Elections · U.S. House, District 9 · Virginia
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Raised for this seat
$85K
Through July 15, 2026
Cash on hand
$14K
Through July 15, 2026
On the November ballot
Powers faces Morgan Griffith for this seat on November 3, 2026.
The ballot as filed by the nominee source, recorded August 27, 2026, not a prediction. Minor-party and write-in filers are on the race page.
Where the money comes from
- Small donors
- 21%$18K
- Large donors
- 76%$65K
- PACs
- <1%$3
- Party
- --
- Self-funding
- 3%$3K
- Other
- --
Receipts reported through July 15, 2026. Source: FEC.
How to vote in Virginia
- General electionNovember 3, 2026In 10 weeks
Register 11 days before, or same-day during early voting and on Election Day in person (same-day ballots are provisional).
The district they want to represent
- People
- 780K
- Median household income
- $58K
- Unemployment
- 3.8%
- Living below the poverty line
- 16.3%
- Without health insurance
- 6.0%
U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate.
Against the field for this seat
Each campaign's reported receipts on one shared scale, in ballot order, not money order.
- Morgan Griffith$1.8M
- Adam Murphy$59K
- Joy Powersthis page$85K
Muted rows are campaigns not on the November ballot; their money is still their own filed record.
In their own words
What Powers's campaign says it would work on.
The priorities Powers's own campaign site lists, quoted as written there. They are what the campaign says. Nobody has voted on them.
- “Rural Healthcare”
- “Agriculture & Farmland”
- “Addiction Recovery”
- “Jobs and Industry”
- “Infrastructure and Broadband”
- “Affordable Living”
- “Food Security”
- “Education and Training”
- “Childcare & Workforce”
- “Veterans & Service Members”
Quoted from joyforva.com, read August 14, 2026. A campaign site changes; this is what it said on that date. Curia quotes these and does not check, rate or rank them.
Record in office
Powers has not held this office, so there is no federal voting record, no cosponsorships and no committee service to report.
That absence is not a position for or against anything; it is what a first federal campaign looks like in the public record.
Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Portrait: Campaign photo, campaign website (reference use, candidate's own published headshot). Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.