More than 50 million votes cast in US midterm elections: What does it mean?
Summary
More than 53 million Americans had voted early in the 2026 midterm elections by Sunday, November 1, according to a University of Florida analysis. Early voting has risen in several states, but the figures do not show how many votes each party will ultimately receive or predict the election result.Key Facts
- The analysis counted 53.14 million early votes among about 210 million registered voters as of 6:56 a.m. Eastern time Sunday.
- About 29 million people voted in person before Election Day, and about 23 million returned mail ballots.
- In the 2022 midterms, 46 million people had voted early by a comparable point, according to the article.
- More than 11 million registered Democrats and about 8 million registered Republicans had voted early, according to the University of Florida analysis.
- Texas had more than 7 million early votes, over 1.5 million more than at the same point in the 2022 midterms.
- The article reports early voting was up 83 percent in South Carolina, 34 percent in Kansas, 44 percent in Maine, and 32 percent in Michigan compared with the same point in 2022.
- State rules for early voting vary; most states allow in-person early voting, and all states offer mail-in voting.
- The article cites convenience, voter mobilization, election anxiety, and social or cultural reasons as factors that can lead people to vote early.
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