The November ballot
Raised so far, filed with the FEC
Also in this race: Tim Rogers (Republican) and Arthur Burks (Independent).
Official candidate list: Wisconsin Elections Commission. 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
Gwen Moore
Democrat · Holds the seat now
First took office 2005 · Age 75
Discloses no individual stock trades.
From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.
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 · 113,613 votes
- Gwen Moore Won: 71.9% 81,707
- Amy Donahue: 27.9% 31,707
The total includes 199 write-in or scattered votes not listed by candidate.
The primary · 12,480 votes
- Tim Rogers Won: 80.8% 10,079
- Purnima Nath: 18.9% 2,356
The total includes 45 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
- $1.1M
- Outside money
- $25K
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
- 3%$35K
- Large donors
- 32%$346K
- PACs
- 64%$683K
- Party
- <1%$33
- Self-funding
- <1%$668
- Other
- <1%$5.8K
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.
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
3 filedNot 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.
The district
Census context- People
- 725K
- Median household income
- $60K
- Unemployment
- 5.5%
- Living below the poverty line
- 19.6%
- Without health insurance
- 8.0%
U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate.
How this seat voted last time
D+52 in 2024
- Gwen Moore Won: 74.8%
- Tim Rogers: 22.4%
334,282 votes for candidates. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 2.8%. 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 reported to the FEC through July 22, 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.