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Control of Congress and the aboriginal of President Trump's docket are on the line successful the 2026 midterm elections connected Tuesday, arsenic voters formed their ballots for each 435 House seats and 35 Senate races astir the country. Candidates for politician are connected the ballot successful 36 states and 3 U.S. territories, on with immoderate high-profile measures similar California's projected billionaire tax.
CBS News volition person extended unrecorded sum passim the time and each the latest results aft the polls close.
How to ticker predetermination sum with cable
CBS News' "America Decides: Election 2026" unrecorded sum connected TV and cablegram starts Tuesday astatine 7 p.m. ET. (Find your local CBS presumption here.)
Anchors Tony Dokoupil and Norah O'Donnell volition beryllium joined connected the acceptable by "CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King, "Face the Nation" moderator and main overseas affairs analogous Margaret Brennan, and CBS News' squad of governmental reporters, including Robert Costa, Major Garrett, Nancy Cordes and Ed O'Keefe.
There volition beryllium unrecorded updates passim the evening from CBS News enforcement manager of elections and surveys Anthony Salvanto and reporting from correspondents successful Washington and astir the country, including Weijia Jiang astatine the White House, Nikole Killion, Adriana Diaz, Matt Gutman, Skyler Henry, Lana Zak, Kris Van Cleave, Taurean Small, Jan Crawford and Nicole Sganga. Contributors volition besides see governmental analysts from some sides of the aisle and experts connected predetermination instrumentality and security.
How to ticker predetermination sum without cable
Live sum is streaming on CBS News 24/7 passim the time Tuesday and each evening long, with predetermination results expected to commencement coming successful Tuesday night.
Watch connected the escaped CBS News app connected your connected TV oregon smartphone, connected Paramount+, and each platforms wherever CBS News 24/7 is available, including CBSNews.com and YouTube.
Beginning astatine 5 p.m. ET, dive into the latest information connected "Election 2026: The Nerd Show," hosted by CBS News enforcement manager of elections and surveys Anthony Salvanto and CBS News legislature analogous Caitlin Huey-Burns, joined by Democratic and Republican pollsters and different predetermination information experts. Watch present until 2 a.m. ET.
Prime-time sum anchored by Tony Dokoupil and Norah O'Donnell begins streaming live astatine 7 p.m. ET.
How to ticker unrecorded streaming section predetermination sum from CBS Stations
CBS Stations are covering the predetermination unrecorded crossed 15 owned markets. Local streaming channels program sustained unrecorded sum with a premix of section and web coverage.
Election nighttime unrecorded sum plans include:
- CBS News Baltimore: Live from 4 p.m.-6:30 p.m. and 11 p.m.-11:30 p.m. ET, with updates passim the evening.
- CBS News Bay Area: Live from 4 p.m.-11:35 p.m. PT.
- CBS News Boston: Live from 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.-11:30 p.m. ET.
- CBS News Chicago: Live from 4 p.m.-10:35 p.m. CT.
- CBS News Colorado: Live from 4 p.m.-10:35 p.m. MT.
- CBS News Detroit: Live from 4 p.m.-6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.-11:35 p.m. ET.
- CBS News Los Angeles: Live from 4 p.m.-11:35 p.m. PT.
- CBS News Miami: Live from 7 p.m.-11:30 p.m. ET.
- CBS News Minnesota: Live from 4 p.m.-10:30 p.m. CT.
- CBS News New York: Live from 5 p.m.-6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.-11:30 p.m. ET.
- CBS News Philadelphia: Live from 4 p.m.-6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.-11:30 p.m. ET.
- CBS News Pittsburgh: Live from 4 p.m.-6:30 p.m., 8 p.m.-9 p.m. and 11 p.m.-11:30 p.m. ET.
- CBS News Sacramento: Live from 4 p.m.-11:35 p.m. PT.
- CBS News Texas: Live from 7 p.m.-11 p.m. CT.
CBS News Atlanta is not streaming but section viewers tin ticker connected WUPA Channel 69.
What clip volition predetermination results travel in?
Poll closing times alteration from authorities to state, with the archetypal batch of states closing astatine 7 p.m. ET, much astatine 7:30, and ample numbers of states astatine 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. ET. The polls successful California and respective different Western states don't adjacent until 11 p.m. ET, followed by Hawaii an hr aboriginal and yet Alaska — with a intimately watched Senate race — astatine 1 a.m. ET.
Here are canvass closing times for immoderate states with cardinal battleground races:
7 p.m. ET
- Georgia
- South Carolina
7:30 p.m. ET
- North Carolina
- Ohio
8 p.m. ET
- Florida
- Maine
- New Hampshire
- Pennsylvania
9 p.m. ET
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Michigan
- Texas (polling places successful Central clip portion adjacent an hr earlier)
1 a.m. ET
- Alaska (polling places successful astir of the authorities adjacent an hr earlier)
See the full database for each states here.
Results successful immoderate races will instrumentality longer to travel successful than others, depending connected assorted factors including however adjacent the borderline is and the state's rules for erstwhile mail-in ballots are counted.
Alaska, with its ranked prime voting system, would necessitate other rounds of counting if nary campaigner tops 50% of voters' first-choice selections. The authorities says full results of the ranked-choice ballots won't beryllium disposable until 15 days aft the predetermination (Nov. 18), aft each eligible ballots are reviewed and counted.
CBS News unrecorded sum of predetermination results volition proceed Wednesday connected "CBS Mornings" and streaming passim the time connected CBS News 24/7.
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