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Who is on the ballot in 54965?

Waushara County, WI

Reported by The Ballot Brief Editorial Team. Updated as public election and video sources change.

Fields below reflect the November 3, 2026 general election ballot as races are certified.

10 races on your November 3 ballot. Jump to:
Governor1U.S. House1Statewide4Local1Measures3
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County and municipal contests depend on your exact address — use the address lookup below for the full slate. Every race links to official sources on the Wisconsin voter hub.
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54965 sample ballot preview: statewide, congressional and Waushara County races

U.S. House, Wisconsin District 6
5 candidates
Federal ▾
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Glenn Grothman
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Glenn Grothman is the sitting U.S. representative for this district and appears on the Republican primary ballot for WI-6 on August 11, 2026, per the Wisconsin Elections Commission's certified candidate list. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.
Key voting record
Voted yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the House 218-214 in July 2025. Supported
Voted yes on the Laken Riley Act, expanding federal detention of certain immigrants charged with theft or violent crimes, which passed the House 263-156 in January 2025. Supported
Voted yes on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the House 231-196 in September 2025. Supported
Full profile
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Brad Smith
DEM
Biography
Smith describes himself on the campaign site as a dad, veteran, and business builder running for Congress in Wisconsin, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Raise the minimum wage, expand apprenticeships, and reward companies that create jobs at home
  • Lower healthcare costs and protect coverage for pre-existing conditions
  • Restore prevailing wage and protect workers' right to organize
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Matthew Arndt
Biography
Matthew Arndt is a certified public accountant who operates his own tax and investment advisory firm, per WUWM 89.7 FM. He is running as the Green Party candidate for Wisconsin's 6th congressional district in the November 3, 2026 general election.
Top Priorities
  • Break up corporate monopolies and end corporate welfare
  • Support Medicare for All
  • Oppose prolonged U.S. military engagements abroad
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Elizabeth Anne Fitzgibbon
Biography
Fitzgibbon is a mother and advocate running as an independent for Wisconsin's 6th Congressional District, per her campaign site. She says a complex family law case she took pro se to the U.S. Supreme Court, which the court declined to hear, drove her to focus on government accountability. The Libertarian Party of Wisconsin has endorsed her candidacy, per WisPolitics.
Top Priorities
  • Affordability: pledges to fight wasteful spending and expose hidden costs to protect wages, savings, farms, and small businesses, per the campaign site
  • Accountability: wants stronger oversight, constitutional limits, and real consequences when government officials or agencies fail the people they serve, per the
  • Transparency: aims to shine a light on federal spending, agency decisions, conflicts of interest, surveillance, and data abuse, per the campaign site
Campaign siteFull profile
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Mike Thurow
Biography
Thurow is a Milwaukee Fire Department fire captain and director of the department's HAZMAT team, per his campaign site. Before becoming a professional firefighter in 2013, he spent nearly a decade working at Health Care for the Homeless. He is a lifelong Mequon resident and father of four running as an independent for Wisconsin's 6th Congressional District.
Top Priorities
  • Economic affordability: wants to lower costs by tackling corporate greed, reducing utility costs, and breaking up monopolies in food supply chains and housing m
  • Protecting workers and jobs: supports labor law enforcement, opposing outsourcing trade deals, and bringing back American manufacturing, per the campaign site
  • Combating corruption: backs banning congressional stock trading, campaign finance reform to limit billionaire influence, term limits, and eliminating gerrymande
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
Certified candidate list from the Wisconsin Elections Commission for the August 11, 2026 partisan primary. Each party primary winner advances to the November 3 general ballot. November 3 general-election field, per official August 11, 2026 primary results: Brad Smith won the Democratic nomination by 480 votes over Amanda Bell (AP call, August 12) and faces Republican incumbent Rep. Glenn Grothman. Independent candidates on the November ballot are listed from the Wisconsin Elections Commission's certified Candidates on Ballot list (read September 7, 2026).
Governor
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Tom Tiffany
REP
Biography
The congressman for northern Wisconsin's 7th District, a former state legislator who grew up on a dairy farm and ran a Northwoods cruise business for 20 years, he was endorsed by the state Republican Party at its May convention. Results are unofficial until the state canvass.
Top Priorities
  • Lower costs by freezing property taxes and expanding baseload power
  • Restore order and create opportunity through manufacturing, energy and law enforcement
  • Prepare kids for success with higher standards and dollars directed to students and teachers
Per the campaign site.
Key voting record
Supported 2025 Republican tax and spending package in the House, which passed 218-214. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
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David Crowley
DEM
Biography
David Crowley is the Milwaukee County executive and the Democratic nominee for Wisconsin governor, the first African American and youngest person elected to lead Milwaukee County, and a former state assemblyman. Results are unofficial until the state canvass.
Top Priorities
  • Raise wages and back local ownership and union labor, taking his county Building Bridges program statewide
  • Expand the middle class through apprenticeships in the trades, health care and green energy
  • Invest in housing, health care and climate resilience with measurable outcomes
Per the campaign plan.
Campaign siteFull profile
Lieutenant Governor
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Sarah Godlewski
DEM
Biography
Sarah Godlewski is Wisconsin's secretary of state and a former state treasurer, and the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor. She was unopposed in the August 11 primary and will appear on a joint November ticket with David Crowley. Her run for lieutenant governor is what left the secretary of state's office open.
