Elections were held in the United States on November 3, 2026, in these midterm elections, which occurred during the second term of Republican president Donald Trump, all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate were contested to determine the 120th United States Congress.

Thirty-nine state and territorial U.S. gubernatorial elections, attorney general elections, and numerous state and local elections are also being contested. Trump called on Republican-led states to enact rare mid-decade redistricting to boost the party’s chances of holding power ahead of expected historical losses for the incumbent party during midterm elections, which prompted reciprocal redistricting. In April 2026, the Supreme Court ruled in Louisiana v. Callais that some parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 are unconstitutional. The Trump administration used millions of taxpayer dollars to fund Republican campaign advertisements, though later switched to using money from President Trump’s super PAC. Analysts called the results “generational in scope”, a “blue tsunami“, “the end of the Trump era“, and of Donald Trump’s ideology as “an utterly spent political force” in American politics. The results are projected to be the largest majority in the House of Representatives since at least the mid-1990s for either major party, and Republican senate seats in Iowa, Ohio, South Carolina, Kansas, and Texas were replaced with Democrats, the last by double digits. Exit polling indicated that a majority of voters also desired radical or fundamental reforms to the political and economic system of the United States. Youth saw the power of large corporations as a serious threat to their long-term financial security, and so to the wealth and power of billionaires.

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