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Elections · U.S. House · Wisconsin

2026 Wisconsin House race, District 1

Bryan Steil (Republican) and Mitchell Berman (Democrat) are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for U.S. House in Wisconsin District 1, as recorded September 21, 2026.

The November ballot

Steil
$5.5M
Berman
$713K

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

Official candidate list: Wisconsin Elections Commission. Not a prediction.

The seat

Bryan Steil

Republican · Holds the seat now

First took office 2019 · Age 45

14
Trades disclosed
$295K
Estimated volume
12
Committee overlaps
Cosponsored H.R. 7008, the Stop Insider Trading Act

From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.

See their record

How to vote in Wisconsin

  • General electionNovember 3, 2026 

Register 20 days before online or by mail, the Friday before in person at your clerk, or same-day at the polls on Election Day.

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How they won the primary

The primary · 71,403 votes

  • Mitchell Berman Won: 44.1% 31,494
  • Peter Burgelis (withdrawn): 21.6% 15,455
  • Lorenzo Santos: 20.4% 14,590
  • Miguel Aranda: 13.6% 9,701

The total includes 163 write-in or scattered votes not listed by candidate.

Primary results as recorded October 12, 2026, ordered by votes. Source: Wisconsin Elections Commission certified primary canvass. Certified August 25, 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
$6.3M
Outside money
$3.2M

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Steil$2M
Opposing Steil$335K
Supporting Berman$574K
Opposing Berman$277K

Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing. The other $1K of the race's $3.2M was spent on candidates not listed here.

Where each candidate's money comes from

4%$253KSmall donors$346K48%
23%$1.2MLarge donors$348K49%
30%$1.6MPACs$20K3%
<1%$1KParty--
43%$2.3MOther--

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: Bryan Steil $2.2M.

Who is spending on this race

The largest groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

1 to 5 of 17 groups

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.

Also filed for this seat

11 filed

Not on the November ballot

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

R+10 in 2024

  • Bryan Steil Won: 54.0%
  • Peter Barca: 43.8%

393,493 votes for candidates. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 2.2%. 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.

The district

Census context
People
734K
Median household income
$80K
Unemployment
3.8%
Living below the poverty line
9.8%
Without health insurance
5.4%

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

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Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are each campaign's latest FEC report, ending between July 22, 2026 and September 17, 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 this two-year cycle, the same as the candidate totals. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.