Updated 20 October 2026
United StatesElection day · NOV 03, 2026

United States midterm elections, 2026

The midterms of Trump's second term: 35 Senate seats and the whole House, fought in a strongly negative approval environment.

Synthetic call made 14days to polls
Synthetic lead, darker for widerNot simulatedNo race
Alabama · synthetic R+24.0 · polls R+18.0ArizonaArkansas · synthetic R+28.2 · polls R+9.0CaliforniaColorado · synthetic D+47.8ConnecticutDelaware · synthetic D+42.8District of ColumbiaFlorida · synthetic R+14.1 · polls R+5.7Georgia · synthetic D+25.1 · polls D+8.6Idaho · synthetic R+8.2 · polls R+14.0Illinois · synthetic D+31.9 · polls D+15.3IndianaIowa · synthetic R+18.0 · polls D+0.9Kansas · synthetic R+9.6 · polls D+1.2Kentucky · synthetic R+22.2 · polls R+11.4Louisiana · synthetic R+29.6 · polls R+4.7Maine · synthetic D+4.8 · polls D+2.3MarylandMassachusetts · synthetic D+46.8 · polls D+22.3Michigan · synthetic D+9.9 · polls D+3.5Minnesota · synthetic D+15.8 · polls D+3.7Mississippi · synthetic R+9.7 · polls R+4.5MissouriMontana · synthetic R+22.1 · polls R+15.4Nebraska · synthetic I+26.2 · polls R+0.5NevadaNew Hampshire · synthetic D+21.4 · polls D+5.9New Jersey · synthetic D+43.2New Mexico · synthetic D+65.5 · polls D+18.2New YorkNorth Carolina · synthetic D+21.4 · polls D+10.1North DakotaOhio · synthetic R+2.5 · polls D+4.2Oklahoma · synthetic R+26.0 · polls R+23.8Oregon · synthetic D+39.7PennsylvaniaRhode Island · synthetic D+65.0 · polls D+22.1South Carolina · synthetic R+7.1 · polls R+3.3South Dakota · synthetic R+28.5 · polls R+0.5Tennessee · synthetic R+33.9 · polls R+27.5Texas · synthetic D+17.7 · polls D+2.9UtahVermontVirginia · synthetic D+37.3 · polls D+21.8WashingtonWest Virginia · synthetic R+51.4WisconsinWyoming · synthetic R+38.9Alaska · synthetic D+1.5 · polls D+2.7Hawaii
Select a state for its Senate race.

Balance of the Senate

The 65 seats not on the ballot at the party that holds them, with the 35 synthetic calls outlined in violet.

51Democrats50 + VP controls · 1 independent48Republicans

House battleground

No House majority is projected from 24 districts.

Races · 59

Each race has its own page.

Background

Electoral system
House: first-past-the-post single-member districts. Senate: statewide plurality, two per state on staggered six-year classes. Georgia and Louisiana require majority-vote (runoff) outcomes; Maine and Alaska use ranked-choice voting for federal races.
Incumbent
Donald Trump · Republican Party

How the call is made. For every race we build a synthetic electorate that matches the real one, at least 200 voters strong, and ask it how it will vote before polling day. The call is set beside the published polls as they come in, and scored against the official count once it is in.