{"data":[{"id":"races-and-candidates","label":"2026 races and candidates","scope":"Every November 3, 2026 general-election race for U.S. Senate, U.S. House and governor in the 50 states, with every candidate printed on the ballot. Write-ins aren't included.","coverage":"full","tiers":["supercitizen"],"upstreams":[],"note":"Transcribed from each state election office's official candidate list, and cited to it. That makes it SuperCitizen's work, not an import, until a state publishes its list as data we can pass through unchanged. DC and the territories aren't covered. Each state's known gaps are listed with it.","endpoints":["/api/v1/races","/api/v1/candidates","/api/v1/lookup"],"states":[{"state":"AK","gaps":["Governor and lieutenant governor run as one ticket on Alaska's ballot; we record the governor candidate's name. The running mates as printed are: Dave Bronson with Josh Church; Jonathan S. \"JKT\" Kreiss-Tomkins with Zac Johnson; Treg Taylor with Candi English; Bernadette M. Wilson with Michael K. Shower. The Kreiss-Tomkins ticket's label is printed as \"Registered Democrat/Nonpartisan\" (Kreiss-Tomkins is a registered Democrat and Johnson is nonpartisan); we record Kreiss-Tomkins's own label.","Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.: the Division's 2026 general-election candidate list shows his registration as \"Undeclared\", but the Division's general-election sample ballots print no affiliation next to his name, so we record no party label. The Division de-certified his candidacy on June 15, 2026 (letter from the Division director posted on its website); its later primary and general candidate lists show him as certified and he is printed on the general-election sample ballots, so we include him. Neither list says why he was restored.","The Division also lists certified write-in candidates for these offices, who are not printed on the ballot and are excluded here: for US Senate, Sidney \"Sid\" Hill and Heather McElwain; for US House, Lady Donna Dutchess; for governor, the tickets of Meda DeWitt / Christopher \"Chris\" Steere and James W. \"JP4\" Parkin / Ramadhani \"Ram\" Greer.","The candidate list marks Dan S. Sullivan and Nick Begich as incumbents; the sample ballot prints \"Incumbent\" only next to Dan S. Sullivan. No governor candidate is marked as the incumbent.","The same November 3 ballot carries Ballot Measure No. 2, which would restore party primaries and end ranked-choice general elections; this election itself is run under the current ranked-choice rules described in the Division's election information.","Ballot order rotates by House district on Alaska's sample ballots; candidates here are listed in the order of the Division's candidate list."]},{"state":"AL","gaps":["Party labels follow the Secretary of State's county sample ballots, which print \"Democrat\" and \"Republican\"; the state certifications name the parties as the Alabama Democratic Party and the Alabama Republican Party.","No independent or minor-party candidates are certified for these races; the state's independent-candidate certification lists only legislative candidates."]},{"state":"AR","gaps":["We found no published copy of the candidate lists the Secretary of State certifies to county election boards. This file uses the races and candidates set up on the Secretary of State's official election-results site for the November 3, 2026 election, which does not say the list is certified, so certified is false.","The results site shows names with a party prefix (for example \"REP Tom Cotton\"); the prefix is dropped here and the party is given as a label instead.","The Pulaski County Board of Election Commissioners' notice of election, which covers the Senate and governor races and Districts 1, 2 and 4, lists the same candidates and prints office titles before some names, such as \"Senator Tom Cotton\", \"Congressman Rick Crawford\", \"Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders\" and \"State Senator Fred Love\"; titles are left out here. District 3 (Bobby Wilson, Robb Ryerse, Steve Womack) was not checked against a county ballot or notice.","Ballot order differs by county in Arkansas; candidates are listed in the order the results site uses."]},{"state":"AZ","gaps":["The Secretary of State's 2026 General Election page sits behind a Cloudflare human-verification check, so it cannot be read by script. We cleared the check in an ordinary browser, read the Federal and State tabs there on October 28, 2026, and saved a copy of the list as printed; this file is built from that saved copy, not from a scripted download.","Not marked certified: nothing in the saved copy of the Secretary of State's page says the list is certified or final.","The page also lists nine declared write-in candidates, each marked \"Write-In Candidate\". Write-in names are not printed on the ballot, so they are left out: Dev Gupta and Gage Dylan Thunder (District 1), Jacob Parkman (District 3), Steven Sanders (District 4), Michael Dorland (District 6), G. Seville Hatch and William Perry (District 9), and Gertritrude Gonzalez and Alice Novoa (governor).","The page prints party abbreviations. For the candidates listed here we spelled them out: REP Republican, DEM Democratic, LBT Libertarian, GRN Green and NOL No Labels.","Katie Hobbs is marked as the incumbent governor because the Arizona governor's official website identifies her as the current governor. The Secretary of State's list does not mark incumbents.","Arizona has no U.S. Senate race on the November 3, 2026 ballot.","The Secretary of State's list shows governor candidates only; it lists no running mates or lieutenant governor candidates beside them."]},{"state":"CA","gaps":["The certified list marks incumbents with an asterisk only in some state races and marks no candidate for Governor or U.S. House, so this file does not record incumbency for any candidate.","The certified list prints Kevin Kiley's (District 6) party preference as \"No Party Preference\"; the Secretary of State says a candidate with no qualified-party preference is shown on the ballot itself as \"Party Preference: None\". We recorded the label as the certified list prints it."]},{"state":"CO","gaps":["The Secretary of State's web list prints the unaffiliated 6th District candidate as Samir Ezzeldin Witta, while the Excel version of the same list prints Samir Witta; we used the web list's spelling and could not confirm which form is printed on the ballot.","The July 28, 2026 ballot-order drawing gave the American Constitution Party a ballot position in the U.S. Senate race, but the certified candidate list shows no candidate from that party for the Senate; we followed the certified list."]