2026 midterms · scorecard
Did the money win?
For every group spending in 2026 House and Senate races, the share of its outside spending that ended up on the winning side. A dollar counts as won if it supported the winner or opposed a loser. Every group is measured the same way.
General-election results go in as races are called after Election Day, Nov. 3, 2026. Until then, $3.2B in general-election outside spending is waiting on results. See the primary scorecard.
Primaries
$779.1M in primary outside spending across 367 races, measured against who won each nomination.
How this is counted
- Only independent expenditures count: ads, mail and other spending reported to the FEC as supporting or opposing a candidate. Direct contributions to campaigns aren’t included.
- Primary money is measured against who won the nomination. In top-two and top-four states, that means the candidates who advanced to November. General-election money is measured against who won in November.
- Money goes in the primary or general column based on the election the group named in its FEC filing. Spending a group labeled as primary money against the other party’s eventual nominee counts as lost.
- Races still waiting on a result, including runoffs, are left out until they’re decided.
- A high share doesn’t mean the money decided a race. Groups often spend where their side was already favored.
FEC data as of Oct. 30, 2026. Race calls come from civicAPI (opens in a new tab), which runs its own decision desk. We use a call once it has held for two checks in a row, and each race page links its call. How this works.