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What is on the ballot, and who is paying for it.

435 House seats and 35 Senate seats are contested in 2026. Committees that are not those campaigns have reported $875,049,589 spent for and against the candidates in 247 of them.

Figures come from FEC filings and each state’s certified candidate lists.

Where the outside money went

Independent expenditures are reported to the Federal Election Commission by the committee that spent them, which also ticks whether the money was spent for a candidate or against one. That ticked flag is what puts each bar on its side. 568 committees filed across every race.

Every race below is a federal one. The Commission collects these filings for candidates for federal office, so spending on a governor’s race is filed with that state instead and cannot be ranked here — an absence from this list is the reach of the source and not a quiet race.

  1. Michigan — U.S. Senate$86.4M$30.5M against · $55.9M for · 39 committees
  2. Texas — U.S. Senate$65.2M$51.0M against · $14.2M for · 33 committees
  3. Kentucky — U.S. Senate$46.2M$19.7M against · $26.5M for · 20 committees
  4. New York 12th district$41.2M$11.2M against · $30.0M for · 7 committees
  5. South Carolina — U.S. Senate$26.8M$12.8M against · $14.0M for · 20 committees
  6. Kentucky 4th district$26.3M$17.1M against · $9.1M for · 11 committees
  7. Maine — U.S. Senate$26.3M$22.6M against · $3.6M for · 15 committees
  8. Illinois — U.S. Senate$24.5M$13.7M against · $10.8M for · 9 committees
  9. Alabama — U.S. Senate$22.5M$3.0M against · $19.5M for · 12 committees
  10. Minnesota — U.S. Senate$21.0M$9.6M against · $11.4M for · 15 committees
  11. Iowa — U.S. Senate$19.2M$6.0M against · $13.2M for · 10 committees
  12. North Carolina — U.S. Senate$18.2M$12.9M against · $5.3M for · 14 committees

Spending as filed with the FEC, excluding filings superseded by an amendment, repeated transaction ids, and money dated outside this cycle. How this is read.

What each race carries

156

races with published public polls, shown as an average of what the pollsters reported

247

races with outside money on file, for and against, by the committee that spent it

The Senate, race by race

35 Senate contests in 2026 — every regular Class 2 seat and the specials. Candidate lists come from each state’s certified filings; a card notes when a state has not published one yet.

The House, state by state

Every district on the 2026 ballot, one state at a time: the certified candidates, the polling average where one exists, and the outside money filed so far.

How the fields were chosen

Every certified field above is the output of a primary. These are the most recent, as each state counted them — the same record one step earlier.

  1. Oklahoma — U.S. SenateN’Kiyla Thomas (DEM) 61.2
  2. Florida — U.S. SenateAshley Moody (REP) 79.6 Angie Nixon (DEM) 56.1
  3. Florida 1st districtJimmy Patronis (REP) 71.1
  4. Florida 2nd districtAustin Rogers (REP) 30.5 Amanda Marie Green (DEM) 33.5
  5. Florida 3rd districtSeth Harp (DEM) 45.2
  6. Florida 4th districtLaShonda L.J. Holloway (DEM) 57.3

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Every seat carries its own contest: who is on the ballot, the certified primary result, what the polls say, and the money spent on it. Search a state or a district code from the bar above, or start from the map.

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