},{"state":"CT","gaps":["We could not find a single certified candidate list on the Secretary of the State's website, so this file is marked not certified. It is built from the official sample ballots the Secretary of the State posted for all 169 towns (page updated October 21, 2026) and checked against the candidate appendix of the Secretary's 2026 Voter Guide. Every town's ballot showed the same candidates and party lines for governor and for its congressional district.","Connecticut has no U.S. Senate race on the November 3, 2026 ballot.","The governor and lieutenant governor are elected together and printed as one entry (\"Ned Lamont and Susan Bysiewicz\"; \"Ryan Fazio and Matt Corey\"). This file lists the governor candidates only.","A few towns print a name slightly differently. In District 1, Barkhamsted and Hartford print \"Mary L Sanders\" (no period) where most towns print \"Mary L. Sanders\". In District 3, North Haven prints \"Rosa DeLauro\" and Naugatuck prints \"Rosa L DeLauro\" where most towns print \"Rosa L. DeLauro\". We used the spelling most towns print.","Some ballot names are fuller than in the Voter Guide (for example, the guide lists George Austin, Michael Goldstein, Mary Sanders and Rosa DeLauro). We used the names as printed on the ballots.","The ballots do not mark incumbents, so House incumbency is left to be derived separately."]},{"state":"DE","gaps":["The Department of Elections list is titled Filed Candidates by Office, marks each candidate Qualified or Withdrawn, and says it is updated periodically. It does not say the list is certified or final, so certified is false. The list's last-updated date was October 27, 2026, the day we read it.","Lee Murphy (Republican, U.S. House) is marked Withdrawn as of July 21, 2026, before the September 15 primary, so he is not included.","No Libertarian, Independent Party of Delaware, other minor-party or unaffiliated candidate is listed for U.S. Senate or U.S. House. People who declared as write-in candidates for these offices are left out.","Delaware has no governor election in 2026."]},{"state":"FL","gaps":["Not marked certified: the Florida Division of Elections calls its candidate tracking system an unofficial reference, and we found no separately published certified list of general-election candidates. Every name here also appears in the general-election contests the Division has loaded on its results site (FloridaElectionWatch.gov), and the statewide races match the Levy County sample ballot.","U.S. Senate: Florida's list names the office 'United States Senator' without calling it a special election. We marked it special because Senate.gov lists Ashley Moody in Class III, whose term ends January 3, 2029, and Florida law fills a Senate vacancy at the next general election.","U.S. House District 10: Maxwell Alejandro Frost (Democrat, incumbent) is the only qualified candidate and the state lists him as unopposed. Florida law treats an unopposed candidate as elected without appearing on the general-election ballot (it deems the candidate to have voted for himself or herself), so this race has no candidates on the ballot and does not appear on the state's results site.","Florida enacted a new congressional map in 2026 (HB 1D). The Division told U.S. House candidates the new districts apply to the 2026 election, so the district numbers in this file follow the new map, not the 2024 one.","Florida's candidate list and ballot print three-letter party codes (REP, DEM, NPA, LPF, FFP, IND). We used the words the Division prints on each candidate's page (Republican, Democrat, No Party Affiliation). Where a candidate's page shows only a minor-party code, we used that party's registered name from the Division's party list: LPF is the Libertarian Party of Florida, FFP is the Florida Forward Party, and IND is the Independent Party of Florida (a party, not the same as no party affiliation).","Governor: Florida prints each governor candidate with a lieutenant governor running mate in one voting space. We recorded only the governor candidate. The running mates are Bryan Avila (with Byron Donalds), Gwen Graham (with David Jolly), Nicole Skelly (with Scott Eckhard Jewett), Ruben A. Coto (with Charles Burkett), Rachel Rodriguez (with Frank J. Russo), Benjiman Rojas (with Moliere \"Moe\" Dimanche), Joe Van Vactor (with Dean Ocean Abrams) and Juan Santana (with Jeffrey Peter \"Dr. Jeff\" Datto).","U.S. House District 6: Michael Gist (No Party Affiliation) qualified in June 2026, and the Division's document list shows a withdrawal letter dated September 16, 2026. The state list marks him withdrawn and its results site leaves him out of the District 6 contest, but Flagler County's official sample ballot still prints his name, so we list him, with a note on the race that he has withdrawn. Flagler County's election page lists September 15, 2026, the day before his withdrawal letter, as the date ballots were mailed to overseas voters. Flagler is one of the district's six counties; we did not check the other five counties' ballots.","U.S. House District 24: Andy Daro (No Party Affiliation) qualified in June 2026, but the state list marks him withdrawn and its results site leaves him out of the District 24 contest, so we left him out. We found no withdrawal date for him.","Governor: Desmond Meade (No Party Affiliation) qualified, then filed a withdrawal letter dated August 27, 2026. He is not on the Levy County sample ballot or the state's results site, so we left him out.","Qualified write-in candidates (for governor and in House Districts 5, 6, 14, 15, 19, 21, 24 and 25) are left out because their names are not printed on the ballot."]},{"state":"GA","gaps":["The Secretary of State's list of candidates to appear on the November 3 ballot (a spreadsheet linked from its general-election page) blocks scripted downloads but opens in an ordinary browser; it lists the same 32 candidates, with the same parties and incumbent marks, as this file. The file was first built from the Secretary of State's official results for the May 19 primary and the June 16 primary runoff, which show each party's nominee, and from official November 3 sample ballots published by county election offices, which show every candidate printed on the ballot.","Not marked certified: the Secretary of State's list describes its candidates as those to appear on the November General Election ballot but does not use the word certified.","Every race has exactly two candidates on the ballot, one Republican and one Democrat. The sample ballots show no Libertarian, independent or other candidates for these offices. Certified write-in candidates are left out.","District 3's November ballot comes from the state's online sample ballot for a Heard County precinct, served by the vendor Enhanced Voting (app.enhancedvoting.com), not from a county website.","Districts 11 and 14 rest on one general-election ballot source, the Cobb County consolidated sample ballot, whose file name on the county site includes 'DRAFT v4'. District 7 rests on Fulton County's consolidated sample ballot, which lists contests rather than showing the