What’s on the ballot on Nov. 3: Congress, 36 governors and most state legislatures

Tuesday, Nov. 3, is a midterm election. There is no presidential race on the ballot, but voters across the country will choose the next Congress, most governors and the majority of state legislators who write state budgets and election laws.

Congress

All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are up. House members serve two-year terms, so the entire chamber is elected every even year. The House directory lists the current members by state and district.

Thirty-five Senate seats are on the ballot, according to Ballotpedia. Thirty-three are regularly scheduled races for full six-year terms, for the seats the Senate lists as Class II, whose terms end Jan. 3, 2027. The other two are special elections to fill the rest of terms that became vacant: in Florida, for the seat Marco Rubio left to become secretary of state, and in Ohio, for the seat JD Vance left to become vice president.

Governors

Thirty-six states elect a governor this year. In 26 of them, voters will choose both a governor and a U.S. senator on the same ballot, Ballotpedia reports.

State legislatures

About 6,139 of the 7,386 state legislative seats in the country, or 83%, are up for election, in 88 of the 99 legislative chambers across 46 states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia hold no legislative elections this year because they elect their legislators in odd-numbered years.

Ballot measures and local races

Voters in many states will also decide statewide ballot measures. Ballotpedia counts 145 statewide measures on the Nov. 3 ballot, out of 164 certified for 2026 in 40 states. Its page does not give an as-of date, so the final number may differ.

Below the statewide races, ballots include county, city and school board offices, judges and local measures. Those differ from one address to the next.

What we could not confirm

Several states redrew their congressional district maps in 2025 and 2026, so some voters may live in a different House district than in 2024. We have not yet confirmed each state’s current map against official state sources, so we are not listing those states here. Your state election office can tell you which district you live in.

How to see your own ballot

The offices and measures on your ballot depend on where you are registered. Vote.gov links to every state’s election office, where most states let voters look up a sample ballot, check their registration and find their polling place.