Midterm Election Day: Control of Congress, 36 Governorships, and a Verdict on the Second Term

Americans are voting today, Tuesday 3 November 2026, in midterm elections that decide control of Congress for the final two years of President Donald Trump’s second term.

All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are on the ballot, along with 35 Senate seats and governorships in 36 states. The first polls close at 6:00 PM ET, in parts of Indiana and Kentucky. No results have been reported as of this morning.

Republicans enter the day holding a 218-214 lead in the House, with two vacancies and one independent who caucuses with them, and a 53-47 majority in the Senate. Democrats need a net gain of four seats in each chamber to take control — in the Senate, a 50-50 tie would be broken by Vice President JD Vance.

More than 57 million people had already voted before Election Day, above the 46 million early votes in the 2022 midterms, according to University of Florida Election Lab data cited in morning coverage.

The conservative take: Midterms are usually a check on the party in power, and this one is no exception. But a check is not the same as a mandate for the other side. What matters after tonight is not just who holds the gavel, but whether the next Congress can do the basic work: fund the government, secure the border, and keep taxes and spending from drifting further out of control. We will report the verified results as they come in, not the forecasts.