Nebraska · U.S. Senate
NE Class 2 Senate seat
Coverage: this seat is included in the 2026 national listing.
Candidate source
Candidate source: Nebraska Secretary of State, Elections Division — Final Statewide General Candidate List - November 3, 2026 General Election (9/11/2026) (retrieved 2026-09-28). Absence of a candidate row is never evidence that a race has no candidates.
How the candidate list was checked
Rows read from the official source: 17 · published here: 17 · left out by rule: 0 · held back for review: 0. Official Final Statewide General Candidate Filing List PDF (24 pages; 17 federal candidate rows). US Senate (Class I, Ricketts incumbent): Ricketts R, Marvin (Legal Marijuana NOW), Richards (Nebraska Working People), Conboy (America First), Osborn (By Petition). House: all 3 districts present (01 Flood R/Backemeyer D/Sandman L/Hartong America First; 02 Harding R/Powell D/Foreman L; 03 Smith R/Stille D/Else LMN/Budke NWP/Cohen By Petition). Party as printed on the filing list; 'By Petition' is the petition-candidate designation. Former host elections.nebraska.gov is NXDOMAIN (moved to sos.nebraska.gov). Senate rows carry senate_class=2 designation=regular: NE is in the official Senate Class II registry (the state's only scheduled 2026 Senate race), so the seat identity is derived from the registry, not defaulted. STATUS BASIS (audited 2026-09-28, second round): Neb. Rev. Stat. §32-624 directs the Secretary of State to prepare the official general-election candidate list after the filing deadline; the source is titled 'Final' and published 9/11/2026 (post-primary), making it the certified general roster, hence status_basis=state_certified_list. CLASS NOTE CORRECTION: an earlier note called the Senate seat 'Class I, Ricketts incumbent' — the official Senate directory shows Ricketts holds Nebraska's Class II seat (Fischer holds Class I), and Nebraska is in the official 33-state Class II registry, so this is the REGULAR Class II race (senate_class=2, designation=regular).
Boundaries and sources
County–district classifications come from official block-assignment files, cross-checked against Census representations; render geometry is display-only.
Current officeholder
The current officeholder has not been confirmed in this edition. This does not establish that the seat is vacant.
Upcoming contests
2026-11-03 — general
Chuck Conboy · America First
Qualified for the general-election ballot
Dan Osborn · By Petition
Qualified for the general-election ballot
Mike Marvin · Legal Marijuana NOW
Qualified for the general-election ballot
Pete Ricketts · Republican
Qualified for the general-election ballot
Robin Richards · Nebraska Working People
Qualified for the general-election ballot
Polling
Not charted: fewer than 3 nonpartisan polls to identify the matchup.
PrivateVoteHub Polls from the VoteHub Polling API, retrieved October 7, 2026, used under CC BY 4.0. How polls are chosen
Economic profile of the state this seat represents
FederalCensus Bureau American Community Survey 2020-2024 (5-year) · survey period 2020-2024 · State of Nebraska
- Median household income$76,475± $633
- Poverty rate10.6%± 0.3 ppPopulation for whom poverty status is determined
- Rent burden (30%+ of income on gross rent)45.1%± 0.8 ppRenter-occupied households paying cash rent for which rent burden is computed
- Homeownership rate66.5%± 0.5 ppOccupied housing units
- Bachelor's degree or higher (age 25+)34.6%± 0.4 ppPopulation 25 years and over
Technical definitions (ACS tables)
- Rent burden (30%+ of income on gross rent)
- Renter-occupied households paying cash rent for which rent burden is computed: B25070_001 minus B25070_011 (Not computed)
This seat's geography is exactly coterminous with its state (or the District), so the state estimates from the same edition apply directly.
Structural five-year survey conditions — not current monthly conditions. Uncertainties are 90% margins of error: the published ACS margin for median income; Census-formula approximations (ACS handbook ch. 8) for the rates. “Margin unavailable” means the source supplies no usable margin — never zero.
Campaign finances
2025-2026 two-year period (FEC cycle 2026). Committee totals are the FEC’s own candidate-level aggregation — never summed from committee rows here. Independent spending is reported separately and is never part of a candidate’s receipts. An FEC registration is not proof of ballot qualification; candidacy status comes verbatim from the accepted release.
General election · November 3, 2026
“No matching FEC candidate record” means no filing was located — it is never evidence that a candidacy does not exist, and never a ballot-status claim. Candidates’ coverage dates can differ; each row carries its own.
Current officeholder — Congress.gov context
Pete Ricketts · Republican · Nebraska · served in 2 Congresses since 2023
Identity verified against the official Congress.gov member record (Bioguide R000618), recorded through 2026-10-04T02:54:23Z. Current officeholding is separate from 2026 candidacy status. Official member website.
Recent housing, employment, energy and infrastructure legislation
From the member's sponsored then cosponsored legislation lists (newest first, limit 30 each), the newest items whose CONFIRMED official legislative subjects intersect {Housing and Community Development, Labor and Employment, Energy, Transportation and Public Works, Water Resources Development} are selected, at most 3 sponsored and 2 cosponsored, 5 total. Items whose relevance cannot be confirmed via the official /subjects endpoint are omitted.
- SRES.747-119 — A resolution expressing support for the designation of May 2026 as "Renewable Fuels Month" to recognize the important role that renewable fuels play in lowering fuel prices for consumers, lessening reliance on foreign adversaries, supporting rural communities, and reducing carbon impacts.sponsor latest action 2026-05-21: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S2435; text: CR S2445) · subjects: Energy
- S.5028-119 — Ratepayer Protection Actcosponsor latest action 2026-07-16: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. · subjects: Energy
Sponsorship is a record of introduction or support — not passage, effectiveness, or economic impact.
Counties and this district
County boundaries for this seat are not published in this release. Explore individual counties on the county map.