Everybody counts if they'll hold that oath. This page fills in as we find the real, sourced answer — never with a guess. A blank means we haven't found it yet, not that it doesn't matter.
The idea behind this page, in the words that started it:
"Everybody counts in this site if they will hold that Oath of Office — what if somebody did not know they could vote for them because I want it to show we the people what we can do when we can see?"
So this page doesn't tell you who to vote for. It shows you who's actually running, what they've actually said and filed, and the same numbers for everyone in the race — side by side, sourced, no label on top of it. You draw the conclusion. We just make sure you can see it.
Real, fixed dates from Oregon's own election authority — not a reminder we made up, a countdown against the actual deadline. Counting down in your own device's clock, local time.
Source: Oregon Secretary of State, official 2026 Elections Calendar (PDF). Oregon has no in-person Election Day polling places in the way most states do — every county clerk's office and official drop site is open 7am–8pm on Nov 3 if you need one in person.
Five official, government-run links. Not us, not a party, not a PAC — the actual agencies that run elections.
Six boxes. Check them as you actually do them — not as a promise, a record. Nothing here is saved on our end; the whole checklist lives in the link itself, so it only goes where you send it.
Check a few boxes, then copy the link — the checked state travels with the URL itself, so pasting it to someone else, or bookmarking it, brings the same boxes back checked. The download is a plain text file, nothing sent anywhere.
An incumbent seeking a fourth term, and a real contest on the other side for the first time in a while.
Every field below is sourced. A blank stays a blank until we find the real number.
| Candidate | Party | Current / former office | May 19, 2026 primary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Merkley Incumbent, seeking 4th term |
Democratic | U.S. Senator (2009–present) — already tracked on this site's own map | Won nomination, 93.2% (452,444 votes) |
| David Brock Smith | Republican | Oregon State Senator | Won nomination, 29.5%, over two other candidates |
| Democrats have held this Senate seat since 2008. That's a fact about the state's recent voting history, not a prediction about November. | |||
| Campaign money for this Senate race — not yet pulled from this cycle's filings. Logged, not built yet. | |||
Sources: 2026 U.S. Senate election in Oregon, Wikipedia, citing Oregon Secretary of State canvass data · Oregon Secretary of State, Official Results of May Primary 2026 (official, certified)
A rematch. The same two people ran against each other in 2022.
This is Oregon's first gubernatorial rematch since 1978. Tina Kotek and Christine Drazan ran against each other in 2022; both are on the ballot again in 2026. That's a fact about the calendar, stated once here rather than repeated as commentary in every line below.
Every field below is sourced. A blank stays a blank until we find the real number.
| Candidate | Party | Current / former office | May 19, 2026 primary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tina Kotek Incumbent, seeking 2nd term |
Democratic | Governor of Oregon (2023–present) | Won nomination, 83.6% (385,999 votes) |
| Christine Drazan | Republican | Former Oregon House Minority Leader; 2022 Republican nominee for Governor | Won nomination, 40.5% (172,474 votes) |
| Drazan's primary was closer than her win margin suggests: Ed Diehl, state representative, took 33.0% (140,458 votes) — a 7.5-point race for second place on the Republican side, before the general even starts. | |||
| Campaign money for this race — not yet pulled. Statewide Oregon races file with the Oregon Secretary of State's own ORESTAR system, not the FEC. Logged, not built yet. | |||
Sources: 2026 Oregon gubernatorial election, Wikipedia, citing Oregon Secretary of State canvass data · Oregon Secretary of State, Official Results of May Primary 2026 (official, certified) · Oregon Capital Chronicle, primary results, 2026-05-19
Still blank, on purpose: every dollar figure for both races above. Not built yet. Check back, or if you find it first with a source, that's homework too.
In the meantime: this site already tracks real, sourced money for Oregon's federal delegation currently in office — a different set of people (the sitting House members and Sen. Ron Wyden) than the 2026 nominees above, so the two aren't mixed together here. See who's #PAC_FUNDED and who's #HIGH_PAC_SHARE → Or meet the whole federal delegation directly on the map →
Beta. Ten states built so far. Every number here is dated and linked to where it came from. A blank means we haven't found the real answer yet — we don't fill it with a guess to make the page look finished.
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