39 million people have already voted in this year’s midterm elections

With days of campaign left to go, around 39 million Americans have already voted in this year’s pivotal midterm elections.

​The surge in early voting comes just under a week before most people head to the polls, with President Donald Trump throwing his weight behind Republican campaigns with a series of rallies.

​Currently, the GOP controls both the House and the Senate, but some polls have shown that the Democratic Party could flip the balance of power in Congress.

Around 18.6 million mail-in votes and 21 million in-person votes have already been cast to decide who will control Congress, according to an analysis by NBC News on Thursday. The analysis looked at state data and figures provided by the Democratic-aligned research firm TargetSmart.

​Forty-seven percent of those who have voted are registered as Democrats, while 35 percent are registered as Republicans, the data shows.

​In the face of wider polling figures signalling frustration with his party, Trump has been a prominent figure in the GOP’s campaigns, appearing at a number of rallies to drum up support for Republican candidates.

​“Pretend I'm on the ballot, because if you get out, we're going to win big,” he told a crowd in Iowa.

​Meanwhile, Democrats are fighting close races in traditional GOP strongholds during this midterm cycle, with U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico neck-and-neck with Republican nominee Ken Paxton in Texas.

​As of Wednesday, more than 5 million votes have already been cast in Texas, according to data from the Election Lab at the University of Florida.

​In mid-October, Texas Secretary of State Robert Howden announced that the state had 19 million registered voters ahead of the election on November 3.

The state bucks the trend of more Democrats heading to the polls early, as the data reviewed by NBC News shows 45 percent of those who have already cast their ballots are registered as Republicans - compared to the 44 percent registered as Democrats.

​The data examined by the network also revealed that 77 percent of those who had voted early in Senate battleground states had voted previously in 2024 and 2022, compared to 16 percent who voted in 2024 only and six percent who did not vote in either election.

​Currently, the Republican Party holds 53 seats in the Senate compared to the Democrats’ 47 seats, which includes two independents who usually vote along with the party.

​The GOP also holds a majority in the House with 218 seats, compared to the Democrats’ 214 seats.

​The Democratic Party has targeted its campaigns at voter frustrations with the war in Iran and the cost of living, as well as stating that increased power in Congress would enable them to put checks on Trump’s policies.

​However, there has been some concern over whether Trump will accept the results of the November 3 elections, given that he has previously questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 Presidential Election and alleged that mail-in voting is susceptible to fraud.

​Asked earlier this week whether he will accept the results of the election, he replied: “I will if they’re honest elections.”