Daily Kos Elections is pleased to present our comprehensive guide to all the major-party nominees running in every Senate, House, and gubernatorial election this November.
Our guide includes data on age, gender, race or ethnicity, religious affiliation, LGBTQ status, and even name pronunciation for many candidates, including all of those running in the most competitive contests. We’ve also included Daily Kos Elections' current race ratings for each office, along with our calculation of the 2016 and 2012 presidential election results for every House district.
We’ll be continually updating this guide as we come across new information, and it will form the basis for our comprehensive guide to the 117th Congress following the election. You can find similar data for the 116th Congress here, which includes all of the above data for every member of Congress, as well as additional electoral and demographic stats for the constituencies they represent.
This year’s House candidates have set new records for diversity, though there’s still a ways to go toward equality. Among Democrats, 48% of the candidates for whom we have data are women, 38% are people of color, at least 21 individuals are LGBTQ, and at least 38 are Hindu, Jewish, or Muslim. While Republicans are still overwhelmingly white, Christian, male, and non-LGBTQ, they, too, have slowly seen the diversity of their recruits increase compared to past years. They still lag Democrats badly, however: Just 22% of their candidates are women and 18% are people of color.
This guide was compiled by Daily Kos Elections' Stephen Wolf and Daniel Donner. We owe a special thanks to the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies, the Center for Responsive Politics, the Forward, Indian Country Today, the Justice Education Technology Political Advocacy Center, the LGBTQ Victory Fund, and Rutgers University's Center for American Women and Politics for sharing a host of demographic data with us.
