2026 United States elections (Bismarck America)

The 2026 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, in the middle of Democratic President Jonathan S. Bismarck's second term. The rarest midterm result under a second term President since 1998, the Democratic Party retained control of both chambers of Congress without losing a single seat to the Republicans.

Republicans wanted to avoid 2022 and 2024 debacles, they avoided attacking President Bismarck too much and kept the temperature of negative partisanship low, they instead focused on local issues while attack Washington in general, but the last campaign strategy proved to be disastrous while it was smart not to attack Bismarck.

Democrats retained a strong majority in the Senate while flipping Vermont from the Independents, which was a partisan gain, not a coalition gain. In the House of Representatives, Democrats maintained a strong majority there while gaining seats in the process, marking the first time since 1998 that a President's party avoided the so-called "six-year-itch" by not losing any seats in the house and the first midterm since 1966 that a second term President's party didn't lose unified control of Congress. Despite disappointing election results in Congress, the Republicans managed to gain seats in the gubernatorial races, gaining 11, yet Democrats still maintained control, and Republicans gained control of many state and local offices elsewhere.

This disastrous result in Congress for Republicans and successes in state and local elections is an indication of the Republicans' message of anti-Washington message blowing back on them by unintentionally discouraging Republican and Independent voters from voting for congressional candidates in the midst of President Bismarck's unpopularity. Disappointment with the results caused an internet civil war with Republican leaders as the party deals with the embarrassment of losing to an unpopular President's party in a big historic defeat. But despite the disaster, the Republican decision not to overplay their hand in attacking President Bismarck was a smart move because it helped the Republicans avoid a 2022 and 2024 catastrophe in the midst of escalating public fatigue of negative partisan politics.