Democratic Atlas: U.S. House Election 2026

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P02

Public health-insurance option

Create a public health-insurance option that competes with private plans.

Support, oppose, and no stated position across tracked Democratic House candidates. Counts are candidates, not districts. Only fact-checked answers enter those three buckets. A missing cosponsorship is not an absence — candidates we have not statement-researched yet show as not yet researched and stay out of the share.

All tracked candidates

Every active Democrat on the Atlas roster for this cycle.

  • Support123 (28.4%)
  • Oppose2 (0.5%)
  • No stated position182 (42%)
  • Mixed: 0
  • Unclear: 126
  • Not yet researched: 3

436 candidates in this group · 433 in the support / oppose / no-stated share

Incumbents

Sitting House members on the November ballot.

  • Support81 (44.5%)
  • Oppose0 (0%)
  • No stated position41 (22.5%)
  • Mixed: 0
  • Unclear: 60
  • Not yet researched: 0

182 candidates in this group

Challengers and open seats

Challengers plus open-seat candidates (everyone who is not an incumbent).

  • Support42 (16.7%)
  • Oppose2 (0.8%)
  • No stated position141 (56.2%)
  • Mixed: 0
  • Unclear: 66
  • Not yet researched: 3

254 candidates in this group · 251 in the support / oppose / no-stated share

DSA / Justice Democrats–backed

Reviewed membership or endorsement by Democratic Socialists of America or Justice Democrats. Overlaps the groups above.

  • Support0 (0%)
  • Oppose0 (0%)
  • No stated position1 (14.3%)
  • Mixed: 0
  • Unclear: 6
  • Not yet researched: 0

7 candidates in this group

Preview only. Production publish waits on Peter. Mixed and unclear stay separate from oppose. No stated position means a checked statement absence only — never a missing cosponsorship — and is never counted as opposition.