Vote counts so far in midterms
The gist
More than 57 million early votes were cast nationwide before Election Day in the US midterms.
Several key House races remain uncalled, and full results may take days.
How it unfolded
- Oct 18, 2026North Carolina early voting was running 37% ahead of the same point in the 2022 midterms, with registered Democrats casting more than twice as many ballots as Republicans.
- Oct 19, 2026More than 12.6 million Americans had already cast ballots, according to the University of Florida Election Lab's tracker.
- Nov 2, 2026More than 57 million early votes had been cast nationwide as of Monday afternoon, per the Election Lab, on pace to outpace the more than 58 million total early votes in 2022. NBC News's tracker showed 56,144,276 mail-in and early in-person votes cast, with 61,053,896 mail-in ballots requested or sent.