Top Priorities
  • Make corporations pay their fair share to address affordability
  • Increase Wisconsin's housing supply
  • Protect and expand access to health care and affordable child care
Per the voter-guide questionnaire.
Campaign siteFull profile
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David Varnam
REP
Biography
David Varnam is a former three-term mayor of Lancaster, a former congressional aide and policy analyst who describes himself as a stay-at-home father, and the Republican nominee for Wisconsin lieutenant governor. Results are unofficial until the state canvass.
Top Priorities
  • Lower taxes
  • State and local cooperation with federal immigration authorities
  • Fund law enforcement training
Per the campaign issues page.
Campaign siteFull profile
Attorney General
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Josh Kaul
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Josh Kaul is Wisconsin's incumbent attorney general and the Democratic nominee for a third term, unopposed in the August 11 primary, setting up a November rematch with Eric Toney. A former federal prosecutor, his tenure has focused on public safety, the opioid epidemic, and defending Wisconsin law in high-profile litigation.
Top Priorities
  • Strengthen public safety and support law enforcement partnerships
  • Combat the opioid epidemic and hold companies accountable
  • Defend Wisconsinites' rights in court
Campaign siteFull profile
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Eric Toney
REP
Biography
Eric Toney is the Fond du Lac County district attorney, Wisconsin's 2024 District Attorney of the Year and a former president of the state District Attorneys Association, and the Republican nominee for attorney general, unopposed in the August 11 primary. He was also the party's 2022 nominee, losing to Josh Kaul by 1.3 points.
Top Priorities
  • Bring front-line prosecutor experience to the office
  • Crack down on violent crime and drug trafficking
  • Support law enforcement across Wisconsin
Campaign siteFull profile
Secretary of State
3 candidates
Statewide ▾
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JoCasta Zamarripa
DEM
Biography
JoCasta Zamarripa is a second-term Milwaukee Common Council alder for District 8 and chair of its Licenses Committee, a former state Assembly member, and the Democratic nominee for Wisconsin secretary of state. She was unopposed in the August 11 primary. The seat is open because Sarah Godlewski ran for lieutenant governor instead, Wisconsin's first open secretary of state race since 1978.
Top Priorities
  • Cost of living
  • Housing affordability
  • Stewardship of the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands trust funds and 77,000 acres
Per the campaign issues page.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Jay Schroeder
REP
Biography
Jay Schroeder is a real estate and stock investor, by his own account in the WUWM voter guide, and the Republican nominee for Wisconsin secretary of state. He was also the Republican candidate for this office in 2018 and 2022. Results are unofficial until the state canvass.
Top Priorities
  • Return the chief election official role to the secretary of state
  • Improve transparency of state records
  • Strengthen accountability of election officials
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Pete Karas
Biography
Pete Karas is a small-business owner and former Racine City Council member, and the Wisconsin Green Party's nominee for secretary of state. His nomination papers survived a legal challenge in June 2026. He opposes moving election administration into the secretary of state's office, the central plank of his Republican opponent's campaign.
Top Priorities
  • Ranked choice voting, which he names first in his voter-guide questionnaire
  • Public financing of campaigns, which he names second
  • Independent redistricting, which he names third
Campaign siteFull profile
Treasurer
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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John Leiber
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
John Leiber is Wisconsin's incumbent state treasurer and the Republican nominee for re-election, a practicing Madison attorney elected in 2022. He was unopposed in the August 11 primary. This is the only 2026 race for a Wisconsin statewide office currently held by a Republican.
Top Priorities
  • Grow investment returns and increase what the Common School Fund turns over to schools, per his voter-guide questionnaire
  • Keep the office focused on its existing duties rather than unrelated issues, per his voter-guide questionnaire
  • Administer unclaimed property and promote financial literacy without growing government, per his campaign site
Campaign siteFull profile
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Yee Leng Xiong
DEM
Biography
Yee Leng Xiong is a Marathon County supervisor for District 19 and treasurer of the D.C. Everest school board, and the Democratic nominee for Wisconsin state treasurer. He is executive director of New Beginnings for Refugees and formerly led the Hmong American Center, per his voter-guide questionnaire. Results are unofficial until the state canvass.
Top Priorities
  • Protect and grow the school trust fund
  • Invest in infrastructure through low-interest trust fund loans
  • Return unclaimed money to families and steward more than 74,000 acres of public trust lands
Per the campaign issues page.
Campaign siteFull profile

Countywide races in Waushara County

ZIP 54965 sits in Waushara County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All Waushara County races (3).

Waushara County Sheriff
1 candidate
County ▾
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Zachary L. Gunderson
REP
Biography
Gunderson is a Patrol Sergeant and K9 handler with the Waushara County Sheriff's Office with more than two decades in law enforcement, including roles as correctional officer, deputy, and detective sergeant, per the campaign site. Gunderson serves as a field training officer and is vice president of the Wisconsin Traffic Safety Officers Association, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Operate a sheriff's office that prioritizes crime victims
  • Invest in advanced training and professional standards for deputies
  • Connect people struggling with addiction to recovery resources while targeting drug dealers
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
August 11 primary result: Zachary L. Gunderson (39.5 percent) won the Republican nomination over Sam Wood (35.3 percent), Lafe M. Hendrickson (25.2 percent) and advances to the November 3 ballot, per civicmedia.us reporting of the official results (re-verify against the certified canvass). Three Republicans qualified for ballot placement per a Waushara County notice, and one advances to November against a registered Democratic write in.

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