2026 cycle · 180 days to election

Scoreboards. Read the field.

Total candidates
2,344
On file with the FEC for 2026.
Senate seats up
33
Class 2 on the ballot.
Retiring
67
Confirmed not seeking re-election.
Senate races

Most contested

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Sitting senators with the most declared challengers this cycle.

House races

Most contested

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Sitting House members with the most declared challengers.

At-risk incumbents

Most vulnerable

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Composite vulnerability index (0–100) — money, consistency, ethics, and news pressure. Higher = more vulnerable. Seats up this cycle.

Top fundraisers

Money leaders

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Top 5 candidates by total raised this cycle.

Said vs done

Alignment distribution

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Distribution of 14 statement-vs-vote alignment scores (0–100). Lower = bigger gap between what a rep said and how they voted.

050100
Mean 82/100 across 14 pairs
Lowest scorers
Newsmakers · 30d

Most-mentioned reps

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Reps with the most news coverage from a curated outlet list in the last 30 days.

States · total raised

Money concentration

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Total candidate fundraising by state. Brighter tiles = more money raised in that state.

Sources: FEC candidate + committee filings (cycle 2026); @unitedstates/congress-legislators for the active roster; consistency_pairs from press-release vs vote alignment scoring; news_mentions from GDELT 2.0 filtered to a curated outlet list; manually-curated retirement flag for announced not-running cases the FEC doesn't encode. Numbers refresh hourly.