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Politics Research · Local Races
2026 midterms · Unofficial results, updated every morning
Local races swung toward Democrats as much as the House
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Unofficial results
Counties are still counting mail and provisional ballots, and each state certifies on its own schedule. This page reads each state’s official results every morning until it certifies. A candidate shown as winning is ahead in the latest count.
Seats flipped to Republicans i
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Local swing to Democrats i
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National House swing i
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What the count shows
What changed since 2022
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Results by state
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Results by type of office
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Every local seat where the leading party differs from 2022
This list includes winners who switched party labels, marked as such. They are left out of the seat counts above.
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Method
How the count works
Every morning we download each counted state’s official results file for November 3, 2026, and its certified file for the November 8, 2022 general election. Every contest in the file is saved. Only local contests with a party printed next to the candidates’ names are counted here: county commissions and councils, sheriffs, clerks, prosecutors, school boards that list a party, local judges and special districts. State legislative, statewide and federal contests are kept out of the local figures, and U.S. House races appear only as the comparison.
A 2026 contest is matched to 2022 when the county and the contest name are the same, after spelling differences such as “District 04” and “District 4” are removed. Contests whose districts were renumbered or redrawn stay unmatched. They count toward seats won but not toward seats changing party or the vote share change. A seat change is counted only when both years elected the same number of seats. The vote share uses only contests where a Democrat and a Republican were both on the ballot in both years. Write-in votes count toward totals but never win a seat here.
Limits
What these figures do not show
The counted states are the ones whose election offices publish results we can download. They are not a sample of the country. Results are unofficial until each state certifies, and close contests can change leader before then. Most school board and city races in the United States have no party on the ballot, so they are not part of this count.
Sources
Official results files
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Civly Politics Research · unofficial 2026 results, read from each state’s election office every morning; certified 2022 results from the same offices.
All counting is Civly’s. Any errors are ours. A result describes a contest and nothing about the conduct or fitness of any candidate.