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
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
The 24 battleground districts with district polling. Select one for its race.
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.