Key facts
- All 435 House seats and 35 Senate seats were contested in the November 3, 2026 elections.
- Eight Florida counties had polling centers relocated because of heavy rain and flooding, Nikkei Asia reported.
- Utah's lieutenant governor issued a declaration of emergency election accommodation on Monday, allowing electronic ballot requests.
- Early voting in South Carolina was up more than 80% from the 2022 midterms, the Associated Press reported.
Polling opened on November 3, 2026 for the US midterm elections, with all 435 House seats and 35 Senate seats contested and control of both chambers of Congress at stake. Nikkei Asia reported that projections in the weeks before election day favored the opposition Democratic Party to take the House from President Donald Trump's Republican Party, while the Senate battle was expected to be closer.
Heavy rain and flooding forced polling centers in eight Florida counties to relocate. Governor Ron DeSantis issued an executive order on Monday to establish temporary voting centers, saying they were meant "to ensure that residents in those areas in affected counties still have the ability to vote." Utah's lieutenant governor issued a declaration of emergency election accommodation on Monday, allowing affected voters to request electronic ballots.
Early voting in South Carolina was up more than 80% from the 2022 midterms, the Associated Press reported, while the figure was 50% for Texas and 44% for Maine. The report also carried an oil price move and other items not covered here.