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Elections · U.S. House, District 12 · New York

Caroline Shinkle

Republican On the November ballot

Raised for this seat

$155K

Through June 30, 2026

Cash on hand

$84K

Through June 30, 2026

On the November ballot

Shinkle faces Micah Lasher for this seat on November 3, 2026.

Micah LasherDemocrat · $3.3MCaroline Shinklethis pageRepublican · $155K

The ballot as filed by the nominee source, recorded August 27, 2026, not a prediction. Minor-party and write-in filers are on the race page.

The whole race

Where the money comes from

15%from small donors
Small donors
15%$24K
Large donors
66%$103K
PACs
1%$2K
Party
--
Self-funding
17%$26K
Other
<1%$49

Receipts reported through June 30, 2026. Source: FEC.

How to vote in New York

  • General electionNovember 3, 2026In 10 weeks

Register 10 days before the election. Same-day registration is available only during the early-voting period.

All dates and rules

The district they want to represent

People
720K
Median household income
$148K
Unemployment
5.4%
Living below the poverty line
9.5%
Without health insurance
2.7%

U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate.

Against the field for this seat

Each campaign's reported receipts on one shared scale, in ballot order, not money order.

Muted rows are campaigns not on the November ballot; their money is still their own filed record. Showing 7 of 17 funded campaigns; every filing is on the race page.

The whole race

In their own words

What Shinkle's campaign says it would work on.

The priorities Shinkle's own campaign site lists, quoted as written there. They are what the campaign says. Nobody has voted on them.

  • Economic Empowerment
  • Education Excellence
  • Crime Reduction
  • Foreign Policy Focus

Quoted from carolinefornewyork.com, read August 14, 2026. A campaign site changes; this is what it said on that date. Curia quotes these and does not check, rate or rank them.

Record in office

Shinkle has not held this office, so there is no federal voting record, no cosponsorships and no committee service to report.

That absence is not a position for or against anything; it is what a first federal campaign looks like in the public record.

Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Portrait: Campaign photo, campaign website (reference use, candidate's own published headshot). Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.