Certified 2026 general-election nominees

Methodology

A row is a person printed on a state secretary of state or election-office document that certifies the November 3, 2026 general-election ballot, or on that office's official nominee list. Certified write-ins on those documents are included. Party is the party printed on the document. A blank party means the document did not print one. Joint tickets stay as printed and are not split into separate people.

Withdrawn, disqualified, retention-question, and runoff rows are left out. Governor rows come from the reviewed certified governor roster. U.S. Senate and U.S. House rows come from the official ballot lists. When the governor roster already covers a state, the ballot-list copy of that governor race is not repeated.

Some governor rows cite a county sample ballot or a local election notice rather than a statewide certificate. The source URL on the row is the document that was staged. The source document date is the publication date stored with that ballot list. It is blank when the staged governor row has no stored document date.

OppIntell rebuilds this dataset when a new official list is staged. It is not a live scrape of election websites. The as-of date is the latest retrieval timestamp among the included rows. An office that is not on the 2026 calendar for that state is marked “no 2026 election”. An office that is on the calendar, but whose official list is not staged, is marked “not yet certified / not in dataset”. Nothing on this page fills those gaps with a guess.

A state race hub is linked only when this dataset has rows for that office and the hub passes the same index gate as the public race page. An OppIntell profile is linked only when that profile passes the public index gate. A missing link means the page is not in the public index, not that the person is missing from the official list.

License

This dataset is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Attribution: OppIntell. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

How to cite

OppIntell. “Certified 2026 general-election nominees.” OppIntell, retrieved October 17, 2026. https://oppintell.com/data/2026-certified-nominees.

Summary by state

Counts are people in this dataset. A hub link opens the state race page when that page is indexable.

Nominees

The same rows are in the CSV and JSON downloads. Profile links appear only when the public profile passes the index gate.

Questions about this dataset: contact OppIntell.