Weight
Transfer
The national margin is the balance point of every group's vote. In two years it moved 15 points. Here is who moved it.
Preliminary, 4–6 Nov 2026. Every figure carries a receipt: its source and a content hash. Methodology
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A referendum on the president's economy that every group joined, won by who showed up and who crossed over.
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Carried into the Senate
Each walker is 100,000 votes
James Talarico def. Ken Paxton · D+12.1
Roy Cooper · D+19.6
Sherrod Brown · D+4.9
Annie Andrews · D+4.5
Josh Turek · D+4.1
Adam Hamilton · D+5.0
Troy Jackson def. Susan Collins · D+6.4
Margins and votes from Wikipedia's 2026 race pages, 6 Nov; preliminary until certification. Portraits posterised in code from Wikimedia Commons photos: Talarico by Antonioaesparza and Cooper by NetwonsBucket (both CC BY-SA 4.0; these posters are shared under the same licence); Brown, U.S. Senate Photographic Services (public domain); Andrews, York County Democratic Party (CC BY 4.0); Turek, Iowa General Assembly (free use); Hamilton by Leoniceno and Jackson by ArenLeBrun (CC0).
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Exit polls (NBC News/SSRS, AP), Decision Desk HQ, The Downballot, CBS News, AdImpact, and GDELT collected through Brantopic.
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