ballot itself. In all three, the names match the nominees in the state's primary and runoff results.","Incumbent markers come from the sample ballots, which print (I) or (Incumbent) next to sitting officeholders. Clay Fuller (District 14) is marked as the incumbent because he won the April 7, 2026 special runoff for the seat.","District 13 held a special election to fill a vacancy, and Everton \"EJ\" Blair won the August 25, 2026 special runoff. That contest is finished, so there is no District 13 special on the November ballot, and Blair is not a candidate for the full term.","Some county ballots and the Secretary of State's candidate list style names differently, such as John \"BONGO\" Salvesen (Fulton County and the state list) and Henry \"Hank\" Johnson Jr. without the comma (Gwinnett County and the state list). We used the spelling in the Secretary of State's official primary results, which matches the DeKalb County ballot.","The runoff rule and date come from Georgia.gov, the state government's website, not from the Secretary of State."]},{"state":"HI","gaps":["The Office of Elections' 2026 Candidate Report marks each filer's status; we include only candidates marked \"In General\" (the report says statuses are updated after each election to show the election in which a candidate appears). Every other filer for these offices is marked \"In Primary\" (did not advance) or \"Issued\" (papers issued but not filed). Neither the report nor the voter guide uses the word \"certified\", so certified is false. The Office's general-election voter guide lists exactly the same candidates.","Party labels: the candidate report prints parties in capitals (DEMOCRATIC, REPUBLICAN, GREEN, NONPARTISAN) and the voter guide prints letter codes with a legend (D, R, G, N); we use the report's wording in normal capitalization.","Hawaii has no US Senate race on the November 3, 2026 ballot; the Office's general-election voter guide has no US Senate section.","Josh Green is marked as the incumbent governor because the Hawaii governor's official website identifies him as the current governor; the candidate list itself does not mark incumbents."]},{"state":"IA","gaps":["The Secretary of State's candidate list (last updated August 19, 2026, the deadline for filling ballot vacancies) does not say whether it is certified.","Party labels are as the Secretary of State's candidate list prints them, including \"No Party\" for Michael Bridgford (District 1) and Dave Bushaw (District 2). We did not have a sample ballot to check the wording printed on the ballot."]},{"state":"ID","gaps":["The state's final candidate list marks the Democratic U.S. Senate nominee, David Roth, as withdrawn on September 1, 2026 and lists no replacement; we left him out, but could not confirm from an official source whether his name was removed from printed ballots.","The list also marks a Constitution Party filer for the 2nd District (ballot name \"C. Sierra - ID Law - Idaho Lorax\") as withdrawn on August 17, 2026; we left this filer out.","The Constitution Party candidate for governor appears on the official list under the ballot name \"Pro-Life\", which we kept as printed.","The Secretary of State's portal titles the list \"Final Candidates List\", so certified is true; the list itself does not use the word \"certified\"."]},{"state":"IL","gaps":["The State Board of Elections voted on August 21, 2026 to certify the November 3, 2026 general election ballot and let its staff amend the certification for court orders, withdrawals and similar changes. The Board does not post the certification document itself, so the candidates here come from its online candidate list for the general election, keeping only candidates the list shows as Active and not as write-ins or with an objection pending.","The online list prints names last name first and party names in capital letters. We used the first-name-first form each candidate's detail page shows (for example \"JB Pritzker\") and wrote party names in normal capitalization (for example \"Democratic\" for DEMOCRATIC).","Illinois elects the governor and lieutenant governor together. The list pairs JB Pritzker with Christian Mitchell (Democratic), Darren Bailey with Aaron B. Del Mar (Republican) and Collin Corbett with Carolyn Schofield (Independent); this file lists only the candidates for governor.","The list shows these filers as Removed, so they are not included: Tyrone F Muhammad (U.S. Senate, Independent); for governor and lieutenant governor, the Green ticket of Griselda Romero and Eyde Arndell, the Independence Party ticket of Gary Pierce and Alejandro Cabrera, and Richard Mayers (listed under the party label NEW); and Mayra Macias and Byron Sigcho Lopez (4th District, Independent).","The list does not mark incumbents. JB Pritzker is marked as the incumbent governor because the Illinois governor's official website identifies him as the current governor; no other incumbency is recorded here.","Campaign websites are the ones each candidate's detail page on the list shows; the list prints them without \"https://\", which we added."]},{"state":"IN","gaps":["The Indiana Election Division's posted general-election candidate list (generated September 22, 2026) does not say it is certified. The Division's August 2026 newsletter says it would certify the official candidate list to the county election boards by August 21, 2026, and its September 2026 newsletter says ballots were considered final as of September 4, 2026, apart from corrections or filled vacancies. The certification itself is not posted, so this file is marked as not certified.","The Division's August 2026 newsletter cautions that spellings on its website candidate list may differ from the certification sent to counties, which uses the ballot names the candidates supplied. Names here are as the website list prints them; we could not check them against the certified ballot names.","The list also includes five declared write-in candidates for U.S. House (in the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 9th Districts). Write-in candidates are not printed on the ballot, so they are left out.","Indiana has no U.S. Senate or governor race on the November 3, 2026 ballot; the list's federal section has only the nine U.S. House races, and none is a special election.","The list does not mark incumbents, so this file does not record incumbency for any candidate."]},{"state":"KS","gaps":["The Secretary of State's general election candidate list is an online table that appears only after a selection form is submitted, so we did not read it. The candidates here come from county election offices' official notices and candidate lists (Johnson, Cowley, Douglas, Saline, Shawnee and Sedgwick counties), checked against the Secretary of State's official primary results.","Because we could not read the state's own list, we could not confirm from a state source whether the general election candidate list is certified.","County sources differ on one name's punctuation: most print the Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate as David C Graham, while Johnson County's notice prints David C. Graham; we used the more common form."]