Election Information

2026 REMAINING ELECTION DATES

August 11, 2026: Fall Primary
November 3, 2026: General Election

REGULARLY SCHEDULED ELECTIONS

Spring Primary

Primary held on the third Tuesday in February to nominate non-partisan candidates to be voted for at the Spring Election. State Statute 5.02(22)

Spring Election

Election held on the first Tuesday in April to elect judicial, educational, and municipal officers, and non-partisan county officers, and to express preferences for the person to be the presidential candidate for each part in presidential election years. State Statute 5.02(21)

Fall Primary

Primary held in even-numbered years on the second Tuesday in August, to nominate candidates to be voted for at the General Election, and to determine which candidates for state officers other than district attorney may participate in the Wisconsin election campaign fund. State Statute 5.02(12s)

General Election

Election held in even-numbered years on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November to elect United States senators, representatives to congress, presidential electors, state senators, representatives to the assembly, district attorneys, state officers other than the state superintendent and judicial officers, and county officers other than supervisors and county executives. State Statute 5.02(5)

ELECTION NOTICES

Notice of Partisan Primary August 11, 2026 and General Election November 3, 2026

ABSENTEE BALLOTS

Indefinitely confined status shall not be used by electors to request an absentee ballot simply as a means to avoid the photo ID requirement without regard to whether they are indefinitely confined because of age, physical illness, infirmity or disability.

Unless you are a voter with a disability, you must personally return your own ballot and it must be received in time to be delivered to your absentee no later than 8:00 p.m. on ballot counting location Election Day.

How to Return your Absentee Ballot:

Mail it back allowing one-week for USPS.
Drop it off at your municipal clerk’s office.
Drop it off at your absentee ballot counting location.
Voters with disabilities have the right to assistance in returning an absentee ballot. The voter’s assistant can be anyone who is not the voter’s employer, an agent of the employer, a representative of their labor union, or a candidate on the ballot.
Absentee ballots may not be returned by email or fax.

IMPORTANT ELECTION DEADLINES

Register to Vote, Request an Absentee Ballot Online, or Check on your absentee ballot request and if your ballot has been received at 'MyVote Wisconsin'

Additional information on Photo ID is available at 'Bring it to the Ballot'

Wisconsin Election Commission Facebook Page

Wisconsin Election Commission X Feed

VOTING RESULTS

Statewide Election Results

Local Election Results

RUNNING FOR OFFICE

http://elections.wi.gov/candidates