IFPTE Backs Pro-Worker Candidates for 2026 U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate Elections
The 2026 Congressional elections come at a pivotal moment in American history and will have a monumental impact on working people and union members throughout the United States. All 435 seats in House of Representatives, plus 6 nonvoting delegate seats, and 33 of the 100 Senate seats are up for election.
The candidates on the ballot — whether incumbent Members of Congress seeking reelection, candidates challenging sitting Representatives and Senators, or candidates running for open seats — are running for office at a time when Americans are facing an unsustainable increase in the cost of living, increasing inequality in wealth and power between working people and corporate oligarchs, worsening and diminishing investments in the social safety net, and an underfunding of education and our communities.
At the same time, Americans are witnessing the country’s democratic institutions and good governance principles under stress, if not outright attack, as the President and his family are profiting at unprecedented levels during his term in office, and Congress’s constitutional authority to approve spending and provide oversight is willfully undermined by the Office of the President, civil service rules and laws designed to provide a professional merit-based and nonpartisan government are eroded, and federal agencies that provide critical services and world-leading research are needlessly sabotaged by Executive Branch leadership.
For IFPTE members and the American labor movement, the presidential executive orders that seek to deny 1.3 million federal workers their union rights constitutes the most profound expression of the attack on our democratic principles and the advances that the American workers have made throughout the history of the country. We look to Congress to stopping the largest single union-busting effort being carried out throughout the executive branch through legislation — namely the Protect America’s Workforce Act (PAWA) and through must-pass legislation like the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Below is a bipartisan list of Congressional candidates that IFPTE is supporting in the 2026 elections this November. These candidates have stood with IFPTE on the issues that impact the union’s diverse and growing membership. Candidates are listed in alphabetical order by state.
NOTE:
Check mark [ ✔ ] indicates an incumbent candidate who voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act (PAWA, H.R. 2550) in 2025, endorsed the Senate PAWA bill (S. 2837) and/or supported to restore federal Department of Defense workers’ collective bargaining rights through the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Asterisk mark [ ✱ ] indicates an incumbent candidate who cosponsored the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act, HR 20/S. 852) to update private sector labor law and cosponsored the Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act (PSFNA, H.R. 2736/S.1352) to bring much-needed collective bargaining protections to public sector workers.
If background information is needed on any of the candidates below, please contact IFPTE’s Legislative Department.
Alabama
House: ✔✱ Shomari Figures (D, AL-02), ✔✱ Rep. Terri Sewell (D, AL-07)
Alaska
Senate: ✱ Rep. Mary Peltola (D, AK)
Arizona
House: ✔✱ Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D, AZ-02), ✔✱ Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D, AZ-07)
California
House: ✔✱ Rep. John Garamendi (D, CA-08), ✔✱ Rep. Josh Harder (D, CA-09), ✔✱ Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D, CA-19), Connie Chan (D, CA-12), Dr. Richard Pan (D, CA-06) ✔✱ Rep. Linda Sánchez (D, CA-38), ✔✱ Rep. Lateefah Simon (D, CA-12), ✔✱ Rep. Mark Takano (D, CA-39), Randy Villegas (D, CA-22), Marni von Wilpert (D, CA-48), Rep. Aisha Wahab (D, CA-14), ✔✱ George Whitesides (D, CA-27)
Colorado
Senate: ✔✱ Sen. John Hickenlooper (D, CO)
Connecticut
House: ✔✱ Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D, CT-3)
Delaware
Senate: ✔✱ Sen. Chris Coons (D, DE)
