400 Certified 2026 Nominees, 26 Official Sources: OppIntell Releases Open Ballot Reference Ahead of November 3

Charleston, S.C., October 29, 2026 — OppIntell and its founder, Lucas Dollarhite, today published a free, source-linked dataset of 400 people certified for the November 3, 2026 general-election ballot for governor (55), U.S. Senate (33) and U.S. House (312) in 23 states, each linked to one of 26 official election-office documents, including ones from the Texas Secretary of State, the New York State Board of Elections and the North Carolina State Board of Elections. On October 28, 2026, OppIntell added candidate profile links to the dataset, raising the number of rows that link to an OppIntell candidate profile from 0 to 294 of the 400. The dataset is free to download as CSV or JSON under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license at oppintell.com/data/2026-certified-nominees.

The largest state sets are Texas (100 people, from two Texas Secretary of State ballot certifications dated August 28, 2026), New York (61, from the New York State Board of Elections ballot certification of October 7, 2026), North Carolina (42, from the North Carolina State Board of Elections candidate list dated October 13, 2026) and New Jersey (36, from two New Jersey Division of Elections documents). Eleven states have every 2026 governor, U.S. Senate and U.S. House contest on their calendar covered: Delaware, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Twelve more states are partly covered, and the other 27 states have no rows yet. Dated source documents range from July 27, 2026 to October 17, 2026, and the dataset's most recent retrieval was October 17, 2026. Where an office is on a state's 2026 calendar but its official list hasn't been staged, the dataset says so ("not yet certified / not in dataset") and doesn't estimate. Offices with no 2026 election in a state are marked "no 2026 election."

"Voters, reporters, and campaigns of every party deserve the same starting point: the official ballot record. We built this reference so anyone can trace each name back to its source, and we're releasing it openly so it can be checked, cited, and reused," said Lucas Dollarhite, founder of OppIntell.

How the dataset is built

- Primary documents only. A row is included only if the person appears on a state secretary of state or election-office document certifying the November 3, 2026 general-election ballot, or on that office's official nominee list. Certified write-ins on those documents are included.

- Printed as published. Party is the party printed on the document. A blank means the document printed none. Joint tickets stay as printed.

- Exclusions. Withdrawn, disqualified, retention-question, and runoff rows are left out.

- Not a live scrape. OppIntell rebuilds the dataset when a new official list is staged. The "as of" date is the latest retrieval timestamp among the included rows.

- Citable. Suggested citation: OppIntell. "Certified 2026 general-election nominees." OppIntell, retrieved [DATE]. https://oppintell.com/data/2026-certified-nominees

About OppIntell

OppIntell builds opposition research software for campaigns, committees, and consultants, with every public claim tied to a public-record source. Candidate profiles collect votes, quotes, filings, and contradiction flags, and each item links to the public record it came from. Every candidate gets the same profile regardless of party. Sources include FEC filings and Secretary of State candidate filings. OppIntell was founded in South Carolina. Learn more at https://oppintell.com.