This year’s filing deadline for candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York was April 6, 2026.
This year had the third-highest number of candidates who ran for the U.S. House since 2014. Eighty-nine candidates — 59 Democrats and 30 Republicans — are running for New York’s 26 congressional districts. That’s 3.4 candidates per district. There were 2.3 candidates per district in 2024, 4.1 in 2022, four in 2020, 3.1 in 2018, 2.9 in 2016, and two in 2014. New York had 26 congressional districts in the 2026, 2024, and 2022 election cycles. It had 27 congressional districts in all other cycles from 2014 to 2020.