The November ballot
Raised so far, filed with the FEC
Also certified, by write-in: William McVay and Travis Jack Stevens.
Official candidate list: Delaware Department of Elections. Faces and bars are the campaigns that hold the seat or have $25,000 raised or outside spending on file; being outside that group is a filing fact, not a mark. A candidate marked write-in is certified to run and their votes count; their name is not printed on the ballot. Not a prediction.
The seat
Chris Coons
Democrat · Holds the seat now
First took office 2010 · Age 63
From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.
How to vote in Delaware
- General electionNovember 3, 2026
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How they won the primary
The primary · 87,392 votes
- Chris Coons Won: 78.0% 68,154
- Jeff Appelhans: 10.6% 9,294
- Mary Louve: 7.5% 6,577
- Eric No-Trump Hansen: 3.9% 3,367
The primary · 39,948 votes
- Michael Katz Won: 77.3% 30,896
- John Shulli: 22.7% 9,052
Primary results as recorded October 12, 2026, ordered by votes. Source: Delaware Department of Elections official primary results data. Certified September 18, 2026. A primary result is a recorded fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.
The money on this race
- Raised by candidates
- $7.2M
- Outside money
- $243K
Outside money, for and against
Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing. No outside money is on file for or against the other 2 names on this ballot.
Where each candidate's money comes from
Small donors give $200 or less; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.
Other includes money transferred in from committees the candidate authorized, such as a joint fundraising committee, which reports its own donors to the FEC: Chris Coons $728K.
Who is spending on this race
The largest groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.
Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.
Also filed for this seat
8 filedNot on the November ballot
- Jeff AppelhansDemocrat$1.5K
- Christopher BeardsleyDemocrat$22K
- Alec CoppolaRepublican-
- No-Trump HansenDemocrat-
- Eric HansenDemocrat-
Primary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.
Ballot status not confirmed
None of these has campaign money on file with the FEC.
Filed with the FEC for this seat. No source on record says whether they qualified for the November ballot: independent and minor-party candidates qualify through the state, often by petition, and the FEC does not track whether they did.
How this seat voted last time
D+22 in 2020
- Chris Coons Won: 59.4%
- Lauren Witzke: 37.9%
490,935 votes for candidates. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 2.7%. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.
Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.
Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are each campaign's latest FEC report, ending between January 9, 2025 and August 26, 2026. Outside money is the FEC's processed total of independent expenditures plus the 24- and 48-hour reports filed since each group's latest regular report. It covers each candidate's own campaign: the years since their previous federal election, up to the six their totals cover. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.