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2026 candidates we're tracking in VA-9
Joy A. Powers
Top priorities
- Expanding rural hospitals, mental health services and the health care workforce
- Lowering costs by holding corporations accountable and building affordable housing
- Supporting teachers, modernizing classrooms and expanding job training
Per the campaign site.
About Joy A. Powers
Powers is a fourth-generation cattle farmer and small business owner from Bedford County who previously ran her family's farm equipment dealership, per her campaign site and Cardinal News. Her campaign site says she adopted a son through foster care and organizes her platform around a HOME plan covering health care, opportunity, market affordability and education.
H. Morgan Griffith
Top priorities
- Defend Second Amendment rights
- Support the right to life
- Oppose EPA regulations he views as harmful to jobs
Per the campaign site.
About H. Morgan Griffith
Griffith grew up in Salem, Virginia, graduated from Emory & Henry College and attended Washington and Lee University School of Law, per the campaign site. He practiced law in southwest Virginia and served in the Virginia House of Delegates before his election to Congress in 2010, per the campaign site.
About this race
Virginia's 9th Congressional District elects one member of the U.S. House of Representatives to a two-year term. Every House seat in the country is on the ballot in 2026. The Virginia primary is Tuesday, August 4, 2026, and the general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026.