Under the hood of the federal midterms, 2022 will shape criminal legal institutions around the nation.

There are more than 2400 elections for prosecutor and sheriff, starting in the Texas primary on March 1 and ending in possible general election runoffs in December.

Before we can get to who will run and what may change, the challenge is identifying which offices are even on the line. Below is the Bolts database of the local elections happening this year.

For more coverage, read our introductory national primer published in February, and our guide to the 30 most critical general elections for these offices, published in October.

Also read our primers on Arkansas, California, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oregon, Utah, and Texas.

This database, prepared by Daniel Nichanian. (Note: As vacancies arise, new special elections may be added to the table.)

State	Prosecutor	Sheriff	Key Dates
Alabama	One in each circuit, though Jefferson County’s circuit has two districts	One per county	Filing deadline: 1/28 Primaries: 5/24 & 6/21
Alaska	Not elected	Not elected	N/A
Arizona	Maricopa County (special election)	No regular election	Primary: Aug. 2
Arkansas	One or two per judicial circuit	One per county	Filing deadline: 3/1 Primaries: 5/31 & 6/21
California	One per county (except Los Angeles)	One per county (except San Francisco)	Filing deadline: 3/11 Primary: 6/7
Colorado	No regular election	One per county (except in Bloomfield & Denver)	Filing deadline: 3/15 Primary: 6/28
Connecticut	Not elected	Not elected	N/A
Delaware	Not elected	One per county	Filing deadline: 7/12 Primary: 9/13
Florida	Elections in the 6th judicial circuit (special, Pasco and Pinellas) and 20th circuit (Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry, and Lee)	No regularly-scheduled elections. Duval County has a special election.	Filing deadline: 4/29 Primary: 8/23
Georgia	7 circuits have regular elections: Atlantic (Bryan, Evans, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, Tattnall), Douglas (Douglas), Enotah (Lumpkin, Towns,Union, White), Northeastern (Dawson, Hall), Paulding (Paulding), Rockdale (Rockdale), Waycross (Bacon, Brantley, Charlton, Coffee, Pierce, Ware). In addition, there will be special elections in the circuits of: Alapaha, Cherokee, Columbia, Cordele and Pataula.	No regularly scheduled election	Filing deadline: 3/11 Primaries: 5/24 & 6/21
Hawaii	No regularly scheduled election	Not elected	N/A
Idaho	No regularly scheduled election	No regularly scheduled election	N/A
Illinois	No regularly scheduled election	One per county	Filing deadline: 3/14 Primary: 6/28
Indiana	Every county votes	One per county	Filing deadline: 2/4 Primary: 5/3
Iowa	Every county votes	No regularly scheduled election	Filing deadline: 5/18 Primary: 6/7
Kansas	No regularly scheduled election	No regularly scheduled election	N/A
Kentucky	There are special elections in some counties, namely those in the 15th, 28th, 44th, and 45th circuits.	One per county	Filing deadline: 1/25 Primary: 5/17
Louisiana	No regularly scheduled election	No regularly scheduled election	N/A
Maine	One per district	One per county, except Franklin and Sagadahoc	Filing deadline: 3/15 Primary: 6/14
Maryland	One per county/city	One per county/city	Filing deadline: 4/15 Primary: 7/19
Massachusetts	One per district	One per county	Filing deadline: 5/31 Primaries: 9/20
Michigan	No regularly scheduled election. Delta County will have a special election.	No regularly scheduled election	N/A
Minnesota	One per county	One per county	Filing deadline: 5/31 Primary: 8/9
Mississippi	No regularly scheduled election	No regularly scheduled election	N/A
Missouri	One per county. (Some jurisdictions, like the city of St. Louis and Jackson County, vote on the presidential cycle.)	St. Charles County	Filing deadline: 3/29 Primary: 8/2
Montana	One per county (except Anaconda-Deer Lodge, Butte-Silver Bow, Carter, Petroleum)	One per county (except Anaconda-Deer Lodge, Butte-Silver Bow)	Filing deadline: 3/14 Primary: 6/7