},{"state":"KY","gaps":["Candidates here come from the Secretary of State's candidate filings for the 2026 General Election and match the official county sample ballots the Secretary of State posts, which state that the listed races will appear on the voting machines and paper ballots. Neither the filings nor the sample ballots use the word certified, so certified is false.","The Secretary of State's ballots page does not post a Jefferson County (District 3) sample ballot; it links instead to the Jefferson County Clerk's ballot lookup, which needs a voter's address. The District 3 candidates therefore rest on the Secretary of State's candidate filings alone.","Mohammad Wael Ahmad (Kentucky Party, District 4) is listed by the Secretary of State as withdrawn on August 10, 2026, and does not appear on the District 4 county sample ballots we checked (Campbell, Kenton, Boone), so he is excluded.","Write-in candidates on file are excluded: Thomas Michael Murphy (U.S. Senate), Peter Harmon Williams (District 4), Billy Ray Wilson (District 5) and Robert Quigley (District 6)."]},{"state":"LA","gaps":["The Secretary of State's Candidate Inquiry lists these candidates for the November 3, 2026 election but does not say the list is certified or final, and the Secretary of State's precinct sample ballots say they are not official ballots, so certified is false. The two sources list the same candidates in every race.","The precinct sample ballots put a comma before name suffixes (\"Troy A. Carter, Sr.\", \"Stewart Cathey, Jr.\", \"Larry Davis, III\"); names here follow the Candidate Inquiry, which has no comma."]},{"state":"MA","gaps":["The Secretary of the Commonwealth's '2026 State Election Candidates' page does not say the list is certified or final. The Secretary's sample ballots for November 3 show the same candidates, but each one is marked as not a valid official ballot.","Governor: the ballot lists each governor and lieutenant governor ticket by last names only: 'Healey and Driscoll' (Democratic), 'Minogue and Oliver' (Republican) and 'James and Kittredge' (Independent). We took the full names Maura Healey and Michael Roger Minogue from the Secretary's official results for the September 1, 2026 state primary. The independent ticket had no primary, so 'Andrea James' comes from the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance, which lists her as a candidate for governor whose name is on the ballot. That office is not an election office.","Incumbents: the sample ballots print 'Candidate for Re-election' under Markey and each re-running House member. The governor ticket line has no such note, so Maura Healey's incumbency comes from the governor's official website.","Districts 2, 5 and 7 have only one candidate on the ballot each: James P. McGovern, Katherine M. Clark and Ayanna S. Pressley.","District 8: the candidates page lists 'Robert G. Burke', but the sample ballot prints 'Robert Gerald Burke'. We used the ballot form.","District 1: the candidates page gives no party for Richard E. Neal. The sample ballot prints 'Democratic'.","We changed the ballot's capital letters to normal capitalization. We checked House races on one sample ballot per district: Palmer (1), Holden (2), Westford (3), Franklin (4), Belmont (5), Wakefield (6), Randolph (7), Braintree (8) and Barnstable (9)."]},{"state":"MD","gaps":["The State Board of Elections certified the content and arrangement of the general-election ballots on August 31, 2026. We read the governor and U.S. House contests on all 24 certified county ballots, and each one matches the State Board’s candidate list (last updated October 16, 2026) name for name and party for party.","Not listed here because their names are not printed on the ballot. Write-in candidates: Edward Shlikas (District 1), Robert L. Coffman (District 3), Mildred Marie Hall (District 5). Withdrawn: Jonathan Burruss (District 5, withdrew 02/19/2026), Hajra Kirmani (District 6, withdrew 10/17/2025), Chris Hyser (District 6, withdrew 10/20/2025). Petition candidates the list marks \"Failed to Submit Required Number of Signatures\": Jonathan Burruss (District 5, marked 08/11/2026), Brian S. Jordan (District 5, marked 08/11/2026).","The governor and lieutenant governor are elected together, and the ballot prints each pair together. We list the candidate for governor; the pairs as printed are: Wes Moore and Aruna Miller (Democratic); Dan Cox and Rob Krop (Republican); Andy Ellis and Owen Silverman Andrews (Green); Cathy White and Cathy Permut (Working Class Party).","The candidate list does not mark incumbents. Wes Moore is marked as the incumbent governor because the governor’s official website identifies him as the current governor; no House candidate is marked.","The list gives most campaign websites without http:// or https://, so we link them with https://. Two listed websites did not load when we checked on October 27, 2026, so we do not link them: Scott M. Collier: www.scottcollierforcongress.org (the address could not be found); Sarah Elfreth: www.elfrethformaryland.com (the secure connection failed: invalid security certificate).","Maryland has no U.S. Senate race in 2026, and the certified ballots show no special election for a U.S. House seat."]},{"state":"ME","gaps":["U.S. Senate: Graham C. Platner, the Democratic nominee from the June 9 primary, withdrew on July 10, 2026. The state's withdrawals and replacements list records Troy D. Jackson as the replacement nominee (received July 27, 2026), and only Jackson is printed on the ballot.","The Secretary of State's candidate list shortens party names to 'D' and 'R'. We wrote them out as 'Democratic' and 'Republican', which is how the state's sample ballots print them. We could only check the printed labels on the sample ballots for the Senate race and District 2.","Every federal race has exactly two candidates printed on the ballot. Voters can still rank them, and the state also lists declared write-in candidates for U.S. Senate and District 2, so the count can involve more than two names.","The governor's race uses plurality, not ranked-choice: the state says ranked-choice voting applies only to federal offices in the general election.","The Secretary of State's page dates the general election candidate list July 27, 2026, the deadline for replacement candidates, and its file name says FINAL, but neither the list nor the page says it is certified, and the page notes that replacements may still be added — so we mark it as not certified."]