Candidate · November 3, 2026
Helene Neville
On the ballot for U.S. House · North Dakota's At-Large District
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§1On the ballot
Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.
| Office | U.S. House · North Dakota's At-Large District1 |
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| Party on the ballot | independent nomination1, |
| Status | Challenger |
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§2Who they are
Why this matters: Background and experience help you judge how someone might do the job. These come from public records and the candidate's own materials.
Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.
Her campaign website says Helene Neville spent more than 42 years working as a nurse in eight states, in settings that include hospitals and clinics, rural and tribal health care, correctional facilities and public health programs.3 It says she graduated from the Iowa Western School of Nursing in 1984.4 Her professional summary lists ten years, from 1993 to 2003, at the Iowa Department of Public Health as a community health consultant and environmental health educator.5 It also lists her as the founder of the Des Moines Marathon, a company she sold in 2005.5
Why they say they're running
Her campaign website says she is running because she believes working people should be represented by someone with real experience of service, sacrifice and resilience.6 It says she is running as an independent to work across party lines on practical solutions and to be accountable to the people rather than to party leaders or special interests.6,
Websites and accounts
- Campaign websiteheleneforcongress.com8,
9 - Facebookfacebook.com/people/Helene-For-Congress/615869874173409
§3What they've said on the issues
Why this matters: These are positions the candidate has stated publicly — on their campaign website or in public statements — summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Issues they haven't spoken about publicly are left out.
Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.
Each issue has its own range of views. A position is marked on that range only when the candidate's own statement clearly matches one option; there is no overall left–right score.
Family and Social Policy
Her campaign website calls for policies that make child care more available and affordable, support providers and invest in early childhood education.10
Her campaign website says SNAP and similar programs help families through hard stretches and support grocery stores and rural economies, and that rural communities often feel it first when such programs are weakened.11
Energy and Climate
Her campaign website says that as electricity demand grows, including from possible data centers, planning for large projects should be transparent and include community input, with attention to farmland, water and local infrastructure, and that residential customers, family farms and small businesses should not be made to bear higher costs as a result.6,
Her campaign website's political platform lists nuclear transparency and safety among its agriculture, energy and rural strength items.6
Education
Her campaign website says she is against removing or hiding parts of history, and names book bans as one way that happens.7
Her campaign website says she backs rules that keep women's competitive sports fair and safe while respecting every athlete, and that sports governing bodies should write evidence-based policies that weigh inclusion, fairness and safety.6
Health Care
Her campaign website says she supports improving access to care, affordability and prevention, protecting people with pre-existing conditions, strengthening rural health care, enforcing antitrust law against health care consolidation, and making health care prices more transparent.13
Her campaign website says protecting Medicare and Medicaid matters, citing federal cuts to Medicaid funding that it says could cost millions of people their coverage and put rural hospitals at risk.14
Housing
Her campaign website says housing policy should focus on expanding housing supply and supporting responsible, affordable development.15
Immigration
Her campaign website lists stability for people who came to the country as children, such as through DACA, as part of the comprehensive immigration reform she supports.16
Her campaign website lists creating more lawful routes to immigrate for workers and families as part of the comprehensive immigration reform she supports.16
Her campaign website lists maintaining a humane asylum system, consistent with American values, as part of the immigration reform she supports.16
Her campaign website lists maintaining a humane refugee system, consistent with American values, as part of the immigration reform she supports.16
Elections and Government Reform
Her campaign website says the country needs a more transparent and fair campaign finance system, saying voters have a right to know who funds campaigns and raising concerns about outside spending since the Citizens United decision.17
Her campaign website's political platform lists pausing all stock trading by elected officials and their extended families.6
Her campaign website's political platform lists term limits and age limits.6
Social Security and Medicare
Her campaign website says Social Security should be defended and enhanced, and that she backs changes that keep current retirees' benefits safe, shore up the program's long-term funding and have the wealthiest Americans pay a fair share.18
Abortion and Reproductive Health
Her campaign website says she advocates protecting reproductive freedom, including the right of people to decide about their own bodies and medical care, and that the government should not come between a patient and their doctor.19
Her campaign website says reproductive health care covers far more than abortion, listing contraception and family planning among the services.19
Tribal Nations, Territories and DC
Her campaign website says tribal sovereignty rests on treaties and federal law, which recognize tribal governments' authority to govern their communities and manage their lands, and says she would support policies that uphold treaty obligations.20
Infrastructure and Transportation
Her campaign website lists repairing roads and bridges and the wider transportation network, and improving transportation efficiency, among its infrastructure priorities.21
Economy, Jobs and Trade
Her campaign website's political platform lists raising and indexing the minimum wage.6
Taxes and Budget
Her campaign website's political platform lists taxing corporate gains.6
Crime, Policing and Prisons
Her campaign website says she supports reviewing North Dakota's medical cannabis program to reduce barriers for patients, and calls for an evidence-based national conversation about cannabis policy.6
Technology, Privacy and AI
Her campaign website says North Dakota's remaining broadband needs are mostly about closing coverage gaps and improving affordability and reliability, and says broadband supports telehealth, agriculture and business.6
§4Financial disclosures
Why this matters: Federal candidates and members of Congress must report their assets, income, debts and outside jobs, and members must report stock trades. These filings show possible conflicts of interest.
- Candidate financial disclosure report22filed May 15, 2026