North Dakota elections in 2026
3 electoral votes · 1 House seat · Great Plains · no statewide race on the 2026 ballot
House delegation as simulated: 0 D, 1 R, 0 tossups of 1 district swept.
Model readings of live reporting, not polling. The full North Dakota board, with sourcing and the county map where one exists, is on the Midterms 2026 tab of the homepage.
How North Dakota votes
North Dakota's oil boom reshaped its economy alongside durable agriculture. It is a strongly Republican state where energy policy, commodity prices and water projects define most statewide debate.
Its largest population centers include Fargo, Bismarck, Grand Forks. Where a state's people live, and what those places do for a living, is the starting point for how Electorate HQ simulations reason about it.
On the ballot in North Dakota
Election day is November 3, 2026. North Dakota has no statewide race and 1 House seat on the ballot.
Statewide races
No Senate seat or governorship is up in North Dakota this cycle. Every House seat still is.
House districts
Every House seat is elected every two years. Each district below is listed with the counties inside it, computed from the current Census boundary files, wherever those files give a clean answer. Not sure which district is yours? Use the address lookup below.
- North Dakota at-large: Adams, Barnes, Benson, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh and 45 more counties (53 in all)
Find your exact districts
Your address goes to the U.S. Census Bureau's public geocoder to find your districts. It is not stored, and no AI sees it.
Which district am I in? North Dakota districts by county
House districts follow population, not county lines, so a single county can hold several districts and a single district can span many. Each county is listed under the district that holds its center, so if your county appears once above, that district holds most of it and is probably yours. If it appears under several, or if you live near a district line, use the address lookup for the exact answer.
Before you vote in North Dakota
Registration deadlines, early voting windows, mail ballot rules and identification requirements are all set at the state level and change between cycles, so the authoritative source is your own election office rather than any national site. The federal directory at vote.gov links to every state's registration system, and your county election office publishes the sample ballot that includes local contests.
The ballot section above covers the federal and statewide offices on the North Dakota ballot for November 3, 2026. Each statewide race links to a page with current coverage and an AI-generated simulation of the contest, always labeled as a simulation rather than a poll.
Local races
Local councils and commissions, school boards, judges, sheriffs and municipal offices are also on many North Dakota ballots, and they vary block by block. Your county election office publishes the authoritative local sample ballot.
North Dakota's weight in Washington
North Dakota carries 3 electoral votes, which ranks it 48 of 51 by that measure, and sends 1 voting member to the House.
That arithmetic is why the same national argument lands differently here than in a state of another size: a candidate courting North Dakota is competing for a specific share of the map, and the issues below are the ones that share actually turns on.
How North Dakota is represented
North Dakota is one of the states small enough to elect a single at-large representative, so one person carries the whole state's voice in the House while two senators carry equal weight to those of California. That asymmetry is the deliberate design of the chamber, and it means a voter here has considerably more influence per head in the Senate than a voter in a large state.
Electoral votes follow the same arithmetic, House seats plus two, which is why North Dakota carries 3 in a presidential year and why small states carry proportionally more weight there than population alone would give them. The district list above shows every district on the 2026 ballot and the counties the boundary files place inside each one.
Latest North Dakota political headlines
Sponsor, opponent debate need for North Dakota ballot measure to change constitutionArmstrong aligns state's workforce efforts, names Katie Ralston Howe as first workforce commissionerNorth Dakota Election 2026: Key Races and Historical Presidential Election Results‘The Supreme Court needed to hear from North Dakota’: Sec. of State Howe reacts to blocked mail ballot mandateNorth Dakota governor opposes a media ban at the White HouseConstitutional Amendment 1State lawmakers come to UND to hear from leaders, studentsNorth Dakota Supreme Court upholds ban on transgender healthcare for minorsSimulate North Dakota
In the Electorate HQ simulator, North Dakota is one of 51 delegations that reads current reporting and decides a presidential race issue by issue. Results are AI simulations, clearly labeled, with the reasoning shown for every call. See the methodology for what that does and does not mean.
Analysis covering North Dakota
In five states, the House race is the entire federal ballot in 2026
Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Utah and Washington have no Senate or governor race in 2026. Thirty-two House contests are the entire federal ballot.
Six states have exactly one representative, and they are not alike
Alaska, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming each elect a single at-large member. The largest is 266 times the smallest.
Election night is reported in 3,142 counties and decided in 435 districts
The unit America counts votes in and the unit America allocates House seats in are different shapes, and they do not nest inside each other.