Midterm election

A midterm election refers to a type of election where the people can elect their representatives in the middle of the term of the executive or of another set of members. This is usually used to describe elections to a governmental body (upper house, legislature, etc.) that are staggered so that the number of offices of that body would not be up for election at the same time. Only a fraction of a body's seats are up for election while others are not until the terms of the next set of members are to expire. The legislators may have the same or longer fixed term of office than the executive, which facilitates an election mid-term of the tenure of the higher office.

In the United States, the president is elected every four years in what is "popularly" called a presidential election. The legislative bodies of the US are the Senate (who serve six year terms) and House of Representatives (2 year terms). The senate has 1/3 of its members up for election every two years while the House has all its membership up for election every two years. So In elections to the United States Congress, the point of reference is the president's term. There are three classes of United States Senators; each election replaces one class, hence a "midterm election" appears as one-third through the term of one class and two-thirds through the other, while still midway the term of a president. While the Philippines and Liberia also conducts midterm elections, the winners of such elections take office in their respective legislative bodies that conduct such elections mid-way through the term of half of the other members, hence for the members who were not up for election, the incoming members take office midway through their terms.

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Visions of 2026: US's fateful midterm election

Korea Times 01 Apr 2025

That is, the Democrats are in a race with Trump and the MAGA-fied Republican Party to use the 2026 midterm elections to chart a path to either the restoration of U.S.

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Cornyn's Senate seat among Texas midterm election races

The Bryan Eagle 01 Apr 2025

DALLAS — Elections are like a good transit system. If you miss the train, there's one right behind it ....

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Democrats have image problems. That may not matter much in 2026

CNN 01 Apr 2025

Looking across recent midterm elections, there’s no evidence that such broad measures of party favorability have influenced the outcome in any consistent way ... in those midterm elections anyway.

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Consequences of a potential ideological shake up loom over Wisconsin court race

Star Gazette 01 Apr 2025

And whoever wins on Tuesday will not take office until August, less than a year before the state’s midterm election primaries ... “And it’s not the most important thing determining what happens in those midterm elections.”.

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Political experts aren’t taking Trump’s talk of a third term as a joke

Baltimore Sun 01 Apr 2025

But Trump told Welker he was focused on “the current” and it was too soon to talk about the 2028 election ... But if the economy doesn’t improve, Republicans might pay a hefty price in 2026 midterm elections.

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‘Beautiful thing’: Some House Republicans secretly long for special elections 'massacre'

Raw Story 01 Apr 2025

A pair of House Republicans told Politico they’re longing for their party to get a bloody eye in crucial elections in Florida and Wisconsin Tuesday ... to shore up their party's future in the midterms.

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Trump’s popularity faces test in Wisconsin vote

Gulf News 01 Apr 2025

Musk has argued that a conservative win is needed to cement Trump’s national agenda, with the supreme court race having an impact on a potential redrawing of Congressional districts in the swing state ahead of midterm elections next year.

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Trump's popularity faces test in Wisconsin vote

Urdu Point 01 Apr 2025

<p>Washington, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 1st Apr, 2025) Donald Trump's tumultuous return to the White House will face a popularity test Tuesday with an election in Wisconsin that ...

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Is Donald Trump's popularity at stake in crucial Wisconsin vote?

The News International 01 Apr 2025

Musk has argued that a conservative win is needed to cement Trump's national agenda, with the supreme court race having an impact on a potential redrawing of Congressional districts in the swing state ahead of midterm elections next year.

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Today's the day to tell Trump to go you-know-where

Alternet 01 Apr 2025

One final and more general thought about these two elections today ... That’s because they’re both viewed as potential harbingers of what’s in store for Republicans or Democrats in future elections, both special elections and the 2026 midterms.

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43 nabbed in 3-month poll gun ban operations in Bicol

The Philadelphia Inquirer 01 Apr 2025

... nationwide firearm prohibition by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for the midterm local and national elections this year.

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Comelec logs 34 complaints of vote-buying, other illegal acts

The Philadelphia Inquirer 01 Apr 2025

... said it has so far received 34 reports of alleged vote-buying and other illegal acts ahead of the May 12 midterm elections.

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O'Reilly: 'Democrats will win the midterms' if 'economy is wobbly,' prices high

The Hill 01 Apr 2025

Conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly predicts that Democrats will have success in the 2026 midterm elections if President Trump does not do more to improve the economy ... will win the midterms.

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GCash imposes transaction caps amid rising vote-buying concerns

The Philippine Star 01 Apr 2025

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) announced Tuesday, April 1 that GCash, a major e-wallet in the Philippines, has imposed transaction limits ahead of the 2025 midterm elections ....

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‘Vote buying most rampant in NCR’

The Philippine Star 01 Apr 2025

Vote buying incidents have remained pervasive in the National Capital Region, with the bulk of complaints in the May midterm polls and past elections coming from the NCR, according to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) ....

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Latest News for: midterm election

Visions of 2026: US's fateful midterm election

Cornyn's Senate seat among Texas midterm election races

Democrats have image problems. That may not matter much in 2026

Consequences of a potential ideological shake up loom over Wisconsin court race

Political experts aren’t taking Trump’s talk of a third term as a joke

‘Beautiful thing’: Some House Republicans secretly long for special elections 'massacre'

Trump’s popularity faces test in Wisconsin vote

Trump's popularity faces test in Wisconsin vote

Is Donald Trump's popularity at stake in crucial Wisconsin vote?

Today's the day to tell Trump to go you-know-where

43 nabbed in 3-month poll gun ban operations in Bicol

Comelec logs 34 complaints of vote-buying, other illegal acts

O'Reilly: 'Democrats will win the midterms' if 'economy is wobbly,' prices high

GCash imposes transaction caps amid rising vote-buying concerns

‘Vote buying most rampant in NCR’

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