Where They Stand – Nonpartisan Guide to Every House and Senate Race

Nonpartisan. Not an official ballot: your county election office publishes that. Money links to its FEC filing and every vote to the official roll call. How we read the record

A nonpartisan guide to the people running for Congress. For every House and Senate race it shows who has filed, the money behind each campaign from FEC filings, each candidate's own published priorities in their own words where their campaign site lists them, and how the incumbents have voted.

Enter your ZIP code or town at the top of this page. If your ZIP code crosses district lines, every district it touches is shown so you can pick yours. You can also choose your state on the map or from the list.

Campaign money comes from the Federal Election Commission, votes from the House Clerk and the Senate, bills from Congress.gov, district lines from the Census Bureau, ballot results from civicAPI, polls from The New York Times, and priorities and endorsements from each campaign's own website. Profiles link each money figure to its FEC filing, and every vote links to the official roll call.

No. Nothing is scored or ordered by how well it fits anyone's views. Lists follow plain facts such as ballot standing and money raised, and each candidate's priorities are quoted as they wrote them.

Each candidate's priorities appear under their own headings, in their own order. Sorting them into topics of ours would put words in their mouths, so the side-by-side view lines up standing, money, endorsements and office instead.

No. Your county or state election office publishes the official ballot. Filing with the FEC is a disclosure of campaign money, not a place on the ballot, so each race separates the two.

Campaign money follows each committee's latest FEC filing, which most campaigns make every quarter and more often close to an election. Each race and profile says the date its filings run through, and each vote page gives the date of the roll call.

A PAC is a committee that raises money to give to candidates or to spend on elections. Outside spending is money a group spends for or against a candidate on its own rather than giving it to the campaign. Profiles and race pages show both from FEC filings.

Your state election office has both, and vote.gov links to every state's registration check and polling-place lookup.

There are no accounts. To suggest a ZIP code, the home page asks Cloudflare, which carries the site's traffic, for the approximate ZIP of your connection; it is not stored, and no outside service is asked. ZIP codes and towns are matched to districts on our own server, from Census data; nothing you search is sent anywhere else. The district you choose, and your light or dark setting, are remembered only in this browser.