The midterm elections are officially underway and contests in Texas and North Carolina will be the first major opportunity for parties to hear from voters about what's important to them in 2026.

A pair of volatile Senate contests in Texas will headline the first primary night of the 2026 midterm season.

If you need to find your precinct for Election Day, visit the Texas Secretary of State's website and use the voter portal. You can access it here. Polling locations are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Below is a map and list of voting locations in Travis County on Election Day.

Democrats hope for a chance to grab a Senate seat as Republicans turn on each other in a bruising race.

"Senator Cornyn performs strongest among Republican Primary voters with college degrees, leading Paxton 43% to 32%, and voters over 70, 52% to 35%, while Paxton leads with voters under 50, 38% to 22%, and voters in their 50s and 60s, 44% to 30%," Kimball said.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to hold an advantage over Senator John Cornyn heading into Tuesday’s Republican Senate primary, with both recent polling and prediction markets signaling momentum behind his campaign.

The elections in Texas on Tuesday will be the first held using a new congressional map drawn last summer by state Republicans, who took the unusual step of altering their districts in the middle of a decade at the behest of President Trump.

Texas voters will head to the polls four times in 2026. Here are the key dates, deadlines, and voting hours to know.