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Montgomery County, VA

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Fields below reflect the November 3, 2026 general election ballot as races are certified.

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U.S. House, Virginia District 9
2 candidates
Federal ▾
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Joy A. Powers
DEM
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Rural Healthcare: keeping care close to home
  • Agriculture & Farmland: protecting the land that feeds us
  • Addiction Recovery: treating addiction as healthcare, not crime
Campaign siteFull profile
H. Morgan Griffith portrait
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H. Morgan Griffith
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Defend Second Amendment rights
  • Support the right to life
  • Oppose EPA regulations he views as harmful to jobs
Key voting record
Voted yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the House 218-214 in July 2025. Supported
Voted yes on the Laken Riley Act, expanding federal detention of certain immigrants charged with theft or violent crimes, which passed the House 263-156 in January 2025. Supported
Voted yes on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the House 231-196 in September 2025. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
August 4 primary result: Joy A. Powers won the Democratic primary with 51.71 percent over Adam Grayson Murphy (36.37 percent), Douglas E. Crockett (11.92 percent), per the Virginia Department of Elections' official results. Joy A. Powers (Democratic), H. Morgan Griffith (Republican) meet on the November 3 ballot, per the Department of Elections' certified November federal candidate list (updated September 3, 2026). Virginia has no runoffs.
U.S. Senate
2 candidates
Federal ▾
Mark Warner portrait
MW
Mark Warner
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Mark Warner is Virginia's sitting U.S. senator, per the campaign site. He was the first person in his family to graduate from college, and his third business venture, a cell phone company, broke through, per the campaign site. He was elected governor of Virginia in 2001, chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee beginning in 2021 and is now its vice chairman, per the campaign site and the Senate's committee rosters. The campaign site says he wrote the CHIPS and Science Act.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Making Virginia affordable
  • Delivering for Virginians
  • Keeping Americans safe
Campaign Finance
$21,990,910 raised · top industries: Large donors giving $2,000+ (42% of receipts), Small-dollar donors under $200 (21% of receipts)
Key voting record
Voted no on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the Senate 50-50 in July 2025, with the vice president casting the tie-breaking vote. Opposed
Voted yes on the CHIPS and Science Act, funding domestic semiconductor manufacturing and scientific research, which cleared the Senate 64-33 in July 2022. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
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Bert Mizusawa
REP
Biography
Bert Mizusawa is a retired U.S. Army major general and a four-time combat veteran with 41 years in uniform, per the campaign site. He holds a law degree from Harvard, and he served as a Senate Armed Services Committee staff member, as a deputy under secretary of the Army, and as commander of the Combined Joint Interagency Task Force in Afghanistan, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Fiscal responsibility
  • Affordability
  • Defending our military
Campaign Finance
$376,213 raised · top industries: Small-dollar donors under $200 (28.5% of receipts), Large donors giving $2,000+ (14.2% of receipts), Candidate self-funding, contributions and loans combined (45.6% of receipts)
Campaign siteFull profile

Countywide races in Montgomery County

ZIP 24162 sits in Montgomery County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All Montgomery County races (3).

Commonwealth's Attorney, Montgomery County
1 candidate
County ▾
PR
Patrick R. Jensen
REP
Biography
Patrick R. Jensen, chief deputy commonwealth's attorney for Montgomery County since 2007, has served as acting commonwealth's attorney since Mary Pettitt's retirement on August 1, 2026, per Cardinal News. He is running in the November 2026 special election to fill the office permanently. No campaign website was found as of September 7, 2026.
Full profile
Why only one name?
Only one name is on the ballot for this office: no other candidate qualified. An unopposed candidate is elected unless a write-in outpolls them where write-ins are allowed, so this line still counts as a vote.
About this race
1 certified candidate for Commonwealth's Attorney, Montgomery County on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Virginia Department of Elections' certified local candidate list (updated September 3, 2026). Virginia local offices are nonpartisan on the ballot unless a candidate was nominated by a party; the number of seats filled and the district lines come from the locality's own ballot.
Sheriff, Montgomery County
2 candidates
County ▾
TA
Tim Andrew Brown
DEM
Biography
Tim Andrew Brown is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Sheriff, Montgomery County, per the Virginia Department of Elections' certified local candidate list. No campaign website was found as of September 7, 2026.
Full profile
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Robert G. Page
REP
Biography
Robert Page joined the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office in 2013 as a corrections officer and worked in the jail, civil process, court security, patrol, criminal warrants and as Chief Deputy, per the campaign site. He has served full-time on the U.S. Marshals Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force for six years, per the campaign site. He has been the county's interim sheriff since April 2026, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
From the campaign site
  • Public safety: keeping Montgomery County safe
  • Deputy mental health and wellness
  • Servant leadership
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
2 certified candidates for Sheriff, Montgomery County on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Virginia Department of Elections' certified local candidate list (updated September 3, 2026). Virginia local offices are nonpartisan on the ballot unless a candidate was nominated by a party; the number of seats filled and the district lines come from the locality's own ballot.

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