2026 elections · Nebraska
Nebraska, followed.
4 federal races with FEC money on file: $40M raised by campaigns and $10M in reported outside spending. Then what happens after the vote.
After the vote / Nov 3, 2026 general election
After the vote in Nebraska.
Results stay unofficial until they are certified. These are the deadlines and rules that come next, each with the record it comes from.
Next dates
- Statewide certification
The Board of State Canvassers certifies on the fourth Monday after the general election.
Nebraska Secretary of State, 2026 election calendar
Recounts
Automatic recount: A recount is automatic when the margin is 1% or less of the votes received by the winning candidate (2% when 500 or fewer votes are cast). The losing candidate can waive it. The threshold is measured of the leading candidate's votes. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1119, recounts
Requested recount: Outside the automatic margin, a candidate may request a recount at $100 per precinct. The statute says the 3rd day after the canvass; the 2026 calendar says 5 days. Nebraska LB 1075 (2026), slip lawNeb. Rev. Stat. § 32-1119, recounts
The calendar sets recounts for candidates filed with the Secretary of State for Dec 2 at 9 a.m.
Not confirmed here: county certification, ballot cure deadline, late mail ballot rule. A missing item means it was not verified, not that no rule exists.
Compiled Nov 5, 2026 from state election offices, calendars and statutes, read through search excerpts of those official pages rather than page by page; each item links its source. Deadlines can move by court order or holiday rules; the state election office is the final word.
Every federal race.
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- Nebraska U.S. Senate Pete Ricketts (Republican), Dan Osborn (Independent), Benjamin E. Sasse (Republican)$23M raised · $1.5M outside
- Nebraska U.S. House District 1 Mike Flood (Republican), Christopher Backemeyer (Democrat), Austin Lawrence Ahlman (Independent)$3.9M raised · $10 outside
- Nebraska U.S. House District 2 Denise Powell (Democrat), Brinker Harding (Republican), John Cavanaugh (Democrat)$11M raised · $8.5M outside
- Nebraska U.S. House District 3 Adrian Smith (Republican), Becky Lynn Stille (Democrat), David P. Huebner (Republican)$2.4M raised · $283K outside
Outside groups in Nebraska.
Summed from each candidate's five largest spenders on each side, so these totals are a floor.
- FIGHT FOR NEBRASKA PAC$1.3M for Denise Powell · $675K against John Cavanaugh
- CLF$1.4M against Denise Powell
- HMP$1.4M against Brinker Harding
- NEW DEMOCRAT MAJORITY$735K against John Cavanaugh
- CHC BOLD PAC$577K for Denise Powell
- LEAD LEFT PAC$435K against John Cavanaugh
- COMMON DEFENSE ACTION FUND$286K for Cindy Burbank · $73K for Mike Marvin
- BOLD AMERICA$419K for Denise Powell
- EDW ACTION FUND$199K for Denise Powell · $199K against John Cavanaugh
- FELLOWSHIP PAC$350K for Pete Ricketts
FEC bulk data read November 4, 2026. Campaign totals come from each filing's own FEC summary through its latest processed report. Outside spending is independent expenditures itemized in committee reports in the FEC bulk files, primaries included; late 24- and 48-hour reports, party coordinated spending, communication costs and groups that do not report to the FEC are not included. Outside spending is, by law, made without coordinating with the candidate, and it is not the candidate's money. A contribution or expenditure is not evidence of a vote, favor or wrongdoing.