Elections · Coverage from October 1 to November 5
The 2026 Midterms: How Each Side Covered Them
Where left- and right-leaning outlets put their attention, race by race and issue by issue, and what each side focused on.
Each race’s share of all the race coverage from each side. Open a row for what each side focused on.
Left-leaning outletsRight-leaning outlets
The results
As of November 6, 2026Senate
5444
Democrats flipped 7 · 2 not called
House
218+
Democratic majority
Governors
2920
Democrats flipped 6 · 1 not called
The map and every race
Still counting:
- Democrat
- Republican
- Too close to call
- No race
- Changed party
Pick a state to see its result.
Every Senate result (35)
- AlabamaBarry Moore (R)
- AlaskaToo close to call · Mary Peltola leads
- ArkansasTom Cotton (R)
- ColoradoJohn Hickenlooper (D)
- DelawareChris Coons (D)
- FloridaAshley Moody (R)
- GeorgiaJon Ossoff (D)
- IdahoJim Risch (R)
- IllinoisJuliana Stratton (D)
- IowaJosh Turek (D) · flip
- KansasAdam Hamilton (D) · flip
- KentuckyAndy Barr (R)
- LouisianaJulia Letlow (R)
- MaineTroy Jackson (D) · flip
- MassachusettsEd Markey (D)
- MichiganAbdul El-Sayed (D)
- MinnesotaPeggy Flanagan (D)
- MississippiToo close to call · Scott Colom leads
- MontanaKurt Alme (R)
- NebraskaPete Ricketts (R)
- New HampshireChris Pappas (D)
- New JerseyCory Booker (D)
- New MexicoBen Ray Luján (D)
- North CarolinaRoy Cooper (D) · flip
- OhioSherrod Brown (D) · flip
- OklahomaKevin Hern (R)
- OregonJeff Merkley (D)
- Rhode IslandJack Reed (D)
- South CarolinaAnnie Andrews (D) · flip
- South DakotaMike Rounds (R)
- TennesseeBill Hagerty (R)
- TexasJames Talarico (D) · flip
- VirginiaMark Warner (D)
- West VirginiaShelley Moore Capito (R)
- WyomingHarriet Hageman (R)
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How to read this: each bar is a race’s (or issue’s) share of all the race (or campaign) coverage from left- or right-leaning outlets, counted in articles from the more than 130 outlets Pano reads, from October 1 to November 5. Which stories belong to which race or issue is our grouping; what each side focused on is summarized from each story’s “How each side covered it.” Results from NBC News (Senate) and MultiState (governors). How Pano works.