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California’s certified candidate list for November 3, 2026 has no U.S. Senate contest. It lists eight statewide executive offices and two Supreme Court retention contests. The qualified-ballot-measures page lists Propositions 1–5 and 37–45.
By Map the Midterms Editorial Team
Last updated: October 28, 2026. Unofficial information. Not affiliated with any government or election authority. Confirm with your official election office (California Secretary of State — Elections).
State briefing
California’s certified list has no U.S. Senate contest. It has eight statewide executive offices, two Supreme Court retention contests, and a long list of qualified propositions. Retention is a yes-or-no vote on a justice, not a race between two candidates. The governor guide stores a Solid Democratic Cook label and a Public Policy Institute of California survey of Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton. The 13th District guide exists because a single Central Valley seat can be closer than the statewide executive races. Vote-by-mail is the ordinary ballot for most Californians. Election-night percentages are the ballots counties have tabulated, not the propositions’ final yes-or-no.
California’s sourced statewide list includes Governor; Lieutenant Governor; Secretary of State; Controller; Treasurer, and 4 more lines on the hub above. This state’s regular Class 2 Senate seat is not on the November 3, 2026 ballot. Voters may still have an unexpired Senate term, a House ballot, or state offices. The office list above is the check. A governor’s race is on the cycle. The winner becomes the state’s chief executive under the state constitution. This page does not predict who that will be. The hub’s summary of the official list includes at least one statewide question. A measure is not a candidate. Its passage rule is in state law, and the legal text is the pamphlet or the certificate, not a campaign slogan. The list is not a sample ballot for a street address. Counties add local offices, and a ZIP sketch on this site is not the official card.
Race guides linked from this hub: CA Governor (Cook Political Report: Solid D, August 20, 2026); CA-13. A rating in that list is the outlet’s label. It is not a Map the Midterms call, and a guide with no rating is not secretly a Toss-up. Candidate names on a guide come from an election-office list, a certified ballot, or the Clerk of the House nominee list. The short bio restates that listing. It is not a speech. Where a card links a verified Ballotpedia profile, the profile collects public reporting. This briefing does not copy it.
Past margins for president, Senate, governor, or a House district are the canvass California Secretary of State — Elections certified, and for federal offices the compilation the Federal Election Commission publishes from those state reports. This briefing does not drop in a percentage it has not copied from one of those documents. A close prior canvass is a reason to watch how California reports mail and provisional ballots. It is not a 2026 result. Turnout rates disagree when one chart uses the Census Bureau’s survey and another uses registered voters or ballots counted. Sacramento is the capital. Most of California is on Pacific Time. Poll-close comparisons with other states have to respect that clock. Certification is the state’s work, on the state’s calendar, after election night.
After November 3
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Names and parties are copied in stored-list order: U.S. Senate, each U.S. House district, governor, then other statewide offices, including attorney general, secretary of state, treasurer, auditor, comptroller, superintendent, commissioners, and state supreme court seats when that list contains them. State legislative contests are included when that stored list contains them.
Source: Ballotpedia, Lieutenant Governor of California, 2026 general-election candidate list
Source: Ballotpedia, Attorney General of California, 2026 general-election candidate list
Source: Ballotpedia, California Secretary of State, 2026 general-election candidate list
Source: Ballotpedia, California Commissioner of Insurance, 2026 general-election candidate list
Source: Ballotpedia, California Controller, 2026 general-election candidate list
Source: Ballotpedia, California Superintendent of Public Instruction, 2026 general-election candidate list
Source: Ballotpedia, California Treasurer, 2026 general-election candidate list
Source: Ballotpedia, California Supreme Court, 2026 general-election candidate list
Statewide offices on the November 3, 2026 ballot
Last checked October 18, 2026. Sources: California Secretary of State — certified list of candidates, November 3, 2026 general election; California Secretary of State — qualified ballot measures
Dates below are paraphrased from the official pages linked on each line and were last checked against those pages on October 28, 2026. They can change. California Secretary of State — Elections publishes the current calendar. County voting hours vary. “Passed,” “Deadline today,” “In progress,” and “Upcoming” markers use only the date on the device. They ignore cutoff times and the state’s time zone, so a deadline marked for today may already have closed. The marker is not an official cutoff.
October 19, 2026 was the last day to register to vote for the general election. The key-dates page does not split that deadline into mail, online, and in-person cutoffs.
Source: California Secretary of State — key dates and deadlines
Same-day registration is available October 20–November 3, 2026, per the California Secretary of State key-dates page.
Source: California Secretary of State — key dates and deadlines
Early-voting sites opened October 5, 2026. Counties under the Voter’s Choice Act opened vote centers on October 24, 2026. The key-dates page does not list one statewide closing day for those sites before Election Day. County hours vary. Election Day polls are open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Source: California Secretary of State — key dates and deadlines
No later than October 5, 2026, county elections officials began mailing each registered voter a vote-by-mail ballot. The key-dates page does not list a separate application deadline for that mailing.
Source: California Secretary of State — key dates and deadlines
A vote-by-mail ballot returned by mail must be postmarked on or before Election Day and received by the county elections office by November 10, 2026.
Source: California Secretary of State — key dates and deadlines
Compare with other states · California Secretary of State — Elections
This site is not an official election website and is not affiliated with these offices. The links below go to official government websites (and Vote.gov) outside this site. They are California pages for registration, polling places, and mail or absentee ballots.
The Secretary of State’s certified list for the November 3, 2026 general election, dated August 27, 2026, names Xavier Becerra (Democratic) and Steve Hilton (Republican) for governor. The certification says the list contains persons nominated at the June 2, 2026 primary.
The Secretary of State’s certified list for the November 3, 2026 general election names Adam Gray (Democratic) and Kevin Lincoln (Republican) for United States representative, district 13.
Short answers from the offices and race guides already linked on this page. Registration and voting rules are published by California Secretary of State — Elections.
California Secretary of State — Elections · Check registration status · Vote.gov: California registration information · Sample ballot structure
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