2026 Midterm Election Results: House and Senate Control, State by State

As of 1:48 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, polls are still open and no 2026 midterm race has been called. AP’s results data shows all 35 Senate races, 433 House contests and 36 governor races as awaiting poll close, with no votes reported. Republicans go into Election Day holding both chambers: 218 House seats to the Democrats’ 214, and 53 Senate seats to 45 Democrats and two independents who caucus with them. This page lists every Senate and governor race, each state’s House seats and the poll-closing times. AP calls will be added, each with its time, as they come in after polls close.

Has any 2026 midterm race been called yet?

No: as of 1:48 p.m. ET on Nov. 3, AP had called no race, and no votes had been reported. We read the AP data that feeds NPR’s results pages at that time. Every Senate, House and governor race showed “Awaiting Poll Close” and “Too Early to Call”, and the balance-of-power tally was empty. The first polls close at 6 p.m. ET.

Once counting starts, early-vote and mail totals are often reported first, and the order in which votes are counted varies by state. An early lead is not a result and can shift as more ballots are counted. This page reports only official returns and AP race calls, never projections.

What is the balance of power going into Election Day?

Republicans control both chambers going in: 218 of 435 House seats and 53 of 100 Senate seats. The table shows each chamber’s membership on Nov. 3, before any results. House figures come from the House Clerk; Senate figures come from Ballotpedia’s count as of Nov. 3.

• House: the independent is Rep. Kevin Kiley of California, whom the Clerk lists as caucusing with Republicans. The two vacancies are Florida’s 20th District, after Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick resigned on April 21, 2026, and Texas’s 23rd, after Tony Gonzales resigned on April 14, 2026. The Clerk lists both special elections as “Date TBD”. A majority takes 218 seats.
• Senate: the two independents, Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine, caucus with Democrats. Vice President JD Vance, as president of the Senate, breaks 50-50 ties.

Once AP begins calling races, we will add a results row here: the seats each party has won, with the time of the latest AP call.

How many seats does each party need to control the Senate?

Republicans need 19 of the 35 seats on the ballot to reach 50 and keep control with the vice president’s tie-breaking vote. Democrats need 17 to reach 51 together with the two independents. The table lists the seats each side holds that are not up this year and how many of the 35 races it needs to win.

The numbers add up as follows:

• Republicans: 53 seats minus the 22 on the ballot leaves 31 not up. 31 plus 19 makes 50.
• Democrats: 45 seats minus the 13 on the ballot leaves 32 not up. Add the two independents, who are not up, and the total is 34. 34 plus 17 makes 51.
• 65 seats not up plus 35 on the ballot makes 100.

Several ballots also list independent or nonpartisan candidates. A seat won by one of them counts toward a side only once that senator says which party they will caucus with.

The new Senate is seated on Jan. 3, 2027, but a few winners can take office sooner (see below).

Which Senate seats are on the ballot in 2026?

35 Senate seats are on the ballot: the 33 regular Class II seats plus special elections in Florida and Ohio. 22 of them are held by Republicans and 13 by Democrats. In the table, “Held by” is the party that holds the seat now. “On ballot” names the incumbent if one is running; “Open” means none is.

After polls close, we will add each AP call to the list below with the winner and the time of the call.

The 13 races without an incumbent on the ballot:

• Not seeking re-election (11): Tommy Tuberville (Alabama, running for governor), Dick Durbin (Illinois), Joni Ernst (Iowa), Mitch McConnell (Kentucky), Gary Peters (Michigan), Tina Smith (Minnesota), Steve Daines (Montana), Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire), Thom Tillis (North Carolina), Alan Armstrong (Oklahoma) and Cynthia Lummis (Wyoming). Armstrong was appointed after Markwayne Mullin left the Senate in March 2026 to become Homeland Security secretary, and, as Oklahoma law requires of appointees, he affirmed under oath that he would not run for the seat.
• Lost renomination (2): John Cornyn lost the Texas Republican runoff to Ken Paxton. Bill Cassidy was eliminated in the Louisiana Republican primary, and Julia Letlow won the nomination in the runoff.

Three of the 22 incumbents on the ballot are appointees. Ashley Moody holds Florida’s seat, which Marco Rubio left to become secretary of state. Jon Husted holds Ohio’s, which JD Vance left to become vice president. Darline Graham was appointed by Gov. Henry McMaster after her brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham, died on July 11, 2026.

Who are the Senate candidates in each state?

