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The 2026 midterm elections

Every seat in the House and a third of the Senate are on the ballot. This page lists the races, who has filed with the Federal Election Commission to run in each, and — for anyone who has served in Congress — what their recorded votes actually say about where they stand.

Tuesday, November 3, 2026 · 33 days away · 437 House seats · 35 Senate seats (2 of them special elections) · 52 states and territories

How a member is placed, left to right

Every member of Congress is placed on a scale for each of 12 values, using 130 hand-picked roll-call votes. The left end of each scale is the side most Democrats took on those votes and the right end the side most Republicans took, counted from the roll calls themselves. A member's position is the share of the votes they cast on the Republican side, from 0 to 100, and their overall position is the average of their value positions, each value counted once.

A value with fewer than 4 of a member's votes is still drawn, marked as thin, but left out of their overall position, which needs at least 3 values with 4 or more. Candidates who have never held federal office have no position, and this site will not invent one. Nothing here is inferred from a party label, endorsements or who funds them — only from votes they personally cast.

Read the full method, and every vote behind it.

Every member, left to right, with their position →

Where Congress sits

Every sitting member's overall position, counted into columns ten points wide. Most members vote with their own party on nearly every one of these votes, so most of each chamber sits in the two end columns; the few columns between them are the members who cross over. Hover a column for who is in it.

Senate · 98 of 100 sitting members placed
  • Democrats
  • Independents
  • Republicans

The average Senate Democrat sits at 2, the average Senate Republican at 97. Nearest the middle, outside the two end columns: Susan M. Collins (R-ME, 60), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK, 69), Josh Hawley (R-MO, 87), Charles E. Schumer (D-NY, 10).

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House · 355 of 437 sitting members placed
  • Democrats
  • Independents
  • Republicans

The average House Democrat sits at 2, the average House Republican at 98. Nearest the middle, outside the two end columns: Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA-1, 48), Jared F. Golden (D-ME-2, 46), Donald G. Davis (D-NC-1, 36), Henry Cuellar (D-TX-28, 35), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA-3, 35).

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Races by state

4,284 people have filed with the FEC across 51 states and territories.

The rest of the ballot

Congress is a few dozen names. A voter is handed everything else as well — statewide executives, the state legislature, the school board, every court, and the county offices. Where a state certifies that list in a form this site can read, the whole of it is here.

One state so far. Every state certifies its ballot in its own format — Texas signs a 1,400-page PDF — and there is no national source to fall back on, so each one needs its own reader.

Races are derived from the districting plan in force and from when each sitting senator's term ends. Candidate lists come from FEC filings, which are not the same as the ballot: filing is federal, ballot access is set by each state, and people appear on one list without the other in both directions.