More than 50 million ballots had been cast early ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections in the United States, passing the entire 2022 midterm early-vote total of 45.9 million, according to figures from the University of Florida Election Lab as reported on 1 November. Outlets differ on the exact snapshot, variously reporting totals around 50.5 million, 51.31 million and 52 million for different timestamps, so this article uses only the shared claim of more than 50 million and attributes any precise figure to the Lab's reporting rather than presenting it as settled.

All 435 House seats are on the ballot, along with 35 Senate contests, with Republicans holding a 53-47 Senate majority. Texas recorded more than 7 million early votes, above its full 2022 early total, while Harris County, Houston, reached 862,700 by Wednesday, up from 564,500 at the same point in 2022. In states reporting party registration, 10.7 million registered Democrats and 7.8 million registered Republicans had voted early; those figures describe registration, not votes cast for candidates.

Where early voting has closed

North Carolina ended early in-person voting on Saturday afternoon and Georgia's ended on Friday, as the campaign enters its final days before polling on Tuesday 3 November. The early-vote total already exceeding the whole of 2022 points to a high-turnout midterm, though early votes are not a forecast of the result: who votes early, and who waits for polling day, varies by state and by party, and the ballots themselves are counted under each state's own rules.