AP’s results data lists a Republican in all 35 Senate races and a Democrat in 32; Idaho, Nebraska and South Dakota have no Democratic nominee. The major candidates on each ballot are below; “inc.” marks the incumbent. AP groups some minor candidates under “Other”, and those are not listed.

• Alabama: Barry Moore (R), Everett Wess (D)
• Alaska: Dan Sullivan (R, inc.), Mary Peltola (D); the ballot also lists Gerald Heikes (R) and a second candidate named Daniel Sullivan (undeclared)
• Arkansas: Tom Cotton (R, inc.), Hallie Shoffner (D)
• Colorado: John Hickenlooper (D, inc.), Mark Baisley (R)
• Delaware: Chris Coons (D, inc.), Michael Katz (R)
• Florida (special): Ashley Moody (R, inc.), Angie Nixon (D)
• Georgia: Jon Ossoff (D, inc.), Mike Collins (R)
• Idaho: Jim Risch (R, inc.), Todd Achilles (I), Matt Loesby (Libertarian), Natalie Fleming (I)
• Illinois: Juliana Stratton (D), Don Tracy (R)
• Iowa: Ashley Hinson (R), Josh Turek (D)
• Kansas: Roger Marshall (R, inc.), Adam Hamilton (D)
• Kentucky: Andy Barr (R), Charles Booker (D)
• Louisiana: Julia Letlow (R), Jamie Davis (D)
• Maine: Susan Collins (R, inc.), Troy Jackson (D)
• Massachusetts: Ed Markey (D, inc.), John Deaton (R)
• Michigan: Abdul El-Sayed (D), Mike Rogers (R)
• Minnesota: Peggy Flanagan (DFL), Michele Tafoya (R)
• Mississippi: Cindy Hyde-Smith (R, inc.), Scott Colom (D)
• Montana: Kurt Alme (R), Alani Bankhead (D), Seth Bodnar (I)
• Nebraska: Pete Ricketts (R, inc.), Dan Osborn (nonpartisan)
• New Hampshire: Chris Pappas (D), John Sununu (R)
• New Jersey: Cory Booker (D, inc.), Justin Murphy (R)
• New Mexico: Ben Ray Luján (D, inc.), Larry Marker (R)
• North Carolina: Roy Cooper (D), Michael Whatley (R)
• Ohio (special): Jon Husted (R, inc.), Sherrod Brown (D)
• Oklahoma: Kevin Hern (R), N’Kiyla Thomas (D)
• Oregon: Jeff Merkley (D, inc.), David Smith (R)
• Rhode Island: Jack Reed (D, inc.), Raymond McKay (R)
• South Carolina: Darline Graham (R, inc.), Annie Andrews (D)
• South Dakota: Mike Rounds (R, inc.), Brian Bengs (I)
• Tennessee: Bill Hagerty (R, inc.), Marquita Bradshaw (D)
• Texas: Ken Paxton (R), James Talarico (D)
• Virginia: Mark Warner (D, inc.), Bert Mizusawa (R)
• West Virginia: Shelley Moore Capito (R, inc.), Rachel Anderson (D)
• Wyoming: Harriet Hageman (R), James Byrd (D)

How many House seats does each state have?

All 435 House seats are on the ballot, divided among the states by population: from 52 in California and 38 in Texas down to one each in six states. The table lists each state’s seat count, taken from the House Clerk’s member list; the counts total 435.

After polls close, we will add the number of seats AP has called for each party in each state, along with the national House tally. AP’s results data lists 433 House contests; Texas’s 18th District and Wisconsin’s 8th District do not appear in it.

Why don’t some House district numbers match the old seats?

Several states vote on new congressional maps this year after mid-decade redistricting in 2025 and 2026, so a district number on tonight’s ballot may cover different ground from the seat with that number now. States voting on new maps include Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and Utah.

The two current vacancies show this:

• Florida’s 20th: Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick’s old 20th District is vacant. In AP’s data, tonight’s FL-20 race lists Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) as its incumbent.
• Texas’s 23rd: Tony Gonzales’s old 23rd is vacant. Tonight’s TX-23 race has no incumbent on the ballot.

Neither race tonight is the special election to fill an old seat; the Clerk still lists those specials as “Date TBD”. Kevin Kiley is on the ballot with no party preference in California’s new 6th District, while the new 3rd lists Democratic Rep. Ami Bera as its incumbent. When results come in, compare them with the new districts, not the 2024 seat numbers.

Which governor races are on the ballot?

