US midterm elections · 2026

Midterms 2026

We're cooking.

Live 2026 midterm election results and a midterm forecast, from the maker of Votes26.com. The kitchen opens on election eve.

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Illustration of Nehemia Gershuni-Aylho as a chef in a white toque and a midterms26 apron, stirring a pan of vegetables over a gas flame, against a blue, purple and pink watercolor splash.
Nehemia Gershuni-Aylho, cooking up Midterms26.

Who's cookingThe analyst behind Votes26, now on the US midterms

01Votes26.com

Votes26.com covered Israel's national election for the 26th Knesset, held on Tuesday, October 27, 2026, live from the morning to the final count. Israel's parliament has 120 seats, and a 61-seat majority decides who governs.

  • Turnout through the day by hour, community and town, and the TV networks' exit polls shown separately at poll close.
  • Every results file from Israel's Central Elections Committee taken in automatically, with a seat projection that compares each counted polling station with its own result in the previous election, correcting the bias of the stations counted first.
  • Results by polling station and town for 2019 to 2026, a turnout map of Israel, and the absentee "double envelope" ballots counted after the regular stations.
  • Its method was tested against every election from 2019 to 2022, replaying the official station files in the order they were actually counted.

02The evidence

The path began in law. Gershuni-Aylho earned an LL.B., went on to study communications and politics, and joined Shibolet & Co., one of Israel's leading law firms, as a litigation researcher. The craft was finding the one fact that holds a case together, and proving it.

03The campaigns

Political campaigns brought that rigor to the electorate. In a campaign, data is worth something only if it is right on the night, not a week later, and only if the people making the calls can trust it. That standard has stayed with every project since.

04The research

As head of the research department at an international strategic consulting firm, Gershuni-Aylho led the analysis behind the firm's strategic advice, turning complex, incomplete and contested information into conclusions decision-makers could act on.

05Project 61

In Israel's 120-seat Knesset, every election comes down to one number: 61, a majority. Project 61 tracked Israel's election polls on the road to that number, following the published surveys and what they meant for who could form a governing majority.

06Lexdin

Founder and developer of lexdin.com, an advanced legal information platform: an index of Israeli court rulings and lawyers, with AI research tools built for in-depth legal research across the case law in seconds.

07LexDino

lexdino.com is an independent site with legal information from around the world: judgments, court records and legislation, with an autonomous research system that reads all of it.

08bamqam

bamqam.com (also at usvsiran.com) is a live US–Iran force tracker: one map of the CENTCOM theater with US and Iranian forces (bases, naval assets, missile sites and air defenses), overlaid with live feeds of aircraft, shipping, satellites, home-front alerts and maritime incidents, and a time machine that replays any past day.

09Midterms26

Midterms26 carries the same question to the United States: instead of waiting for the count to settle, read the official returns as they arrive, measure each against its own history, and say what they mean, honestly labeled, from the first precincts in.

Midterms 2026Quick answers

When are the 2026 midterm elections?

Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Midterms26 counts down to the evening before: Monday, November 2, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

What is on the ballot in the 2026 midterms?

Far more than Congress. All 435 voting seats in the US House and about a third of the Senate, plus governors and other statewide offices, state legislatures, county and city offices, sheriffs, school boards, judges, and statewide and local ballot measures.

Where can I follow midterm election results live?

Here, on midterms26.com, on election night. Official results are published by each state's and county's election office; Midterms26 follows those official releases.

Will Midterms26 have a midterm forecast?

Yes, where the data support one. Like Votes26, the forecast is built from counted precincts compared with their own past results, and it is shown only where validated precinct-level data exist. A forecast is never an official result.