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Governor's Chairs, Senate, and House Seats
up for Election on 3 November 2026
with only one major party candidate

Governor's Chairs, Senate and House Seats...
Open (incumbent not running for re-election)
No incumbent running
Uncontested (one candidate running)
Multiple incumbents running
Only One Major Party Candidate

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This table is updated after each state completes its nominating process. Currently, 22 jurisdictions have completed their nominating processes: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Texas, West Virginia.

'Offices with Only One Major Party Candidate' - for purposes of this listing- are deemed to be those election contests in which there is only one major party candidate (reference The Classification of Political parties listed on TheGreenPapers.com) running for a given office on the ballot. Candidates of a Major Party who might be running as write-in or balloted as a minor party candidate (a party other than ) are not counted as having been formally nominated as Major Party candidates in this tabulation.

Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

 
OfficeCandidates with
Some Third Party
and/or Independent
balloted opposition		Total
CongressmanDemocratic22
Totals22
 

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

2026 General Election Outline

Modified .