Millions of Americans are voting in the 2026 midterm elections, which will determine control of the House and Senate for the remaining two years of President Donald Trump’s term. The New York Times says it will track races as results come in and provide reporting and analysis from more than 400 journalists, editors, data analysts, video journalists and photographers working across the country and in battlegrounds.
The newspaper’s live blog will serve as the main hub for election coverage, with real-time updates on race calls, voter interviews, forecasts and analysis. Results are expected to emerge gradually after polls close, potentially continuing late into the night depending on the margins and each state’s counting procedures. Updates will be managed around the clock by newsrooms in New York, London and Seoul.
For a limited time, the Times says its midterm coverage will be available free in its mobile app. App users can also sign up for race-call and news alerts. The app and the newspaper’s website will feature live-blog headlines, along with election-result visualizations and forecasts as polls close.
The Times’s election-night forecasting tool, The Needle, will go live as results begin to arrive. It uses a statistical model to estimate the likelihood of outcomes based on partial results that are continuously processed.
Later on election night, the newspaper plans to publish Voter Trends graphics breaking down estimated House and Senate results by age, race, education and gender in every state. The graphics are intended to show how different groups shifted compared with previous elections.
Sources: The New York Times Politics.