},{"state":"MI","gaps":["The Michigan Department of State's listing calls itself the official candidate listing (this copy shows candidates as of October 27, 2026) but does not say it is certified. The Board of State Canvassers certified the candidates without party affiliation on August 17, 2026 and the August 4 primary nominees on August 24, 2026; minor-party candidates appear as nominated by their party conventions. Because no source calls the whole list certified, this file is marked as not certified.","The listing prints names last name first; we put them first name first (for example \"Barr, Callie\" becomes \"Callie Barr\"). Party labels are as the listing prints them (for example \"Democratic Party\" or \"No Party Affiliation\").","Michigan elects the governor and lieutenant governor together. The listing pairs Jocelyn Benson with Winnie Brinks (Democratic Party), John James with Jay DeBoyer (Republican Party), Anthony Hudson with Beau Parmenter (Libertarian Party), Donna Brandenburg with Robert Donald Cowper II (U.S. Taxpayers Party) and Douglas Campbell with Bobbie Clay (Green Party); this file lists only the candidates for governor.","The listing marks these filers in federal races as disqualified (DISQ), so they are not included: Felix Thibodeau (7th District, Working Class Party); D. Etta Wilcoxon (13th District, Green Party); Shelby Campbell (13th District, No Party Affiliation); Maurice Morton (13th District, No Party Affiliation).","The listing marks incumbents only for judicial offices, so this file does not record incumbency for any candidate."]},{"state":"MN","gaps":["The Secretary of State's candidate filing site (candidates.sos.mn.gov) showed a bot check we could not pass. We took the list instead from the Secretary of State's candidate table for the November 3 election, posted on its election results file server and last updated October 27, 2026. That table does not say it is certified or final.","The November 3 results files on that server currently hold test vote counts. We used only the candidate table, not any vote numbers. We checked each Democratic-Farmer-Labor and Republican nominee against the Secretary of State's August 11, 2026 primary results.","The candidate table gives parties as codes (R, DFL, LIB, IND, GP). We used the party names from the Secretary of State's party table: Republican, Democratic-Farmer-Labor, Libertarian, Independent and Green. We could not check the exact wording printed on the ballot.","Minnesota elects the governor and lieutenant governor as a joint ticket. The ballot lines read 'Steven Young and Jane Kirby', 'Amy Klobuchar and Ben Schierer' and 'Lisa Demuth and Ryan Wilson'; we list only the governor candidate's name.","The candidate table does not mark incumbents, so we set none. Candidates are listed in the order of the state's table."]},{"state":"MO","gaps":["The certification lists no U.S. Senate or governor race; State Auditor is the only statewide office on it.","The certification lists U.S. House districts 1 through 8 but does not say which congressional map they follow. The Secretary of State's 2026 ballot measures page shows a referendum on the 2025 congressional map (Proposition A, House Bill No. 1 of the 2025 Second Extraordinary Session) on the same November 3, 2026 ballot; a \"no\" vote would leave the 2022 boundaries in place. We could not confirm from an official source which district lines govern the November 3 House races.","The certification lists candidates under party headings (Republican, Democratic, Libertarian); no independent candidates are certified for U.S. House."]},{"state":"MS","gaps":["We found no separate certified candidate list on the Secretary of State's elections pages. This file uses the Secretary of State's published sample of the official November 3, 2026 ballot (its file name dates it September 9, 2026), checked against the Secretary of State's candidate qualifying list. Neither document uses the word certified, so certified is false.","Party labels follow the ballot, which prints \"Democrat\"; the qualifying list prints \"Democratic\" for the same candidates."]},{"state":"MT","gaps":["The candidate list prints names in capital letters; we converted them to normal capitalization (for example McCracken), which we could not check against a mixed-case official source.","The candidate list itself does not say it is certified; a Secretary of State news release published September 23, 2026 says ballot certification for the general election was completed in August."]},{"state":"NC","gaps":["The State Board of Elections does not call its candidate lists certified; its Candidate Lists page says the lists are not always final and can change. We used the general-election list by contest generated October 13, 2026, and checked it against the State Board’s candidate spreadsheet updated October 25, 2026. The two agree on every candidate, party and district listed here.","The State Board’s candidate list abbreviates party names (DEM, REP, LIB, GRE). We show each party the way the printed ballot words it, from the official sample ballots the State Board publishes: Democratic Party, Republican Party, Libertarian Party and Green Party. We read 14 of those sample ballots, one for each congressional district and each cited on its race, and every one shows the same names, in the same order, as the State Board’s list.","District 11: the general-election list shows the Republican candidate as Jennifer Capps Balkcom, with a filing date of August 11, 2026, months after the December 2025 filing period. The State Board’s March 3, 2026 primary list showed Chuck Edwards among the Republican candidates, and he is not on the general-election list. The lists do not say why, and we did not find a State Board notice explaining the change.","The list does not mark incumbents, so we do not mark any candidate here as the incumbent.","North Carolina has no governor race in 2026, and the list shows no special election for a U.S. Senate or U.S. House seat on November 3, 2026."]},{"state":"ND","gaps":["The Secretary of State's certified 2026 general election candidate list names the candidates but shows each one's office and party only after a search form is submitted, which we did not do; office and party come from Burleigh County's official general election sample ballot instead. The House seat is elected statewide, so every county's ballot lists the same candidates."]},{"state":"NE","gaps":[]},{"state":"NH","gaps":["The Secretary of State's general election candidate list is titled 'Candidate List w/ Address - 09/17/2026' and does not say it is certified or final. The state's sample ballots for the November 3 election show the same candidates for these races.","The candidate list shortens parties to DEM, REP, LIB, CON and IND. We used the labels the sample ballots print: the Democratic and Republican columns, and 'Libertarian', 'Constitution' and 'Independent' for the other candidates. We checked the sample ballots for Concord Ward 1 (District 2) and Dover Ward 1 (District 1)."]