US Midterms 2026
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Lynne Walz, a former teacher and realtor who held a Nebraska Legislature seat from 2017 to 2025, is the Democratic nominee for Nebraska governor in 2026.
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Lynne Walz, a Democrat and former Nebraska state senator, is running for governor and is emphasizing cross-party appeal to govern Nebraskans rather than Washington politics.
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Lynne Walz and Ben Steffen, the Democratic gubernatorial ticket, spoke to voters in Kearney about Nebraska’s budget shortfall, rising costs, and strategies for economic development.
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Lynne Marie Walz (née Shallberg) was born on June 18, 1963, in Fremont, Nebraska. She finished Arlington High School in 1981 and earned a B.A. in elementary education at Midland Lutheran College in 1994.
She taught in Fremont Public Schools and at Archbishop Bergan High School, and works as a realtor with Don Peterson and Associates. Before her election to the legislature she was a member of the Fremont Bergan school board and led the Fremont Board of Realtors as president.
She married in 1986 and has three children.
Walz won District 15 in the Nebraska Legislature, an area centered on Fremont, in 2016, unseating incumbent David Schnoor by taking 51% of the vote. In 2018 she ran for lieutenant governor as the running mate of Bob Krist, another state senator, on a ticket that received 41% of the vote and lost.
She won a second legislative term on November 3, 2020, defeating David Rogers with 59.6%.
Her committee work covered education, natural resources, and health and human services, and in 2021 her colleagues elected her chair of the Education Committee over incumbent Mike Groene by a 25 to 23 secret ballot. Term limits ended her legislative service in 2025.
Walz set up an exploratory committee for a governor's race in November 2025. In the May 12, 2026 Democratic primary she took 91% of the vote to become the nominee. Her opponent in the November 3 general election is Republican Governor Jim Pillen, who is seeking a second term after taking 76% in his own primary.
