# Decided by 99 votes: the closest races of 2026 Published 2026-11-07 · By Pushbuild · Data: [Election Night Results API – Live State Returns](https://pushbuild.com/apis/election-night-results.html) **99**Decided by · as of 2026-11-07 **The closest race in our results is North Carolina's 5th district: Chuck Hubbard leads Virginia Foxx by 99 votes out of 285,498** (0.03 points), with every precinct reporting. Minnesota's 1st (322 votes) and North Carolina's 3rd (233 votes) were within a tenth of a point. Hover or tap a state for its value. Same numbers as the table below. ## The 20 closest House, Senate and governor races | State | Race | Leader | Second | Votes apart | Margin (pts) | Count | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | NC | House 5 | Chuck Hubbard (DEM) | Virginia Foxx (REP) | 99 | 0.03 | all units in | | MN | House 1 | Jake Johnson (DFL) | Brad Finstad (R) | 322 | 0.10 | all units in | | NC | House 3 | Greg Murphy (REP) | Raymond Smith (DEM) | 233 | 0.10 | all units in | | LA | House 6 | Chauna Banks (DEM) | Blake Miguez (REP) | 665 | 0.25 | all units in | | AK | Senate | Peltola, Mary (DEM) | Sullivan, Dan S. (REP) | 637 | 0.30 | still counting | | FL | House 27 | Maria Elvira Salazar (REP) | Eliott Rodriguez (DEM) | 1,090 | 0.44 | all units in | | FL | House 7 | Ryan Elijah (REP) | Bale Dalton (DEM) | 1,631 | 0.50 | all units in | | FL | House 9 | Darren Soto (DEM) | Dan Green (REP) | 1,506 | 0.53 | all units in | | LA | House 5 | Patricia "Pat" Moore (DEM) | "Gabe" Firment (REP) | 1,653 | 0.73 | all units in | | FL | House 26 | Mario Diaz-Balart (REP) | Nicole Locklin (DEM) | 1,704 | 0.74 | all units in | | NC | House 7 | David Rouzer (REP) | Kimberly Hardy (DEM) | 2,425 | 0.76 | all units in | | FL | House 13 | Anna Paulina Luna (REP) | Leela Gray (DEM) | 2,491 | 0.79 | all units in | | SC | House 2 | Joe Wilson (REP) | Zyon Khalifa (DEM) | 2,926 | 0.99 | still counting | | NC | House 10 | Pat Harrigan (REP) | Ashley Bell (DEM) | 3,029 | 1.03 | all units in | | SC | House 1 | Nancy Lacore (DEM) | Jenny Costa Honeycutt (REP) | 3,352 | 1.03 | still counting | | AZ | House 2 | Eli Crane (REP) | Jonathan Nez (DEM) | 3,916 | 1.19 | all units in | | OK | House 5 | STEPHANIE BICE (REP) | JENA NELSON (DEM) | 3,336 | 1.26 | all units in | | FL | Governor | Donalds / Avila (REP) | Jolly / Graham (DEM) | 106,240 | 1.28 | still counting | | LA | Senate | Julia Letlow (REP) | "Jamie" Davis (DEM) | 25,850 | 1.76 | all units in | | NC | House 8 | Mark Harris (REP) | Colby Watson (DEM) | 5,179 | 1.77 | all units in | ## Still counting Alaska's Senate race (Peltola ahead by 637 votes) and South Carolina's 1st and 2nd districts are not final. California and Washington count mail ballots for weeks, so their close House races may join this list. ## Source Unofficial results from state election offices via our election-night-results API, read Nov 6. Certified results can differ. ## Sources - Election Night Results API – Live State Returns: the primary sources are listed on the [API page](https://pushbuild.com/apis/election-night-results.html), read on 2026-11-07 Data as of 2026-11-07. Every figure in this post is in the table above and the CSV below. Download the data behind this post: [midterms-closest-races-2026.csv](https://pushbuild.com/apis/analysis/data/midterms-closest-races-2026.csv) ## Get this data Every number in this post comes from the [Election Night Results API – Live State Returns](https://pushbuild.com/apis/election-night-results.html). $0.0001 per row returned; every key gets $1 of free usage each month. ``` curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/election-night-results/run \ -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"states": "NC,IA,CO", "year": 2022, "maxItems": 20}' ``` [API docs and key](https://pushbuild.com/apis/election-night-results.html)[More analysis from this data](https://pushbuild.com/apis/analysis/api/election-night-results/)Embed this chart Free to reuse with the credit link. Paste this HTML into your page, or use the [SVG file](https://pushbuild.com/apis/analysis/closest-races-2026/chart.svg). Want a table like this in Google Sheets, refreshed on demand? 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