Early voting for the 2026 midterm election reached 61 million ahead of Election Day. That’s about 15 million more than the early ballots cast in 2022, according to the University of Florida Election Lab.
Early votes cast include in-person and mail-in ballots returned before Election Day. In 2022, early voting accounted for roughly 40 percent of the 112 million total ballots.
As of Nov. 3, mail ballots that have been returned totaled 28.5 million, according to the University of Florida Election Lab.
Near the end of Election Day, 11 states have exceeded 60 percent of total votes in the 2022 midterm elections. Texas has approached 95 percent of the 2022 total ballots five days before Election Day. Oregon, Nevada, Montana, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida have reached over 70 percent of the previous midterm totals through Nov. 2….