Midterm Election

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, Midterm Election has been mentioned in one podcast episode on The Diary Of A CEO (Nov 2026). Explains U.S. election timing and why the midterms create a two-month transfer-of-power window that is particularly risky for political violence and executive incentives to…

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 in the middle of the term of the executive. This is usually used to describe elections to a governmental body that are staggered so that the total number of offices of that body would not be up for election at the same time. Only a fraction of a body seats are up for election while others are not until the terms of the