![Nine Young People on the Ballot in the Midterm Election](https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.youthradio.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/06154531/young-candidates-hero3.jpg)
Capping off a year of youth-led activism, it’s no surprise that in these midterms, young candidates are stirring up elections in some of the top races to watch in 2018.
Whether you’re a Democrat, Republican, or Libertarian, the message from these nine candidates — some as young as 19, none older than 26 — is: after that 18th birthday, there’s no such thing as too young to run.