2026 midterms · Federal Election Commission data

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3 days until Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3.

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Oct. 25, 2026 to Oct. 31, 2026

This week in the general election

Outside spending dated in the last 7 days, from FEC filings through Oct. 30, 2026. Reports keep arriving for days after the money is spent, so recent days fill in over time.

  • Spent in the last 7 days
    $492.8M
  • Races with new money
    189
  • Days until Election Day
    3

Races drawing the most money

  1. OH Senate$50.8MSherrod Brown (D), Jon Husted (R)
  2. MI Senate$40.8MAbdul El-Sayed (D), Mike Rogers (R)
  3. TX Senate$40.7MJames Talarico (D), Ken Paxton (R)
  4. IA Senate$25.0MJosh Turek (D), Ashley Hinson (R)
  5. KS Senate$21.0MRoger Marshall (R), Adam Hamilton (D)

Biggest spenders this week

  1. HMP$81.9MMI-10, MI-07, FL-22 and 51 more
  2. WinSenate$53.8MOH Senate, MI Senate, TX Senate and 7 more
  3. SLF PAC$47.6MOH Senate, MI Senate, IA Senate and 7 more
  4. CLF$40.6MMI-10, MI-07, FL-22 and 31 more
  5. No Going Back PAC$36.8MMI Senate, IA Senate, KS Senate and 44 more

Notable money

Picked by fixed rules from the latest FEC data for the groups we track, updated nightly.

Races with the most general-election money

Outside spending on the November general election, from every group, not only the ones on our issue pages. Primary spending is on each race page, and the primary scorecard shows how each group’s primary money did.

Senate

  1. TX Senate$420.6Mplus $62.9M in the primaries
  2. OH Senate$409.4Mplus $2.8M in the primaries
  3. MI Senate$256.6Mplus $74.5M in the primaries
  4. IA Senate$193.4Mplus $10.9M in the primaries
  5. ME Senate$137.7Mplus $7.0M in the primaries

House

  1. NC-01$44.1Mplus $981K in the primaries
  2. MI-07$42.0Mplus $8.0M in the primaries
  3. FL-25$40.8Mplus $2.5M in the primaries
  4. MI-10$39.6Mplus $838K in the primaries
  5. FL-14$38.3Mplus $101K in the primaries

Money on each side

How much outside money is backing each candidate in November. A candidate’s total adds money spent supporting them to money spent attacking their opponent. Races with at least $2.0M in outside spending, from FEC filings through Oct. 30, 2026.

  • Side with more money
  • Other side

Most one-sided

One side has most or all of the money.

  1. AR Senate99% to 1%Tom Cotton (R) $4.6M, Hallie Shoffner (D) $45K
  2. CA-4893% to 7%Marni von Wilpert (D) $7.2M, Jim Desmond (R) $535K
  3. TX-0991% to 9%Alex Mealer (R) $3.1M, Leticia Gutierrez (D) $320K
  4. FL-1690% to 10%Sydney Gruters (R) $1.9M, Kelly Kirschner (D) $205K
  5. LA-0690% to 10%Blake Miguez (R) $3.0M, Rick Edmonds (R) $339K

Most evenly matched

Both sides are spending about the same.

  1. AK Senate50% to 50%Dan S. Sullivan (R) $46.8M, Mary Peltola (D) $46.6M
  2. PA-0750% to 50%Bob Brooks (D) $11.7M, Ryan Mackenzie (R) $11.6M
  3. FL-2550% to 50%Jared Moskowitz (D) $20.5M, Scott Singer (R) $20.3M
  4. NC-0150% to 50%Laurie Buckhout (R) $22.2M, Don Davis (D) $21.8M
  5. IA Senate51% to 49%Josh Turek (D) $97.7M, Ashley Hinson (R) $94.8M

Your representatives

What your House member and senators spent to win, per vote cast, and which tracked groups are spending around them now.

Most spent per vote

House members, last general election. The average is $8.13.

  1. Hakeem S. Jeffries (D) NY-08$90.43
  2. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) NY-14$86.82
  3. Mike Johnson (R) LA-04$63.67
  4. Eugene Vindman (D) VA-07$45.21
  5. Steve Scalise (R) LA-01$42.63

Full rankings

Late money

The newest outside-spending reports filed with the FEC. See the full feed

Five newest outside-spending reports
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