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Apart from general elections and by-elections, a midterm election refers to a type of election where the people can elect their representatives and other subnational officeholders (e.g. governor, members of local council) in the middle of the term of the executive. This is usually used to describe elections to a governmental body (generally a legislature) that are staggered so that the total number of offices of that body would not be up for election at the same time.

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🇺🇸 Could the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act Decision Affect the Midterms? (2026-02-28)
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🇺🇸 Virginia Gov. Spanberger to give Democrats' response to Trump's State of the Union (2026-02-19)
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