There are roughly 2,400 elections for prosecutor and sheriff in 2026. Below is our Bolts database of those local elections.

Also: read our preliminary overview of these elections, published in January 2026, to learn about the early hotspots—and which prosecutor and sheriff elections are emerging as important battlegrounds.

If your county is not on the list of 2026 elections, find out when it is scheduled to have its prosecutor or sheriff race on our full schedule. Note that, as vacancies arise, new special elections may be added to the table.

	Which counties are electing their prosecutor?	Which counties are electing their sheriff?
Alabama	No regularly scheduled election	One per county
Alaska	Not elected	There are no sheriffs
Arizona	No regularly scheduled election	No regularly scheduled election
Arkansas	One or two per judicial circuit	One per county
California	Santa Clara County and San Bernardino County are hosting regular elections. Alameda County has a special election. (For other counties, the state recently changed the timing of its elections to coincide with the presidential cycle.)	Santa Clara County and San Bernardino County are hosting regular elections. (For other counties, the state recently changed the timing of its elections to coincide with the presidential cycle.)
Colorado	No regularly scheduled election	One per county (except in Broomfield & Denver)
Connecticut	Not elected	There are no sheriffs
Delaware	No locally-elected prosecutors	One per county
Florida	There are elections in the 6th judicial circuit (special, Pasco and Pinellas) and 20th circuit (Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry, and Lee)	No regular election
Georgia	Seven circuits have regular elections this year. They are 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
Hawaii	No regularly scheduled election	Not elected (the sheriff’s department is a statewide force)
Idaho	No regularly scheduled election	No regularly scheduled election
Illinois	No regularly scheduled election	One per county
Indiana	One per judicial district (which are typically identical with a county)	One per county
Iowa	One per county (except for several prosecutors who serve two counties)	No regularly scheduled election
Kansas	No regularly scheduled election	No regularly scheduled election
Kentucky	No regularly scheduled election	One per county
Louisiana	One per district	No regularly scheduled election
Maine	One per district	One per county, except Franklin and Sagadahoc
Maryland	One per county/city	One per county/city
Massachusetts	One per district	No regularly scheduled election. (State sheriffs were last elected in 2022, but they serve six-year terms.)
Michigan	No regularly scheduled election	No regularly scheduled election
Minnesota	One per county	One per county
Mississippi	No regularly scheduled election	No regularly scheduled election
Missouri	One per county, though not in Jackson County or in the city of St. Louis.	No regularly scheduled election
Montana	One per county (except Anaconda-Deer Lodge, Butte-Silver Bow, Carter, Petroleum)	One per county (except Anaconda-Deer Lodge, Butte-Silver Bow)
Nebraska	One per county	One per county
Nevada	One per county/city	One per county/city
New Hampshire	One per county	One per county
New Jersey	Not elected	Counties that have regularly-scheduled elections are: Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, Mercer, and Union
New Mexico	No regularly scheduled election	One per county (except Lincoln County)
New York	Counties with regularly scheduled elections are: Cayuga, Franklin, Greene, Orleans, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Wyoming.	Counties with regularly scheduled elections are: Allegany, Broome, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Clinton, Delaware, Dutchess, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Montgomery, Oneida, Onondaga, Ontario, Orange, Oswego, Otsego, Tompkins, Ulster, Wyoming.
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
North Dakota	One per county (except Golden Valley, Steele)	One per county
Ohio	No regularly scheduled election	No regularly scheduled election
Oklahoma	One per judicial district	No regularly scheduled election
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.
Pennsylvania	No regularly scheduled election	No regularly scheduled election
Rhode Island	No locally-elected prosecutors	Not elected
South Carolina	Six 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)	Seven counties have regularly scheduled elections: Berkeley, Beaufort, Allendale, Chesterfield, Cherokee, Hampton, Kershaw.
South Dakota	No regularly scheduled election	One per county
Tennessee	No regularly-scheduled election. (Prosecutors were last elected in 2022, but they serve eight-year terms.)	One per county
Texas	Counties of more than 250,000 residents with regularly-scheduled elections are: Bexar, Brazoria, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hays, Hidalgo, Jefferson, Lubbock, McLennan, Smith, Tarrant Others are: 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. Also, there will be special elections in Angelina and Montgomery counties.	No regularly scheduled election
Utah	One per county	One per county
Vermont	One per county	One per county
Virginia	No regularly scheduled election	No regularly scheduled election
Washington	One per county	One per county (except King, Pierce, Snohomish, and Whatcom)
West Virginia	No regularly scheduled election	No regularly scheduled election
Wisconsin	No regularly scheduled election	One per county
Wyoming	One per county	One per county