Free public service for Missouri votersNo candidate endorsementsGuide sources checked October 1, 2026General election November 3, 2026
Scope and limitations
What this Missouri guide covers
This guide covers Missouri's 1 statewide candidate contest and all 3 certified printed candidates. It preserves exact MEC records, a missing-record explanation, provisional write-in status, five statewide measures, and one statewide judicial retention item.
Included
Published now
All 3 certified printed candidates in Missouri's 1 statewide candidate contest
The official August 25 candidate and judicial certification
Current official write-in status, with zero published statewide names as of October 1 and the October 23 deadline disclosed
2 exact MEC 30 Day After Primary report summaries and one explicit missing-record explanation
0 FEC statewide summaries because no federal statewide candidate contest appears on Missouri's 2026 roster
Registration, reason-based absentee, no-excuse in-person absentee, mail request, ballot receipt, voter identification, and Election Day rules
All 5 certified statewide ballot measures
One statewide Missouri Supreme Court retention question
Not included
Outside this release
U.S. House district contests and their FEC finance comparisons
State Senate, State House, circuit, county, municipal, school, and other district or local contests
Court of Appeals, circuit, and associate circuit judicial items that are not decided by all Missouri voters
Greg Upchurch, whose committee is terminated and whose name is absent from the certified general-election roster
Named write-ins filed or published after the October 1 check until the guide is refreshed
Independent expenditures and outside spending beyond each selected committee report
Transaction-level donor and expenditure analysis
County and local ballot questions
Known finance limits
1 finance summary unavailable
Dustin CoffellThe official MEC Candidates by Election search for the November 3, 2026, State Auditor contest returns active committees for Scott Fitzpatrick and Quentin Wilson plus terminated Upchurch4MO, but no Dustin Coffell committee. MEC states that results are limited to information candidates provided when registering or amending committees. No exact Coffell record, report, or dollar value was available to reproduce as of October 1. Missing here does not mean $0.
District contests, local ballot styles, and itemized finance
Congressional, legislative, appellate district, circuit, county, municipal, school, local-question, and transaction-level finance expansion are outside this statewide release.
Dataset comparison: Do not compare state datasets as if they use one method. Nevada includes itemized transactions. Alabama uses race-level portal summaries. Alaska uses APOC and FEC records. Arizona uses Spotlight summaries across a calendar-year filter. Arkansas uses candidate summaries for Election Year 2026. California uses CAL-ACCESS committee totals. Colorado uses TRACER and FEC summaries. Connecticut uses W4POLITICS sums of nonoverlapping SEEC30 report periods plus the latest reported balance. Delaware uses verified CFRS filings and FEC summaries. Florida uses candidate-specific All Dates Totals. Georgia uses campaign-to-date PeachFile fields. Hawaii uses Candidate Filing System report totals. Idaho uses Idaho Sunshine candidate totals and processed FEC summaries. Illinois uses one latest non-archived D-2 Quarterly Report per exact office-matching candidate committee plus separate FEC summaries. Iowa uses exact fields from each committee's DR-2 summary for the period ending July 14 and processed FEC summaries through June 30. Kansas uses exact fields from reports covering January 1 through July 23, preserves two exemption affidavits as threshold statements, and uses processed FEC summaries through July 15. Kentucky and Louisiana each have one federal statewide contest and use FEC summaries; no state candidate-finance comparison applies. Maine uses campaign-to-date Ethics profile fields checked October 1 and FEC current-cycle summaries through June 30. Maryland uses one official MDCRIS Pre-General 1 report per exact statewide candidate committee; one ALCE threshold affidavit is not converted into exact totals. Massachusetts uses exact August Composite Depository Bank Report fields and candidate-specific FEC windows. Mississippi has one federal statewide contest and uses FEC summaries. Missouri uses exact fields from the latest full MEC report for each active exact committee match; one missing candidate record is not converted into zero, and no FEC statewide comparison applies.
Version record
Missouri guide 1.0
PublishedOctober 1, 2026
Contests shown1
Ballot choices3
Ballot measures5
1 statewide candidate contest, 3 certified printed candidates, 2 exact MEC report summaries, one missing state-finance record explanation, 0 FEC summaries, zero published named statewide write-ins as of October 1, 5 statewide ballot measures, one statewide Supreme Court retention question, voter deadlines, and primary sources.
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Missouri guide publication record
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Published
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1.0
October 1, 2026
1 statewide candidate contest, 3 certified printed candidates, 2 exact MEC report summaries, one missing state-finance record explanation, 0 FEC summaries, zero published named statewide write-ins as of October 1, 5 statewide ballot measures, one statewide Supreme Court retention question, voter deadlines, and primary sources.
