Omaha: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Ricketts seat, class 2); U.S. Representative NE-2 (open — Bacon not running); Governor and Lt. Governor (joint ticket), Secretary of State, Treasurer, Attorney General, Auditor; Public Service Commission District 2; even-numbered Legislature districts (in Omaha: LD-4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 18, 20 — not LD-7 at city hall); University regents, State Board of Education, MCC, MUD, OPPD, NRD, Learning Community, school boards, Douglas County offices and judicial retention; statewide ballot measures. No City of Omaha offices — next city election is 2029..

Holding office14
the sitting council
On the ballot16
4 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Omaha is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): Nebraska's 2nd congressional district (city hall, Omaha/Douglas County Civic Center, 1819 Farnam St); NE-2 covers all of Omaha — Don Bacon (Republican)

1

Mayor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
John Ewing Elected Mayor Independent Douglas County Election Commission
2

Council Member

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Aimee Melton Elected Council Member Independent District 7 Douglas County Election Commission
Danny Begley Elected Council Member Independent District 3 Douglas County Election Commission
Donald Rowe Elected Council Member Independent District 5 Douglas County Election Commission
LaVonya Goodwin Elected Council Member Independent District 2 Douglas County Election Commission
Peter Festersen Elected Council Member Independent District 1 Douglas County Election Commission
Ronald Hug Elected Council Member Independent District 4 Douglas County Election Commission
3

Governor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Jim Pillen ✉️ Elected Governor → Running Republican Office of Governor Jim Pillen
Brett Lindstrom Governor Running America First Nebraska Secretary of State
Lynne Walz ✉️ Governor Running Democratic Nebraska Secretary of State
Rick Beard Governor Running Legal Marijuana NOW Nebraska Secretary of State
4

Lieutenant Governor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Joe Kelly Elected Lieutenant Governor → Running Republican Office of the Lieutenant Governor; Douglas County EC elected officials list
Ben Steffen Lieutenant Governor Running Democratic Nebraska Secretary of State
Keenya Barnes Lieutenant Governor Running Legal Marijuana NOW Nebraska Secretary of State
Michael Picard Lieutenant Governor Running America First Nebraska Secretary of State
5

Member of the Legislature — LD-7

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Dunixi Guereca ✉️ Elected Member of the Legislature — Nebraska Legislature
6

U.S. Senator

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Deb Fischer Elected U.S. Senator Republican @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); cross-checked on Douglas County EC elected officials list
Pete Ricketts ✉️ Elected U.S. Senator → Running Republican @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); cross-checked on Douglas County EC elected officials list
Chuck Conboy U.S. Senator Running America First Nebraska Secretary of State
Dan Osborn ✉️ U.S. Senator Running Independent Nebraska Secretary of State
Mike Marvin U.S. Senator Running Legal Marijuana NOW Nebraska Secretary of State
Robin Richards U.S. Senator Running Nebraska Working People Nebraska Secretary of State
7

U.S. Representative — NE-2

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Don Bacon Elected U.S. Representative Republican U.S. House of Representatives
Brinker Harding ✉️ Elected Council Member → Running for U.S. Representative Independent NE-2 Douglas County Election Commission
Denise Powell ✉️ U.S. Representative Running Democratic Nebraska Secretary of State
Eric Michael Foreman U.S. Representative Running Libertarian Nebraska Secretary of State
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Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

  • Municipal: cityofomaha.org (www and citycouncil.) returned HTTP 403 'Access Denied' (Akamai edgesuite) to robots.txt and every page with one plain User-Agent; not retried or bypassed. Mayor and the 7 council members are therefore from the Douglas County Election Commission 'Current Elected Officials' page (official election authority for Omaha), retrieved 2026-10-22. No photos, websites or emails recorded for city officials (city site unreachable). Omaha has no other city-wide elected office (mayor + 7 district council members).
  • Next City of Omaha election: 2029. Douglas County EC 'City of Omaha Elections' page: held 'every four years ... the year following a Presidential Election'; primary 'the first Tuesday in April', general 'the first Tuesday after the second Monday in May'; officially nonpartisan. By that rule the 2029 dates are 3 April (primary) and 15 May (general) — computed, not printed.
  • Federal: Senators from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json; Rep. Don Bacon from house.gov/representatives (Nebraska table); all three also on the Douglas County EC list. senate.gov not used. Census TIGERweb: 20,650 grid points inside the Omaha place polygon (GEOID 3137000) all fall in NE-2 (120th Congress), so NE-2 is the only district.
  • State: the Census geocoder puts city hall (1819 Farnam St) in 2026 State Legislative District 7 (Sen. Dunixi Guereca, nebraskalegislature.gov). By the same grid, 14 legislative districts cover Omaha: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18, 20, 31, 39 (point-count order: 13 largest). Only LD-7's senator is recorded. LD-7 is odd-numbered and its next election is 2028, so no state-legislative contest at city hall in 2026. Governor and Lt. Governor from governor.nebraska.gov / ltgov.nebraska.gov.
  • Candidates: Nebraska Secretary of State 'Final Statewide General Candidate List', November 3, 2026 General Election, dated 9/11/2026 (PDF), retrieved 2026-10-22. Captured: U.S. Senate (5 names), Congress District 02 (3), Governor and Lt. Governor (4 joint tickets, split into one row each). The list prints mailing addresses, phones and some personal-looking emails — none copied; only campaign-domain emails kept (gmail-type addresses dropped). Party as printed; 'By Petition' (Dan Osborn) recorded partyShort 'Independent'. No write-ins on the list were captured. No contest in scope has a single candidate.
  • Open seat: NE-2 (Bacon not on the general list). Incumbent-running: Ricketts (U.S. Senate), Pillen and Kelly (Governor/Lt. Governor ticket), and Omaha Council Member Brinker Harding (District 6), who is the Republican nominee for NE-2 — recorded once, as a council member with runningFor U.S. Representative NE-2.
  • Not used: the Douglas County EC 2026 General candidate PDF (/elections/2026/General/GN26Candidates.pdf) and its office-detail pages, because votedouglascounty-ne.gov robots.txt disallows /elections/, /pdf/ and /office_detail.aspx. The candidate_info.aspx page (allowed) is a form postback and was not needed; the SOS list covers every in-scope office.
  • Robots/terms: votedouglascounty-ne.gov (robots read; pages used are allowed; copyright notice only), sos.nebraska.gov (Drupal robots; /sites/default/files allowed; no reuse terms stated), nebraskalegislature.gov (robots read; Crawl-delay 3 honoured), governor.nebraska.gov and ltgov.nebraska.gov (robots read), house.gov (allowed), unitedstates.github.io (no robots.txt; CC0), geocoding.geo.census.gov and tigerweb.geo.census.gov (REST query services). No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor null for everyone (no candidate statements read). No rows are 'unofficial'.
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Sources

Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.