2026 United States elections

The 2026 United States elections are scheduled to be held, in large part, on November 3, 2026. In these midterm elections, scheduled to occur during Republican president Donald Trump's nonconsecutive second term, all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate will be contested to determine the 120th United States Congress. 39 state and territorial U.S. gubernatorial elections, attorney general elections, and numerous state and local elections, will also be contested.

The elections are taking place amid a series of federal investigations into the 2020 presidential election and into voter registration efforts, including the seizure of ballots from the Fulton County, Georgia, election center and an FBI search of the offices of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, an Ohio voter registration organization. Election experts and Democratic officials have characterized the investigations as efforts to intimidate election officials and voters ahead of…