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US midterm elections 2026: key battlegrounds and stakes

Rank
Ran
36h
Updated
28h ago
Final
Outlets
6
Regions
1
Countries
5
Languages
4

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El País Spain · Spanish 3 Oct, 03:30 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in Français (3) · Ελληνικά (1) · Српски (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 38 hours.

2 4 6
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: El País, 3 Oct, 03:30 UTC.
  2. Second country: France, with Libération.
  3. Last article: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

38 of 38 hours

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The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Europe 6 outlets · 5 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. El País 3 Oct, 03:30 UTC
  2. Libération +3h 14m
  3. Blic +26h 3m
  4. To Vima +32h 32m
  5. Le Soir +35h 26m

Last to join

  1. Le Monde 4 Oct, 17:00 UTC
  2. Le Soir 4 Oct, 14:56 UTC
  3. To Vima 4 Oct, 12:01 UTC
  4. Blic 4 Oct, 05:33 UTC
  5. Libération 3 Oct, 06:44 UTC

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: 2026 US midterm elections polling and race predictions, 30 Sept to 2 Oct 2026, 6 outlets.

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 5 countries. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 6 outlets, 6 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 5: Belgium, France, Greece, Serbia, Spain. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Greek, Spanish, French, Serbian.
Timeline
Earliest article El País, 3 Oct 2026, 03:30 UTC. First seen 3 Oct 2026, 04:10 UTC. Last seen 4 Oct 2026, 17:00 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Americas, United States. Topic Politics. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.01, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continues 2026 US midterm elections polling and race predictions. Continued by Washington está em transição para a era pós-Trump; Who’s Winning the Battle for Congress?; US midterm elections 2026 polling and issues. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
4 Oct 2026 365 2.45 6 5 4 4 4.1

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Started 3 Oct, 04:10 UTC · Updated 4 Oct, 17:00 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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Europe 6 outlets

  • Le Monde France 4 Oct, 17:00 UTC
    Midterms 2026 : Donald Trump prend en main la campagne républicaine pour mieux assurer sa propre promotion
  • Le Soir Belgium 4 Oct, 14:56 UTC
    Etats-Unis : pourquoi les élections de mi-mandat sont-elles cruciales ?
  • To Vima Greece 4 Oct, 12:01 UTC
    Αμερικανικές ενδιάμεσες εκλογές 2026: Η γεωγραφία των πολιτικών ανατροπών
  • Blic Serbia 4 Oct, 05:33 UTC
    Zahuktava se izborna trka za američki Senat: Koje države su NAJVAŽNIJA BOJIŠTA za Trampovu većinu?
  • Libération France 3 Oct, 06:44 UTC
    Elections américaines de mi-mandat : les batailles décisives en cartes
  • El País Spain 3 Oct, 03:30 UTC
    Elecciones de medio mandato en Estados Unidos: siete batallas que definirán el futuro post-Trump
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