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Jimmy Kimmel Live Sets Midterm Election Telecast Ratings Record
The Tuesday midterm election episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live drew 2.4 million viewers on ABC, according to Nielsen.
That was 53% more than the show’s midterm telecast in 2022 and its highest audience ever for one.
Among adults aged 18 to 49, its rating rose to 0.32 from 0.19 in 2022.
For the week, the show averaged 2.5 million viewers and ranked first among late-night competitors in both audience and the 18-to-49 rating.
It has held that lead for all seven weeks of the broadcast season so far, while its season audience average is 16% higher than at the same point last year.
This is the show’s fifth straight season of year-over-year growth by Week 7, and the current season is on track to be its most-watched in 12 years.
Jimmy Kimmel Live drew 2.4 million viewers for its Tuesday night midterm election episode on ABC, according to Nielsen.
The audience was 53% higher than for the show’s most recent midterm election telecast in 2022.
It was the show’s biggest midterm election telecast audience ever.
The episode scored a 0.32 rating among adults aged 18–49, up from 0.19 in 2022.
The show averaged 2.5 million viewers for the week and led its late-night competitors in both viewers and the adults 18–49 rating.
- Who
- Jimmy Kimmel Live, the ABC late-night talk show.
- What
- Its midterm election telecast drew 2.4 million viewers, its highest audience for such a broadcast.
- When
- Tuesday night during the midterm elections last week. The article was published Nov. 12, 2026.
- Where
- ABC.
- Why
- Not stated.
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Jimmy Kimmel Live’s most recent previous midterm election telecast drew 1.6 million viewers and a 0.19 rating among adults aged 18–49.
Kimmel returned to the air after a suspension, in an episode that the article says was the show’s highest-rated in more than a year, excluding episodes with sports lead-ins.
Jimmy Kimmel Live drew 2.4 million viewers and a 0.32 rating among adults aged 18–49.
- Midterm telecast audience
- 2.4 million viewers
- Change from 2022
- 53% increase
- Adults 18–49 rating
- 0.32
- Weekly average audience
- 2.5 million viewers
- Season-to-date audience
- 2.5 million viewers, up 16% from 2.1 million at the same point last season