Sample Ballot Lookup

Be an informed voter.

View the elections you will be voting in with this sample ballot lookup tool.

Here's how it works:

Enter your address. Enter your email if you would like to receive Ballotpedia's election news updates in your inbox. You can unsubscribe at any time and we will never share your information.

Select an upcoming election date, if there is more than one coming up in your area.

View the list of candidates that will be on your ballot. Ballotpedia includes comprehensive election information for the largest 100 cities by population, as well as all state legislative, statewide, and congressional races across the nation. Our coverage scope for local elections continues to grow, and you can use this tool to see what local elections we are covering in your area. You can also contact your state or local election administrator for an official sample ballot.

Click on your candidates to read their biography, view past election results, read their campaign themes and responses to our candidate survey, and more. We also provide race overviews if you want additional background information. Where the office names are linked, you can click to learn more about the race in general.

This sample ballot tool includes: All candidates in every upcoming election occurring within the 100 most-populated cities in the U.S., plus all federal, statewide, and territorial elections, including ballot measures, nationwide. Please note that Ballotpedia's election coverage does not encompass all local offices. Election information is not published in a timely manner for many local offices, which makes it infeasible to gather the necessary data given our limited resources. However, Ballotpedia's coverage scope for local elections continues to grow. Tribal elections are not included.

Thank you for using Ballotpedia's sample ballot tool. We test the tool on an ongoing basis for accuracy. The note below discusses how we do that, and how you can help. (Click here to read about the Eight Quality Benchmarks for a Sample Ballot Lookup Tool.)

Questions? Sample Ballot Frequently Asked Questions

Click here to read more about our testing methodology

Ballotpedia regularly tests our sample ballot's accuracy by looking up addresses on both it and the official sample ballot and comparing the lookup results from both tools. We strive for our sample ballot tool to be 100% accurate. This means that, for offices within our coverage scope, a person's sample ballot results should include every election that will appear on their actual ballot. It should also include every candidate running in those elections, except write-ins. Finally, it should not contain errors such as misspelled names, inaccurate incumbency labels, or incorrect political party affiliations.

If you are a user of our Sample Ballot, and you are experiencing problems using it or notice any accuracy issue of any kind at all, it would be a huge help to our future readers and users if you would send us a note telling us about the problem. Send the note to: editor@ballotpedia.org.

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