District of Columbia
House: Robert White (D, DC)
Florida
House: ✔✱ Rep. Maxwell Frost (D, FL-10)
Senate: Angie Nixon (D, FL)
Georgia
House: ✔✱ Rep. Hank Johnson (D, GA-4)
Hawaii
House: ✔✱ Rep. Ed Case (D, HI-1) ✔✱ Rep. Jill Tokuda (D, HI-2)
House: ✔✱ Kaylee Peterson (D, ID-01)
Indiana
House: ✔✱ Rep. Frank Mrvan (D, IN-01)
lllinois
House: Melissa Bean (D, IL-08), Daniel Biss (D, IL-09), ✔✱ Rep. Nikki Budzinski (D, IL-13), La Shawn Ford (D, IL-07), ✔✱ Rep. Bill Foster (D, IL-11), Patti García (D, IL-04), ✔✱ Jonathan Jackson (D, IL-01), Donna Miller (D, IL-02), ✔✱ Rep. Delia Ramirez (D, IL-03)
Senate: Juliana Stratton (D, IL)
Kansas
House: ✔✱ Rep. Sharice Davids (D, KS-03)
Senate: Adam Hamilton (D, KS)
Louisiana
House: ✔✱ Rep. Troy Carter (D, LA-2)
Maine
House: Matt Dunlap (D, ME-2), ✔✱ Rep. Chellie Pingree (D, ME-1)
Senate: Troy Jackson (D, ME)
Maryland
House: Adrian Boafo (D, MD-05), ✔✱ Rep. Sarah Elfreth (D, MD-03), ✔✱ Rep. Glenn Ivey (D, MD-04), ✔✱ April McClain-Delaney (D, MD-6), ✔✱Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D. MD-7), ✔✱ Rep. Jamie Raskin (D, MD-8),
Massachusetts
House: ✔✱ Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D, MA-4), ✔✱ Rep. Jim McGovern (D, MA-2)
Senate: ✔✱ Sen. Ed Markey (D, MA)
House: Callie Barr (D, MI-01)
Senate: Abdul El-Sayed (D, MI)
Mississippi
House: ✔✱ Rep. Bennie Thompson (D, MS-2)
Montana
House: Sam Forstag (D, MT-01)
Nebraska
House: Chris Backemeyer (D, NE-01), Denise Powell (D, NE-02)
Senate: Dan Osborne (D, NE)
New Hampshire
House: ✔✱ Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D, NH-02), Stefany Shaheen (D, NH-01)
Senate: ✔✱ Rep. Chris Pappas (D, NH)
New Jersey
House: Rebecca Bennett (D, NJ-07 ✔✱ Rep. Herb Conaway (D, NJ-03), ✔✱ Rep. Lamonica McIver (D, NJ-10), ✔✱ Rep. Robert Menendez, Jr. (D, NJ-08), ✔✱ Rep. Donald Norcross (D, NJ-01), ✔✱ Rep. Nellie Pou (D, NJ-09), ✱ Rep. Chris Smith (R, NJ-04), Adam Hamawy (D, NJ-12)
Senate: ✔✱ Sen. Corey Booker (D, NJ)
New York
House: ✔✱ Rep. Yvette Clarke (D, NY-09), ✔ Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R, NY-02), ✔✱Rep. Lauren Gillen (D, NY-04), ✔✱ Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D, NY-08), ✔✱ Rep. George Latimer (D, NY-16), ✔✱ Rep. Tim Kennedy (D, NY-26), ✔Rep. Mike Lawler (R, NY-17), ✔Rep. Nick LaLota (R, NY-01), ✔Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R, NY-11), ✔✱ Rep. John Mannion (D, NY-22), ✔✱ Rep. Joseph Morelle (D, NY25), ✔✱ Rep. Pat Ryan (D, NY-18), ✔✱ Rep. Josh Riley (D, NY-19), ✔✱ Rep. Paul Tonko (D, NY-20), Claire Valdez (D, NY-07)
North Carolina
House: *Rep. Valerie Foushee (D, NC-4)
Ohio
House: *Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D, OH-9), *Rep. Emilia Sykes (D, OH-13)
Senate: Sherrod Brown (D, OH)
Oregon
House: Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D, OR-1), Rep. Janelle Bynum (D, OR-05), Rep. Maxine Dexter (D, OR-03), Rep. Andrea Salinas (D, OR-6), Rep. Val Hoyle (D, OR-04)
Pennsylvania
House: ✔✱ Rep. Brendan Boyle (D, PA-02), ✔ Rep. Rob Bresnahan Jr. (R, PA-08), ✔✱ Rep. Madeline Dean (D, PA-04), ✔✱ Rep. Chris DeLuzio (D, PA-17), ✔✱ Rep. Dwight Evans (D, PA-03), ✔✱ Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R, PA-1), ✔✱ Rep. Summer Lee (D, PA-12), ✔✱ Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D, PA), Janelle Stelson (PA-10), ✔✱ Rep. Susan Wild (D, PA-7)
Rhode Island
Senate: ✔✱ Sen. Jack Reed (D, RI)
Texas
House: ✔✱ Rep. Greg Casar (D, TX-37-33), Colin Allred (D, TX)
Senate: James Talarico (D, TX)
Vermont
House: ✔✱ Rep. Becca Balint (D, VT-At Large)
Virginia
House: ✔✱ Rep. Don Beyer (D, VA-8), Elaine Luria (D, VA-02), ✔✱ Rep. Bobby Scott (D, VA-3), ✔✱ Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D, VA-10), Shannon Taylor (D, VA-01), ✔✱ Rep. James Walkinshaw (D, VA-11)
Senate: ✔✱ Sen. Mark Warner (D, VA)
Washington
House: ✔✱ Rep. Suzan DelBene (D, WA-1), ✔✱ Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D, WA-7), ✔✱ Rep. Rick Larsen (D, WA-2), ✔✱ Rep. Emily Randall (D, WA-06) ✔✱ Rep. Kim Schrier, (D, WA-8), ✔✱ Rep. Adam Smith (D, WA-9)
Wisconsin
House: ✔✱ Rep. Gwen Moore (D, WI-04), ✔✱ Rep. Mark Pocan (D, WI-2)