Here are the results of the early exit polls.

Preliminary exit poll findings are only starting to come in on election night, but they provide a glimpse of what voters will be thinking as they cast their votes on Tuesday.

Even if such surveys may not accurately predict the outcome of the election, they do provide some insight into the topics that are on Americans’ minds the most in the run-up to a vote that both parties have described as being of extremely important significance.

Here are the first five conclusions from the exit polls.

Abortion and inflation are the top two issues on voters’ minds

It shouldn’t be a surprise that inflation and abortion rights, the two topics that have dominated the midterm elections, were on voters’ thoughts on Tuesday as they cast their ballots.

According to Edison Research’s exit polling, 44% of voters who favor Democrats cited abortion as their main worry, while over 50% of those who support Republican candidates cited inflation.

In a similar vein, a survey conducted by ABC and The Washington Post revealed that 32% of respondents ranked inflation as their top concern. However, abortion came in second with a percentage of 27%.

According to CBS News’ exit polling conducted in Pennsylvania, a crucial battleground state, 36 percent of respondents are most worried about abortion. With a 28 percent rate, inflation came in second.

After the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, the important decision concerning reproductive rights, in June, Democrats ran their campaigns throughout the summer and into the autumn with the theme of maintaining and safeguarding abortion rights.

Republicans, on the other hand, have pushed to pin the blame for the persistently high level of inflation on President Biden and Democrats, capitalizing on the time-honored political tenet that Americans will eventually cast their votes with their wallets.

Americans disapprove of Biden

With very few exceptions, midterm elections are often seen as a vote on the president in office. Biden is also not an exception.

Only 45% of voters, according to Edison Research’s exit survey, are satisfied with Biden’s work performance. When Democrats regained control of the House in 2018, the former president Trump’s position was almost the same.

Nearly half of respondents, according to the same exit polls, think that Biden’s policies are mostly harming the nation, while just 36% think they are helping it.

Voters aren’t especially excited about Biden running for president again after 2022. According to exit polls from ABC and The Washington Post, 38% of Democrats and 30% of Americans do not want to see Biden run for office again.

Trump, meanwhile, is still unpopular.

The majority of voters may not like Biden. However, his predecessor doesn’t have much of a foundation either.

Only 37% of respondents think favorably of the former president, who has suggested that he’s about to announce another run for the White House, according to Edison Research’s exit polls.

According to exit polls, around 60% of respondents had a negative impression of Trump.

And the majority of people aren’t turning out to vote for Trump. Only roughly 16 percent of Americans, according to an Edison Research survey, are voting to support the former president.

The public believes that democracy is at peril.

Democrats have stated that voters have the opportunity to save American democracy in the midterm elections in 2022. Republicans, on the other hand, have advocated for stricter voting regulations and have questioned the veracity of the country’s election results.

According to exit polls from ABC and The Washington Post, 70% of voters believe that American democracy is under danger. This suggests that these arguments are having an impact.

Among them are 72% of Democrats and 68% of Republicans. Independents, on the other hand, skew more Democratic. According to the research, 71% of people think that democracy is under risk.

The voting population is becoming older

Only around one in ten voters this year are under the age of thirty, according to Edison Research’s exit polls, while nearly one-third are 65 or older.

In contrast, during the most recent midterm elections in 2018, just 13% of voters were under the age of 30, and roughly 26% were 65 or over.

It is hardly surprising that older individuals vote more often than younger ones. However, same people also often support the GOP. That may be good news for Republicans, who want to retake the majority in the House and Senate this year.

According to the Edison Research survey, nearly 40% of this year’s voters are white and college-educated. These voters made up roughly 31% of the electorate in 2018.

A significant Democratic voting group, voters of color, are projected to make up a somewhat less portion of the electorate than they did four years ago.