Nebraska	One per county	One per county	Filing deadline: 2/15 Primary: 5/10
Nevada	One per county/city	One per county/city	Filing deadline: 3/18 Primary: 6/14
New Hampshire	One per county	One per county	Filing deadline: 6/10 Primary: 9/13
New Jersey	Not elected	Counties that have regularly-scheduled elections: Burlington, Hudson, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Warren	Filing deadline: 4/4 Primary: 6/7
New Mexico	No regularly scheduled election	One per county (except Lincoln)	Filing deadline: 2/1 Primary: 6/7
New York	Counties with regularly scheduled elections: Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Wyoming	Counties with regularly scheduled elections: Allegany, Broome, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Clinton, Delaware, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Montgomery, Oneida, Onondaga, Ontario, Orange, Oswego, Otsego, Tompkins, Ulster	Filing deadline: 4/7 Primary: 6/28
North Carolina	All judicial districts have a regularly-scheduled election (except those that contain Harnett, Lee, Hoke, Moore, Alexander, Iredell, and Randolph counties, namely the 12th, 29th, 32th, and 37th)	One per county	Filing deadline: 3/4 Primary: 5/17 & 7/26
North Dakota	One per county (except Golden Valley, Steele)	One per county	Filing deadline: 4/11 Primary: 6/14
Ohio	No regularly scheduled election	No regularly scheduled election	N/A
Oklahoma	One per judicial district	No regularly scheduled election	Filing deadline: 4/15 Primaries: 6/28 & 8/23
Oregon	Counties with regularly-scheduled elections: Clastop, Columbia, Crook, Deschutes, Gilliam, Grant, Klamath, Malheur, Marion, Morrow, Sherman, Tilliamook, Union, Wallowa, Washington	Counties with regularly-scheduled elections: Benton, Coos, Crook, Gilliam, Jackson, Jefferson, Josephine, Linn, Multnomah, Polk, Wasco, Yamhill	Filing deadline: 3/8 Primaries: 5/17
Pennsylvania	No regularly scheduled election	No regularly scheduled election	N/A
Rhode Island	Not elected	Not elected	N/A
South Carolina	6 circuits have regularly scheduled elections: —3rd (Clarendon, Lee, Sumter, Williamsburg) —5th (Kershaw, Richland) —6th (Chester, Fairfield, Lancaster) —12th (Florence, Marion) —13th (Greenville, Pickens) —15th (Georgetown, Horry)	7 regularly scheduled elections: Berkeley, Beaufort, Allendale, Chesterfield, Cherokee, Hampton, Kershaw	Filing deadline: 3/30 Primaries: 6/14 & 6/28
South Dakota	No regularly scheduled election	One per county	Filing deadline: 3/29 Primaries: 6/7 & 8/16
Tennessee	One per county	One per county	Filing deadline: 4/7 Primary: 8/4
Texas	Counties of more than 250,000 residents: Bexar, Brazoria, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hays, Hidalgo, Jefferson, Lubbock, McLennan, Smith, Tarrant Other: Anderson, Austin, Bastrop, Bowie, Caldwell, Calhoun, Cass, Comal, Deaf Smith, Eastland, Edwards, Kimble, Gregg, Harrison, Jack, Jackson, Jasper, Kaufman, Kendall, Madison, Mason, McCulloch, Menard, Navarro, Newton, Panola, Polk, Randall, Rockwall, San Jacinto, Taylor, Tyler, Upshur, Van Zandt, Victoria, Walker, Waller, Wichita, Wise, Wood, Yoakum	Counties with special elections: Eastland; Fisher; Gonzalez; Panola, Parker.	Filing deadline: 12/13 (2021) Primaries: 3/1 & 5/24
Utah	One per county	One per county	Filing deadline: 3/4 Primary: 6/28
Vermont	One per county	One per county	Filing deadline: 5/26 Primary: 8/9
Virginia	No regularly-scheduled election. Powhatan and Cumberland counties are having special elections.	No regularly-scheduled election	N/A
Washington	One per county	One per county (except Pierce, Snohomish, Whatcom, and King County)	Filing deadline: 5/20 Primary: 8/2
West Virginia	No regularly-scheduled election	No regularly-scheduled election	N/A
Wisconsin	No regularly-scheduled election	One per county	Filing deadline: 6/1 Primary: 8/9
Wyoming	One per county	One per county	Filing deadline: 5/12 Primary: 5/27