The November ballot
Raised so far, filed with the FEC
Also in this race: Justin Filip (Green).
Official candidate list: Oregon Secretary of State. Faces and bars are the campaigns that hold the seat or have $25,000 raised or outside spending on file; being outside that group is a filing fact, not a mark. Not a prediction.
The seat
Val Hoyle
Democrat · Holds the seat now
First took office 2023 · Age 62
From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.
How to vote in Oregon
- General electionNovember 3, 2026
Register 21 days before the election.
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How they won the primary
The primary · 91,685 votes
- Val Hoyle Won: 75.1% 68,900
- Melissa Bird: 21.7% 19,850
- Daniel Bahlen: 2.5% 2,259
The total includes 676 write-in or scattered votes not listed by candidate.
The primary · 68,435 votes
- Monique DeSpain Won: 86.6% 59,232
- Stefan Strek: 12.4% 8,507
The total includes 696 write-in or scattered votes not listed by candidate.
Primary results as recorded October 12, 2026, ordered by votes. Source: Oregon Secretary of State official Abstract of Votes, May 19, 2026 primary. A primary result is a recorded fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.
The money on this race
- Raised by candidates
- $2M
- Outside money
- $592K
Outside money, for and against
Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing. No outside money is on file for or against the other name on this ballot.
Where each candidate's money comes from
Small donors give $200 or less; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.
Other includes money transferred in from committees the candidate authorized, such as a joint fundraising committee, which reports its own donors to the FEC: Monique DeSpain $305K.
Who is spending on this race
The largest groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.
Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.
Not on the November ballot
4 filedPrimary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.
The district
Census context- People
- 710K
- Median household income
- $69K
- Unemployment
- 6.4%
- Living below the poverty line
- 15.9%
- Without health insurance
- 5.7%
U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate.
How this seat voted last time
D+8 in 2024
- Val Hoyle Won: 51.7%
- Monique DeSpain: 43.9%
378,765 votes for candidates. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 4.4%. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.
Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.
Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are each campaign's latest FEC report, ending between June 30, 2026 and July 15, 2026. Outside money is the FEC's processed total of independent expenditures plus the 24- and 48-hour reports filed since each group's latest regular report. It covers this two-year cycle, the same as the candidate totals. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.