US midterm early voting tops 51 million ahead of Tuesday's vote

More than 51.3 million Americans had cast early ballots by Saturday afternoon, already exceeding the entire 2022 early-vote total of 45.9 million, according to the University of Florida's Election Lab.

All 435 House seats and 35 Senate seats are at stake on Tuesday in a contest that will decide control of Congress, with Democrats leading early-vote party registration tallies in states that track them.

Analysts caution that early-vote counts do not reliably predict the final result.