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Owen Nicholas Carlson is running for U.S. Senate in Nebraska’s contested general election on Nov. 3, 2026. Carlson is listed with the label VET and is one of 11 candidates in the race.
Carlson’s record
Carlson has no biography on file. The record does not list details about Carlson’s work history, education, public service or previous campaigns.
Campaign finance figures are also not on file for Carlson. That means the record does not state how much the campaign has raised, how much it has spent or how much cash it has on hand. “Not on file” does not mean those amounts are zero.
Carlson has no documented policy positions on file. As a result, the record does not establish Carlson’s views on federal spending, taxes, agriculture, health care, immigration, national security or other issues handled by the U.S. Senate.
Candidates in the race
The general election field includes 11 candidates. Each candidate’s listed party or label is shown below.
- Owen Nicholas Carlson is listed with the label VET. Carlson has no biography, campaign finance figures or documented policy positions on file.
- Pete Ricketts is listed as a Republican and the incumbent. Ricketts has no biography, campaign finance figures or documented policy positions on file.
- Benjamin E. Sasse is listed as a Republican. Sasse has no biography, campaign finance figures or documented policy positions on file.
- Debra Leanne MS Axtell Schultz is listed as a Republican. Schultz has no biography, campaign finance figures or documented policy positions on file.
- Mac Stevens is listed as a Republican. Stevens has no biography, campaign finance figures or documented policy positions on file.
- Cindy Burbank is listed with the label DE. Burbank has no biography, campaign finance figures or documented policy positions on file.
- Edward Mr. Dunn is listed as a Republican. Dunn has no biography, campaign finance figures or documented policy positions on file.
- William Forbes is listed as a Democrat. Forbes has no biography, campaign finance figures or documented policy positions on file.
- Mike Marvin is listed as Other. Marvin has no biography, campaign finance figures or documented policy positions on file.
- Dan Osborn is listed as an Independent. Osborn has no biography, campaign finance figures or documented policy positions on file.
- Gavin Solomon is listed as a Republican. Solomon has no biography, campaign finance figures or documented policy positions on file.
What the labels establish
The party and other labels identify how each candidate is listed in the race. They do not, by themselves, establish a candidate’s position on a specific bill or public policy question.
The same distinction applies to the incumbent designation. Ricketts is identified as the incumbent, meaning he currently holds the seat. That designation does not describe his policy positions or those of any challenger.
No candidate in this field has fundraising, spending or cash-on-hand figures on file. The absence of figures prevents a financial comparison among the campaigns and should not be read as a report of zero campaign activity.
Election details
This contest is for a Nebraska seat in the U.S. Senate. It is a contested general election because more than one candidate is running. Election Day is Nov. 3, 2026.
The central process questions before Election Day are whether candidate records add biographies, campaign finance figures or documented positions, and how the final field appears on the ballot. Those records would give voters more information for comparing the candidates without assigning views that the candidates have not documented.
