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2 candidates are tracked for Story County Attorney on the November 3, 2026 ballot: Timothy C. Meals and Nikolas Pilcher. Candidate information follows official Story County election filings; verify with the official election office linked below.
Incumbent Democrat Timothy C. Meals ran unopposed in the June 2, 2026 primary (5,944 votes, 99.80%). No Republican filed for the primary ballot (write-in votes only); Republican Nikolas "Niko" Pilcher is reported as the party's November nominee, matching the county GOP's past practice of nominating by county convention when no candidate files by the deadline, per Ames-area press coverage and the county's official Election Summary Report.
Democratic · Incumbent
Meals was appointed Story County Attorney in February 2020 and elected to the office in November 2020, per the Ames Tribune. He holds a sociology degree from Iowa State University and a law degree from Drake University Law School, per the Ames Tribune. No campaign website or questionnaire response was found as of September 9, 2026; the official election filing is the only verifiable source for Timothy C. Meals.
Republican
Pilcher is a private attorney who served eight years in the U.S. Army, holds a bachelor's degree from Bradley University and a law degree from Southern Illinois University School of Law, and lives in Huxley, per the Ames Tribune and the Story County Republican Party. No campaign website or questionnaire response was found as of September 9, 2026; the official election filing is the only verifiable source for Nikolas Pilcher.