate, House, and gubernatorial contests.

I liked this AP chart to view the shift by age between parties from the 2024 election and the 2026 midterm.
Hispanic voters, who shifted toward Trump in 2024 as well, moved toward Democrats this year, as did Black voters - particularly Black men. Many ModeratesÑ who overwhelmingly said Congress was not doing enough to put checks and balances on the presidency - backed Democratic candidates nationally and were important for Democratic victories in several key Senate races.
Source: Young voters led a sharp shift toward Democrats in the 2026 midterms | AP

For the 2026 midterm elections held on November 3, 2026, preliminary data from the University of Florida Election Lab indicates that 49.42% of eligible voters cast a ballot, totaling approximately 124.3 million votes. This marks the second-highest midterm turnout in over a century, just behind the 50.05% recorded in 2018.
In the 2024 U.S. presidential election, approximately 65.3% of the citizen voting-age population voted.

The diverse statistics include the election of seven African American senators, five African American governors, 17 women governors, one Native American governor in New Mexico, two Latino governors in California and Texas, and 116 Democratic women in the U.S. Congress.
See: Minority Winers

RACE:

The 2026 U.S. electorate is 61% White, 16% Hispanic, 12% Black, and 5% Asian, per Pew Research Center. The White share has declined since 2006, while Hispanic and Asian shares have nearly doubled; the Black share has remained stable.

2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI) State Map