The November ballot
Raised so far, filed with the FEC
Also in this race: Robin Richards (Nebraska Working People) and Chuck Conboy (America First).
Final candidate list: Nebraska Secretary of State; Secretary Evnen statement accepting Cindy Burbank's declination and confirming her name will not appear. 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. Not a prediction.
The seat
Pete Ricketts
Republican · Holds the seat now
First took office 2023 · Age 62
From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.
How to vote in Nebraska
- General electionNovember 3, 2026
Register 18 days before online or by mail, or 11 days before in person.
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How they won the primary
The primary · 123,073 votes
- Cindy Burbank Won: 89.5% 110,210
- William Forbes: 10.5% 12,863
The primary · 197,074 votes
- Pete Ricketts Won: 81.5% 160,547
- Todd Knobel: 8.1% 15,921
- Debb Axtell Schultz: 6.0% 11,735
- Mac Stevens: 2.6% 5,204
- Eric Mortimore: 1.9% 3,667
Primary results as recorded September 24, 2026, ordered by votes. Source: Nebraska Secretary of State statewide primary results portal. A primary result is a recorded fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.
The money on this race
- Raised by candidates
- $17M
- Outside money
- $24M
Outside money, for and against
Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing. The other $494K of the race's $24M was spent on candidates not listed here. 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: Pete Ricketts $1.9M.
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.
Not on the November ballot
9 filed- Cindy BurbankDemocratWon the primary, then withdrew.$40K
- William ForbesDemocrat$1K
- Ben SasseRepublican$993K
- Debra Axtell SchultzRepublican-
- Charles Conboy-
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.
How this seat voted last time
R+25 in 2024
- Pete Ricketts Won: 62.6%
- Preston Love Jr.: 37.4%
935,005 votes for candidates. It was a special election for the rest of the term, held November 5, 2024. 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 May 21, 2026 and September 30, 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.