Purple Atlas — 2026 Independent Candidate Map

United States & Jurisdictions

Click a state to view its candidates

Territories

Ballot status

Tile color and intensity encode each jurisdiction's dominant status and total candidate count. Counts shown inside tiles.

Methodology & honesty note

Purple Atlas focuses on independent, unaffiliated, and no-party candidates running for Governor, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and Delegate to U.S. House in 2026 — including candidates whose state ballot label is Independent, Unaffiliated, No Party Affiliation (NPA), No Party Preference (NPP), Nonpartisan, Undeclared, or a self-created party-of-one label.

On-ballot status reflects official state and jurisdiction sources (secretary-of-state and election-authority candidate lists) where a list was available. Where no official list has been published yet, candidates are marked Filed / pending; where a candidate could not be located on the official source, they are marked Needs review rather than dropped. Candidates without a verified campaign website are still included and marked Filing verified — no public site yet so no ballot-qualified candidate is hidden.

If you find something that needs to be reviewed, let us know — this dataset gets stronger with community corrections.

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