State · November 3, 2026

Kentucky

7 races for U.S. Senate, U.S. House and governor, from the state's official list of candidates.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

§1Statewide races

Why this matters: Every voter in Kentucky votes in these races.

U.S. Senate · Kentucky

3 on the ballot · open seat

§2U.S. House

Why this matters: You vote only in the House district where you live. Not sure which one? Use the address search above.

  • District 1
    James R. Comer (Republican Party) · John "Drew" Williams (Democratic Party)
  • District 2
    S. Brett Guthrie (Republican Party) · Megan Wingfield (Democratic Party) · Thomas A. Loecken (Independent)
  • District 3
    Maria Teresa Rodriguez (Republican Party) · Morgan McGarvey (Democratic Party)
  • District 4open seat
    Ed Gallrein (Republican Party) · Melissa Claire Strange (Democratic Party) · Jeremy Todd (Libertarian Party)
  • District 5
    Hal Rogers (Republican Party) · Ned Pillersdorf (Democratic Party) · Mikel Wein (Independent) · Gerardo Serrano (Independent)
  • District 6open seat
    Ralph Alvarado (Republican Party) · Zach Dembo (Democratic Party) · Jay J Bowman (Independent) · Pete Lynch (Kentucky Party)

§3Notes on the official list

  • 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  • Mohammad Wael Ahmad (Kentucky Party, District 4) is listed by the Secretary of State as withdrawn on August 10, 2026, and does not appear on the District 4 county sample ballots we checked (Campbell, Kenton, Boone), so he is excluded.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).