Early voting jumps across Senate battlegrounds as millions more Americans vote ahead of Election Day
University of Florida analysts attribute the record turnout to high engagement among 11 million Democratic voters and 8 million Republicans participating in competitive Senate races across the country.
- The University of Florida Election Lab reported that early voting reached more than 46 million on Election Day, Tuesday, November 3, 2026, eclipsing the 2022 midterm record of 45.9 million ballots cast.
- During the pandemic, many Democrats opted for mail-in ballots while Republicans favored in-person voting, establishing voting patterns that complicate current efforts to interpret early turnout as a direct proxy for candidate support.
- Election experts warn against treating early turnout as a definitive predictor, noting that only 27 states track party registration, which reflects voter affiliation rather than actual candidate support in midterm contests.
- The U.S. Department of Justice faces criticism from voting rights advocates who contend that deploying approximately 1,000 personnel to monitor voting could intimidate voters and interfere with state-run election processes.
- Voters in all 435 congressional districts decide control of the U.S. House, with campaigns shifting final resources to maximize turnout in races that will define the legislative agenda for the next two years.
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58 million voters had already voted in advance. Few reported incidents. Rejected by the Supreme Court an appeal by Republicans in California to stop the counting of votes in advance
The Americans have begun to vote in the midterm legislative elections in the US, the so-called midterms, because they are held in the middle of the legislature; it will be a long process, since the country has nine time zones. The schools of the west coast, the later ones, close their ballots at 8 a.m., ... Continue reading "Record of the early vote, with 51.3 million ballots, in a midterms that will decide the control of the US Congress"
More than 59 million people voted early in the half-term elections on Tuesday, which continued, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.
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