},{"state":"NJ","gaps":["Lana Leguía, a petition candidate listed in District 7 under the label \"Libertarian Party\" on the July 27 certification, was removed by an amended certification dated September 4, 2026, which cites an Appellate Division order finding her ineligible and says her name will not appear on the ballot; she is not listed here.","The official list shows no Republican nominee in District 8.","The two candidates the official list labels INDEPENDENT appear on the ballot with a slogan that varies by county: Ramon Mora Jr. (District 2) uses \"INVEST IN PEOPLE\" in Atlantic, Cape May and Gloucester counties and \"PUT PEOPLE FIRST\" in Cumberland, Ocean and Salem counties; Aristotle Eliopoulos (District 8) uses \"RESULTS NOT RHETORIC\" in Essex, \"PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS\" in Hudson and \"WORKING FAMILIES MATTER\" in Union. Their party label here is the list's Party column.","Party labels for candidates nominated by petition are the official list's Party column as printed; for most of them it matches the list's Slogan column.","The official lists print names in capital letters; mixed-case spellings such as LaMonica R. McIver and Da'Shone Hughey follow the Division of Elections' own candidate email list.","The District 11 seat was filled at a special election on April 16, 2026, so Analilia Mejia is marked as the incumbent; no special election is on the November 3 ballot."]},{"state":"NM","gaps":["The Secretary of State's candidate list does not say whether it is certified; it gives each filer a status, and we included only candidates marked Qualified (independent and minor-party filers for U.S. Senate and governor are marked Disqualified).","The list prints names in capital letters without accent marks; we converted them to normal capitalization and kept the spelling as printed."]},{"state":"NV","gaps":["The Secretary of State's certified statewide list (dated August 25, 2026) blocks scripted downloads, so the file was first built from the Clark and Washoe county election offices' official lists; an independent check then read the state list in a browser and found the same 17 candidates, so it is cited here too.","Party labels are copied as the county lists and sample ballots print them: DEM, REP, IAP and NPP. Nevada law (NRS 293.267) uses NPP for a candidate with no political party; the Secretary of State's certified list spells the parties out as Democratic Party, Republican Party, Independent American Party and No Political Party.","The governor ballot also carries the option \"None of these candidates\", which Nevada offers in statewide races; it is not a candidate and is not listed.","Joseph Lombardo is marked as the incumbent governor: the ballot lists \"Lombardo, Joseph\" (REP) and the Nevada governor's official website identifies the current governor as Joe Lombardo. The county lists do not mark incumbents.","Nevada has no US Senate race on the November 3, 2026 ballot."]},{"state":"NY","gaps":["New York has no U.S. Senate race on the November 3, 2026 ballot; the State Board's certification lists no Senate office and no special congressional election.","The governor and lieutenant governor are elected together on one ticket. This file lists the governor candidates only; the certification pairs Kathy C. Hochul with Adrienne E. Adams and Bruce A. Blakeman with Todd Hood.","Names are spelled exactly as the certification prints them, including \"Nicholas J. Lalota\" (CD 1) and \"Michael J. LiPetri Jr\" without a period (CD 3).","In CD 12, Karen Ortiz runs on an independent ballot line that the certification also names \"Karen Ortiz\"; it is recorded as printed.","The certification does not mark incumbents, so House incumbency is left to be derived separately.","Party lines with no nominee in a race (for example, the Working Families line in CD 1) are left out, because no candidate appears on them."]},{"state":"OH","gaps":["The Secretary of State's certified ballot documents for this election (Directive 2026-45 and its official sample ballot) are on ohiosos.gov behind an interactive security check that we could not pass, so we could not read them. The candidates here come from the Secretary of State's election-night results site, which is already set up for the November 3, 2026 general election (its banner says the vote totals shown come from practice runs). We checked them against ballots, candidate lists and notices from county boards of elections. Every candidate outside the 2nd District also appears in at least one county document, with the one name difference noted below.","certified is false because the results site is not itself a certified list. Several county lists say their candidates are certified; for example, Lorain County's list says the statewide and U.S. Senate candidates were certified by the Secretary of State.","The state results site shows party abbreviations only. Party labels are written the way Ohio ballots print them (Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Other-party candidate, Nonparty candidate), as shown on county sample ballots and notices. For the 2nd District we found no county document, so its labels rest on the state site's D and R abbreviations.","Tracey L. Tackett (4th District) is shown with no party on the state results site and in Union County's notice. We could not confirm whether the ballot prints a designation such as Nonparty candidate under the name. Union County's notice prints the name without the middle initial.","Declared write-in candidates are left out, including Gary Josephson and Samuel Ronan (15th District), Thahbia Asad and Andrey Joseph Martinichin (7th), Kathy McKinstry (9th), three U.S. Senate write-ins and several write-in governor tickets. Franklin County's October 16 list does not flag Josephson as a write-in, but its 46-day notice for the federal write-in absentee ballot and the state results site both do.","In the 1st District, Hamilton County's August 21 list shows the Libertarian nominee John Hancock, Jr. withdrew and Nathan Weise was certified to fill the vacancy; Warren County's October notice and the state results site list Weise."]},{"state":"OK","gaps":["The State Election Board's list of November 2026 elections does not say whether the candidate list is certified.","The list prints names and party labels in capital letters; we converted them to normal capitalization, and could not confirm from an official source how N'Kiyla Jasmine Thomas capitalizes her first name."]