US midterm elections live: Polls due to open in test for Trump

Author: Umut Uras, Faisal Aziz Khan, Chris Hamill-StewartPublished on: November 3, 2026Country: United States

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US midterm elections live: Polls due to open in test for Trump

Americans are voting in closely contested midterm elections, with all 435 House seats and 35 Senate seats at stake. Democrats are hoping to take both chambers from Donald Trump’s Republican Party. The first polls are due to close at 6pm Eastern time (23:00 GMT), with results expected through the evening and some races potentially unresolved until Wednesday or later. In Michigan, Democrat Haley Stevens, who lost her primary to Abdul El-Sayed, angered her party by endorsing Republican Mike Rogers for the Senate.

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