Voting begins in US midterm elections – in pictures

Voters went to polling stations across the United States on Tuesday 3 November for midterm elections that will determine control of the House of Representatives and the Senate for the remainder of President Donald Trump’s second term. All 435 House seats and roughly a third of Senate seats are contested in a midterm election. Voters are also choosing governors and other state and local officials, depending on where they live.

Photographs from election day show queues before dawn in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Texas, alongside voters casting ballots in New York, Virginia, Maine and Michigan. Poll workers prepared voting sites, while candidates and elected officials appeared at polling places and campaign events. The images capture the practical work of voting across varied communities; they do not establish an election result or a nationwide turnout figure.