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More than 50m Americans cast ballots in early voting with three days to go before midterms

Early voting is significantly outpacing the last midterm election, with millions more Americans casting ballots in advance of tightly contested races.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 2 sources•1 min read•Updated October 31, 2026, 4:13 PM UTC

More than 50.5m early votes have been cast across the US as of Saturday morning, according to an analysis by the University of Florida.

This is already nearly 5m more votes than the total number of early votes made in the last midterm elections, in 2022.

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