},{"state":"OR","gaps":["Oregon's Secretary of State publishes the general-election candidate list inside the official State Voters' Pamphlet (one edition per county group), where it is described as the complete list of federal and state candidates for the November 3, 2026 general election as prepared by the Secretary of State. We did not find a separate standalone document titled as a certification, and the pamphlet list does not say it is certified, so certified is false. The pamphlets were published after the August 28 withdrawal deadline in the Secretary of State's 2026 elections calendar.","We read the list in all 22 English pamphlet editions; the US Senate and governor entries are identical in every edition, and each House district's entries are identical in every edition that covers it. The three editions cited here (Multnomah, Clackamas and Lane counties) together cover all six districts.","Party labels are the nominating parties as the list prints them, in the printed order; a candidate nominated by more than one party shows each party (for example \"Democrat, Working Families\").","The pamphlet list does not mark incumbents. Tina Kotek is marked as the incumbent governor because the Oregon governor's official website identifies her as the current governor."]},{"state":"PA","gaps":["The Department of State's candidate database marks each candidate Approved or Withdrawn but does not say the general-election list is certified or final, so certified is false. Under the state's 2026 calendar the withdrawal and substitution deadlines had passed by September 21.","Names follow the printed county sample ballots where we have them, and each name taken from a ballot cites that ballot; otherwise names are the legal names in the Department of State's candidate database, turned into natural order. The ballots print familiar forms: the 16th District's Republican nominee, George Joseph Kelly Jr. in the database, is printed as Mike Kelly. Some counties print names in capital letters, which we write in normal capitalization, and a name can differ slightly between counties: Pike County prints \"Rob Bresnahan, Jr.\" and Luzerne County \"Rob Bresnahan Jr\", the form used here.","The Green Party ticket for governor (Anthony James Dastra and Craig Joseph Bolton) and the Green Party candidate in the 7th District (Andrew Tupone) are marked Withdrawn, with the reason given as removed from the ballot, so they are not included.","No Republican is listed for the 3rd District. The only candidates there are Chris Rabb (Democratic) and Dennis Mahoney (The Independent Party).","Pennsylvania has no U.S. Senate election in 2026."]},{"state":"RI","gaps":["The Department of State's candidate pages are live tables (current as of October 27, 2026) that mark each candidate 'On Election Ballot' and give a ballot position. They do not say the list is certified or final. We listed candidates in ballot-position order.","The candidate pages print full names in capital letters with no periods after initials. We changed only the capitalization, so names read like 'Raymond T McKay' and 'C D Reynolds'. The printed ballot may use a shorter form of some names, such as a nickname. We could not check a sample ballot because the state's sample ballot lookup needs a voter's address.","District 1: the list prints 'PEDRO JUNIOR SOARES DE SOUZA'. We wrote the surname as 'De Souza', but we could not confirm its exact capitalization.","Governor Daniel J. McKee lost the September 9 Democratic primary, according to the Board of Elections' official primary results, and is not on the general election ballot, so no incumbent governor is running."]},{"state":"SC","gaps":["The State Election Commission’s Candidate Tracking System lists everyone who filed for this election, each with a current status; we list only candidates whose status is \"Active\". The system does not describe the list as certified or final.","U.S. Senate: the list marks Lindsey Graham, the Republican nominee chosen in the June 9 primary, as \"Deceased After Primary\" (status date July 13, 2026). The State Election Commission then held a special Republican filing period and primary to choose a new nominee for the November 3 ballot, and the list shows Darline Graham as the active Republican candidate (status date August 26, 2026). This is the regular election for the seat; the Candidate Tracking System shows no separate special election for it on November 3, 2026.","Two House candidates are marked \"Withdrew\" and are not listed here: Andy Kaplan (Forward Party, District 5, status date September 3, 2026) and Joseph Oddo (Alliance, District 6, status date September 1, 2026). The State Election Commission’s withdrawal policy removes a name from the ballot only when the withdrawal arrives by 5:00 p.m. on the 60th day before the election, which is September 4, 2026 for this election. Both dates are before that deadline, but we have not seen a printed ballot to confirm the names were removed.","Also not listed: Margo Ellis (Alliance, District 1), marked \"Not Certified for General\" (status date August 14, 2026), and Gary Votour (Workers, governor), marked \"Withdrew After Primary\" (status date June 29, 2026).","The governor and lieutenant governor are elected together. We list the candidate for governor; the running mates, as the list shows them, are: Michael Addison with Candace Brewer (United Citizens); Walid Hakim with Arnold E Karr (Green); Jermaine Johnson with Sam Skardon (Democratic); Alan Wilson with Mike Reichenbach (Republican).","The list does not mark incumbents, so we do not mark any candidate here as the incumbent.","An independent second check confirmed most South Carolina candidates against county election offices' lists, but could not re-open the State Election Commission's candidate search, which only shows results after a search form is submitted. These candidates rest on that search alone so far: Dayna Alane Smith (District 2), Wes Climer (District 5), and Russell Fry and John Gregory Vincent (District 7)."]},{"state":"SD","gaps":["The Secretary of State's candidate list does not say whether it is certified; it notes that candidates are added once their filing paperwork is received.","The Democratic U.S. Senate nominee, Julian Beaudion, is marked withdrawn on August 4, 2026 and the list shows no replacement; the Secretary of State's withdrawal page quotes the state law that keeps a withdrawn nominee's name off the ballot, so we left him out."]},{"state":"TN","gaps":["The Secretary of State's candidate lists for the November 3, 2026 general election (PDF and Excel files dated September 3, 2026) do not say whether the lists are certified or final, so certified is false.","The lists do not mark incumbents, so no candidate is flagged as the incumbent."]},{"state":"TX","gaps":["The Secretary of State's certification prints each candidate's party as a code (REP, DEM, LIB, GRE, IND). Our party labels use the matching column headings printed on the Secretary of State's 2026 sample ballot: Republican Party, Democratic Party, Libertarian Party, Green Party and Independent.","The certification prints names in capital letters, and we converted them to normal capitalization. The U.S. Senate and governor names match the mixed-case spellings on the state's sample ballot, but we could not check the exact capitalization of House candidates' names (for example Dashaun, McDonough, McMenemy or De La Cruz) against an official mixed-case list."]