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One candidate is tracked for Milwaukee County Sheriff on the November 3, 2026 ballot: Denita Ball. Candidate information follows official Milwaukee County election filings; verify with the official election office linked below.
August 11 primary result: Denita R. Ball won the Democratic nomination with 119,025 votes (99.46 percent) against scattered write-ins (651 votes), all 521 precincts reporting, per the Milwaukee County Election Commission's unofficial primary summary. No Republican or other-party candidate filed for the office, per the Milwaukee County Election Commission's April 14, 2026 official Notice of Election (which lists only the incumbents Ball and Anna Maria Hodges as the two county officers to be elected) and contemporaneous news coverage reporting no opposing candidate had filed by the June 1, 2026 filing deadline; Ball is unopposed on the November 3 ballot.
Democratic · Incumbent
Denita Ball is a 20-plus-year veteran of the Milwaukee Police Department and former sheriff's office deputy chief who has served as Milwaukee County Sheriff since being appointed in October 2022, per Spectrum News 1; she is the first woman and first Black woman to hold the office, per WISN. She is seeking a second full term in 2026. No campaign website or questionnaire response was found as of September 7, 2026.