36 states elect a governor this year, and each party holds 18 of those seats. 17 incumbents are running and 19 seats are open, by our count of AP’s results data. In the table, “Held by” is the party holding the governorship now. “On ballot” names the incumbent if one is running; “Open” means none is. Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands also elect governors, and they are not included here.

The major candidates in each race, as listed in AP’s data (AP groups some others under “Other”):

• Alabama: Tommy Tuberville (R), Doug Jones (D)
• Alaska: Dave Bronson (R), Treg Taylor (R), Bernadette Wilson (R), Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins (D)
• Arizona: Katie Hobbs (D, inc.), Andy Biggs (R)
• Arkansas: Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R, inc.), Fred Love (D)
• California: Xavier Becerra (D), Steve Hilton (R)
• Colorado: Phil Weiser (D), Victor Marx (R)
• Connecticut: Ned Lamont (D, inc.), Ryan Fazio (R)
• Florida: Byron Donalds (R), David Jolly (D)
• Georgia: Rick Jackson (R), Keisha Lance Bottoms (D)
• Hawaii: Josh Green (D, inc.), Gary Cordery (R)
• Idaho: Brad Little (R, inc.), Terri Pickens (D)
• Illinois: JB Pritzker (D, inc.), Darren Bailey (R)
• Iowa: Rob Sand (D), Zach Lahn (R)
• Kansas: Cindy Holscher (D), Ty Masterson (R)
• Maine: Hannah Pingree (D), Robert Charles (R)
• Maryland: Wes Moore (D, inc.), Dan Cox (R)
• Massachusetts: Maura Healey (D, inc.), Michael Minogue (R)
• Michigan: Jocelyn Benson (D), John James (R)
• Minnesota: Amy Klobuchar (DFL), Lisa Demuth (R)
• Nebraska: Jim Pillen (R, inc.), Lynne Walz (D)
• Nevada: Joe Lombardo (R, inc.), Aaron Ford (D)
• New Hampshire: Kelly Ayotte (R, inc.), Cinde Warmington (D)
• New Mexico: Deb Haaland (D), Greggory Hull (R)
• New York: Kathy Hochul (D, inc.), Bruce Blakeman (R)
• Ohio: Vivek Ramaswamy (R), Amy Acton (D)
• Oklahoma: Mike Mazzei (R), Cyndi Munson (D)
• Oregon: Tina Kotek (D, inc.), Christine Drazan (R)
• Pennsylvania: Josh Shapiro (D, inc.), Stacy Garrity (R)
• Rhode Island: Helena Foulkes (D), Aaron Guckian (R), Kenneth Block (I)
• South Carolina: Alan Wilson (R), Jermaine Johnson (D)
• South Dakota: Larry Rhoden (R, inc.), Dan Ahlers (D)
• Tennessee: Marsha Blackburn (R), Jerri Green (D)
• Texas: Greg Abbott (R, inc.), Gina Hinojosa (D)
• Vermont: Phil Scott (R, inc.), Amanda Janoo (D)
• Wisconsin: David Crowley (D), Tom Tiffany (R)
• Wyoming: Eric Barlow (R), Kenneth Casner (D)

Three sitting senators are running for governor: Tommy Tuberville in Alabama, whose Senate seat is open this year, and Amy Klobuchar in Minnesota and Marsha Blackburn in Tennessee, whose Senate seats are not on the ballot.

When do polls close in each state?

The first polls close at 6 p.m. ET in the Eastern-time parts of Indiana and Kentucky. Most of Alaska and all of Hawaii close at midnight ET, and Alaska’s western Aleutians, the last polls in the country, close at 1 a.m. ET Wednesday. All times are Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5), since clocks went back on Nov. 1. The table gives each closing hour and the states, by postal code, whose polls close then; “most of” and “rest of” mark states split across two closing times, explained in the notes below.

