The 2026 ballot
Every U.S. House seat on the 2026 ballot — all 435 voting districts plus 6 nonvoting delegate seats — and every Senate seat whose class is up in 2026, built from official Census and Senate sources with saved evidence. Candidate coverage is verified state by state and varies; the map and the coverage ledger say exactly how far each state goes. An empty candidate list is never shown as an empty race.
Data as of 2026-09-28. Candidate coverage varies by state.
About this data (technical)
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The election map
One map, four lenses. Presidential carries the certified 2024 result; Senate highlights the states with a 2026 contest; House shades all 435 voting seats by each state’s candidate-coverage class. Click a state to drill into its districts, or reach any seat from the chooser. Hot Races lists the statewide contests in the states with the closest 2024 presidential result, plus North Carolina and Vermont contests scored on how open they are; it uses no polls and is not a forecast.
Senate seats come from the official list of Class II seats, the third of the Senate elected in 2026: 33 regular contests in 2026, plus 2 scheduled special elections (FL, Class 3, 2026-11-03; OH, Class 3, 2026-11-03). Blue states have a scheduled 2026 Senate contest; gray states do not — the profile of a no-contest state says so instead of manufacturing a race.
Looking ahead to the presidency? The simulation behind Counties in focus ranks every county by how often, in simulated elections, a different result in that county alone changes the Electoral College winner, under a stated prior with no polls. It compares counties; it is not a forecast.
Upcoming federal contests
Only confirmed event dates appear. The next federal election day is the November 3, 2026 general election, plus the 2 verified special elections listed below. No presidential contest is scheduled in 2026, so none is displayed.
- 2026-11-03 — general election (all 435 voting House seats; 33 regular Senate contests + 2 scheduled Senate special elections)
- 2026-11-03 — Senate FL special election, Class 3 (scheduled) · seat profile
- 2026-11-03 — Senate OH special election, Class 3 (scheduled) · seat profile
- House vacancy special elections (FL-20, TX-23) — dates still TBD; tracked as pending vacancies, not scheduled events.
Special-election counts come from the scheduled dates in the seat list. House vacancies whose special-election date is still TBD are listed as pending and are never counted as scheduled events.
U.S. House — national coverage
Every voting district is listed using the Census 120th-Congress boundaries. North Carolina and Vermont also have detailed pilot profiles. Each card below carries its state’s coverage class and opens that state’s map drill-down; the coverage ledger lists what is verified versus pending for every state.
- 435 voting House seats
- 6 nonvoting delegate / resident-commissioner seats
- 20 states with verified candidate coverage
- 4 states partially verified
- 10 states with seats listed but candidates not yet published
- 22 states where collection is blocked (source named)
Blocked states (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin) stay in the seat list with their official source recorded — the blocker is documented in the coverage ledger, not papered over.
Alaska
California
Colorado
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Illinois
Indiana
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Michigan
Missouri
Nebraska
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Wyoming
District of Columbia
Puerto Rico
American Samoa
Guam
Northern Mariana Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands
U.S. Senate
Senate contests come from the official list of Class II seats, the third of the Senate elected in 2026 — 33 regular Class 2 seats are up in 2026, plus 2 scheduled special elections (Florida, Class 3; Ohio, Class 3) filling unexpired terms. States without a scheduled contest keep an explicit no-contest profile instead of a manufactured race.
Alabama · Class 2
Alaska · Class 2
Arkansas · Class 2
Colorado · Class 2
Delaware · Class 2
Florida · Class 3
Georgia · Class 2
Idaho · Class 2
Illinois · Class 2
Iowa · Class 2
Kansas · Class 2
Kentucky · Class 2
Louisiana · Class 2
Maine · Class 2
Massachusetts · Class 2
Michigan · Class 2
Minnesota · Class 2
Mississippi · Class 2
Montana · Class 2
Nebraska · Class 2
New Hampshire · Class 2
New Jersey · Class 2
New Mexico · Class 2
North Carolina · Class 2
Ohio · Class 3
Oklahoma · Class 2
Oregon · Class 2
Rhode Island · Class 2
South Carolina · Class 2
South Dakota · Class 2
Tennessee · Class 2
Texas · Class 2
Virginia · Class 2
West Virginia · Class 2
Wyoming · Class 2
Hot Races has two lists. The statewide list ranks every 2026 Senate and at-large House contest by how close the state’s 2024 presidential result was and highlights the closest. The North Carolina and Vermont list scores 16 contests on how open they are (open seat, first-term incumbent, field size, primary competition), with at most 2 highlighted. Neither uses polls or predicts a close result. How the lists work.
Coverage and verification
National coverage: 435 voting House seats (districts as drawn for the 120th Congress) plus 6 nonvoting seats counted separately; 33 regular Senate contests plus 2 scheduled Senate special elections, plus 2 House vacancy special elections still marked date TBD. Candidate coverage is per state and varies — the coverage ledger distinguishes verified, partial, listed-only and blocked states. The North Carolina and Vermont structural ranking was not recomputed nationally; the statewide list uses only the 2024 presidential result.
- 435 voting House seats (6 nonvoting counted separately)
- 33 regular + 2 special scheduled Senate contests, plus 3 additional represented Senate seats with no scheduled 2026 contest — this release represents 38 Senate seat identities; unrepresented seats are not classified
- 928 published candidate records — source basis: 833 State-certified list, 76 County official candidate list, 11 County-certified candidate list, 8 County clerk unofficial list
- 439 current officeholder records, each with evidence
- 56 states with per-district geometry
Candidate status language is deliberate: a state-certified list may support “qualified for general”, a filing list supports “filed with state”, and an FEC registration is identity only — never ballot qualification. A state with listed-only coverage has its seats published and its candidate source named, but no verified candidate rows yet; that is a coverage statement, not a statement about the race.