},{"state":"UT","gaps":[]},{"state":"VA","gaps":["The Department of Elections posts these as candidate lists that it keeps updated (the federal offices list was last updated October 6, 2026, and the all-offices list October 9, 2026); neither list calls itself certified or final. The two lists agree on every federal candidate, party, district and incumbent mark.","Incumbents are marked as the list marks them, in its \"Incumbent\" column.","The list gives most campaign websites without http:// or https://, so we link them with https://. Three listed websites did not load when we checked on October 27, 2026, so we do not link them: Alaha Ahrar: alahaahrarforcongress.com (the address could not be found); Tim S. Sharman: www.timsharmanforcongress.com (the secure connection failed); Joshua E. Ertle: www.joshua.vote (the site’s security certificate had expired).","Virginia has no governor race in 2026, and no U.S. Senate or U.S. House seat has a special election on the November 3, 2026 lists (the special elections on the lists are for state and local offices)."]},{"state":"VT","gaps":["The Secretary of State's 2026 General Election Candidate Listing (last updated September 23, 2026) does not say it is certified or final. It was updated after the state's August 21 withdrawal deadline, and the state mailed general election ballots to voters on October 7, 2026.","The listing prints names and parties in capital letters. We changed them to normal capitalization.","Amanda Janoo's party is printed as 'DEM/PROG'. We read this as two nominations, Democratic and Progressive, in that order.","Vermont has no U.S. Senate race in 2026."]},{"state":"WA","gaps":["Washington has no US Senate or governor race on the November 3, 2026 ballot; the certification lists only the ten US House races among the offices we track, and none is a special election.","The certification prints each candidate's stated party preference (for example \"Prefers Democratic Party\"); under Washington's top-two system this is the candidate's own stated preference, not a party nomination. The list does not mark incumbents.","The certification is a scanned document with no text layer; we transcribed the congressional entries from the page images and checked each name against the scan."]},{"state":"WI","gaps":["Wisconsin elects the governor and lieutenant governor as a joint ticket. The ballot lines read 'Tom Tiffany / David Varnam' and 'David Crowley / Sarah Godlewski'; we list only the governor candidate's name.","District 2 has only one candidate on the ballot: Mark Pocan.","Incumbency comes from the 'Incumbent' line the Commission prints above each office. For District 4 it names 'Gwen S. Moore', the same person whose ballot name is 'Gwen Moore'. The District 7 incumbent, Tom Tiffany, is running for governor, and Governor Tony Evers filed a notice that he would not run again.","The Commission's 'Candidates on Ballot by Election' list does not itself use the word 'certified', so certified is false. The Commission's calendar sets August 25, 2026 as the day it sends its certification of general election candidates to county clerks, and this list was printed that day. The Commission's newer 'All Contests and Candidates' spreadsheet (October 6, 2026) shows the same candidates for these races.","One column of the Commission's spreadsheet spells the District 8 incumbent's last name 'Weid'. Its ballot-name column and the August 25 list both say 'Tony Wied', which we used."]},{"state":"WV","gaps":["The Secretary of State's online listing of regular candidates for the 11/03/2026 general election does not say whether it is the certified list, so certified is false. The office's 2026 elections calendar says the Secretary of State sends the certified list of general-election candidates to county clerks by August 24, 2026.","The listing prints party names in capital letters (REPUBLICAN, DEMOCRAT, CONSTITUTION). They are written here in normal case, keeping the listing's wording, which is Democrat rather than Democratic.","Candidates on the listing's separate write-in tab are left out.","West Virginia has no governor election in 2026."]},{"state":"WY","gaps":["The Secretary of State's 2026 General Election Candidate Roster (dated September 9, 2026) does not say whether the list is certified."]}]},{"id":"federal-campaign-finance","label":"Federal campaign finance","scope":"Each federal candidate's FEC financial summary for the 2025–2026 cycle, and the independent expenditures reported for or against them.","coverage":"full","tiers":["official"],"upstreams":["fec-bulk"],"note":null,"endpoints":["/api/v1/candidates/{id}"]},{"id":"state-campaign-finance","label":"State campaign finance","scope":"Money raised and spent in governor races.","coverage":"none","tiers":[],"upstreams":[],"note":"Each governor page links that state's own campaign-finance search; nothing from it is imported.","endpoints":[]},{"id":"members-of-congress","label":"Members of Congress","scope":"Everyone serving in Congress now, and the past service of every 2026 candidate who has served: terms, parties, districts, official websites and accounts.","coverage":"full","tiers":["aggregated"],"upstreams":["congress-legislators"],"note":null,"endpoints":["/api/v1/candidates/{id}"]},{"id":"federal-bills","label":"Bills in Congress","scope":"A selection of House and Senate bills and joint resolutions from the 118th and 119th Congresses, chosen by the published rules in DECISIONS.md: titles, status, sponsors, cosponsors, subjects and actions.","coverage":"partial","tiers":["official"],"upstreams":["govinfo-billstatus"],"note":null,"endpoints":["/api/v1/bills","/api/v1/bills/{id}"]},{"id":"roll-call-votes","label":"Roll call votes","scope":"The chamber's outcome of each House and Senate roll call on the selected bills.","coverage":"partial","tiers":["aggregated"],"upstreams":["voteview"],"note":"Party breakdowns and members' individual votes are not published at this time.","endpoints":["/api/v1/votes"]},{"id":"financial-disclosures","label":"Financial disclosures","scope":"Financial disclosure and periodic transaction reports filed with the House by members and candidates, 2024–2026.","coverage":"partial","tiers":["official"],"upstreams":["house-clerk-disclosures"],"note":"Senate filings aren't imported; Senate candidates' pages link the Senate's own search.","endpoints":["/api/v1/candidates/{id}"]},{"id":"issues-and-positions","label":"Issues and stated positions","scope":"Neutrally named issues with their range of views, and candidates' stated positions on them.","coverage":"partial","tiers":["supercitizen"],"upstreams":[],"note":"Written by SuperCitizen (AI-drafted, sentence by sentence, from cited sources, and labeled as such). 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