🇺🇸 2026 MIDTERM ELECTIONS

NATIONAL ABSENTEE BALLOTS RETURNED

October 26, 2026 — Updated 8:35 AM Eastern

Here are the latest reported nationwide mail and absentee ballot returns, broken down by voter registration.

Political Party Ballots Returned🔵 Democrats2,867,820🔴 Republicans1,896,429🟡 No Party Affiliation379,519🟢 Other Parties1,016,673⚪ Party Not Reported7,707,229🇺🇸 TOTAL RETURNED13,867,670

Reporting coverage: 44 states. The totals are incomplete because not every state has supplied data.

What the numbers tell us

Among returned ballots with a reported party registration:

Democrats: 2.87 million

Republicans: 1.90 million

Difference: 971,391 more returned ballots from registered Democrats.

However, approximately 7.7 million returned ballots have no party information available in this reporting source.

Important: Party registration does not reveal which candidate received a person's vote. These are not election results.

Additional early voting

Another 13,360,094 ballots have been reported as cast early in person.

That brings the combined reported total to approximately 27.23 million early and absentee ballots nationwide.

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The figures above come from the updated civic API-derived national tracker, rather than an independent reading of the live totals displayed by your website.

Source: 50501 Veterans National Early Vote Tracker

These are the latest figures I could verify this morning.