Some notes on the table:

• In states that span two time zones, polls usually close at the same local hour in each zone, so most of a state closes an hour before its last polls.
• Indiana and Kentucky: the Eastern-time parts close at 6 p.m. ET, the Central-time parts at 7 p.m. ET.
• Florida: most of the state closes at 7 p.m. ET; the Central-time panhandle closes at 8 p.m. ET.
• New Hampshire: most towns close by 7 p.m. ET; some, mainly cities, stay open until 8 p.m. ET.
• Texas: most of the state closes at 8 p.m. ET; El Paso and Hudspeth counties, on Mountain time, close at 9 p.m. ET.
• Michigan: most of the state closes at 8 p.m. ET; the four Central-time counties of the Upper Peninsula close at 9 p.m. ET.
• Kansas and South Dakota: the Central-time parts close at 8 p.m. ET, the Mountain-time parts at 9 p.m. ET.
• Idaho and Oregon: Mountain-time areas close at 10 p.m. ET and Pacific-time areas at 11 p.m. ET.
• Alaska: most of the state closes at 8 p.m. local (12 a.m. ET); the western Aleutians, on Hawaii-Aleutian time, close at 1 a.m. ET.
• Tennessee and Nebraska close at the same moment statewide, even though each spans two time zones.
• North Dakota’s closing hours vary by town, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. local; the table follows NPR’s 9 p.m. ET listing, and some polls may stay open later.
• Anyone in line when polls close can generally still vote, so the first returns may come in a little after the hour.

How does AP decide when to call a race?

AP calls a race only when it determines the trailing candidates can no longer catch up once all the votes are counted. AP says its calls are declarations, not predictions. NPR’s Nov. 3 explainer quotes AP’s principles. AP does not make projections or name apparent or likely winners, and it does not call a race because a candidate declares victory or concedes. Its race callers look at the vote county by county, by type of ballot where that data is available, and at how many ballots are still left to count.

Some races can be called before every vote is counted; others take days. We will report House or Senate control only when AP’s own race calls put a party over the line, and we will give the time of the call.

Which races could stay undecided after election night?

Races in Alaska, Maine, Georgia and Louisiana can run past Tuesday night because of ranked-choice counting, majority rules or runoffs.

• Alaska: every race uses ranked-choice voting. For any race where no candidate tops 50% of first choices, the ranked-choice tabulation is scheduled for Nov. 18, and the state is aiming to certify results by Nov. 25, according to Alaska Public Media.
• Maine: ranked-choice voting applies to federal general elections, including the Senate race and both House seats, but not to the governor’s race, which is decided by plurality. AP’s data flags ranked-choice counting for the Senate race and the 2nd District. If no candidate wins a majority of first choices, the Secretary of State runs a ranked-choice tabulation; after the June 9 primary, that count was completed on June 19.
• Georgia: candidates need a majority to win. If no one gets one, the top two meet in a general-election runoff on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2026, according to Georgia.gov.
• Louisiana: the six U.S. House races are open primaries on Nov. 3, with all candidates on one ballot. If no one wins a majority, the top two go to a runoff on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2026, according to The Green Papers. Louisiana’s Senate race is a regular general election between the parties’ nominees and does not go to that runoff.

Could the Senate count change before Jan. 3?

Possibly: a few winners can take office before the new Congress starts, so the 53-45-2 count could change in November or December. The Florida and Ohio special-election winners fill the remainder of terms that run to January 2029, and they can generally be sworn in once their states certify the results. In Oklahoma, the attorney general’s office said on Oct. 29 that the Nov. 3 winner fills the rest of the current term as well. That winner will be eligible to take office once the State Election Board certifies the results, with no separate special election needed.

Where are the Texas results and exit polls?

Texas’s Senate and governor races have their own results page, and a separate page explains how this year’s exit poll works. See our Texas election results page for the Paxton-Talarico Senate race and the governor’s race; for background on the Senate race, read our Paxton vs. Talarico explainer . For how the Voter Poll, the survey that replaced the old exit poll, works and when its data comes out, see our 2026 exit polls explainer . For what was on the ballot nationwide, start with our 2026 midterm elections guide .

Sources

• Clerk of the U.S. House: homepage party breakdown
• Clerk of the U.S. House: vacancies of the 119th Congress
• Clerk of the U.S. House: member data (XML)
• Oklahoma Attorney General: Nov. 3 winner will fill remainder of U.S. Senate term
• Georgia.gov: 2026 general election runoff
• Maine Secretary of State: ranked-choice tabulations
• NPR/AP results data: Senate
• NPR/AP results data: House
• NPR/AP results data: governors
• NPR/AP results data: balance of power
• NPR: How NPR makes race calls in the 2026 election
• NPR: Midterms election night hour by hour (poll-closing times)
• The Green Papers: 2026 polling hours
• The Green Papers: Louisiana 2026
• Alaska Public Media: What to know about Alaska’s general election
• Ballotpedia: United States Senate
• Wikipedia: 2026 United States Senate elections
• Wikipedia: 2025–2026 United States redistricting
• Wikipedia: 2026 Maine gubernatorial election