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2026 Oregon House race, District 5

Janelle Bynum (Democrat), Patti Adair (Republican) and Andrea Townsend (Green) are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for U.S. House in Oregon District 5, as recorded September 21, 2026 from the Oregon Secretary of State.

The November ballot

Bynum
$3.8M
Adair
$424K

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

Also in this race: Andrea Townsend (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

Janelle Bynum

Democrat · Holds the seat now

First took office 2025 · Age 51

Discloses no individual stock trades.

Has not cosponsored a bill that would ban it

From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.

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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 · 85,713 votes

  • Janelle Bynum Won: 82.0% 70,294
  • Zeva Rosenbaum: 17.4% 14,951

The total includes 468 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
$4.2M
Outside money
$1M

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Bynum$1M
Opposing Bynum-
Supporting Adair-
Opposing Adair-

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

13%$476KSmall donors$103K24%
45%$1.7MLarge donors$309K73%
30%$1.1MPACs$3.8K<1%
--Self-funding$7.1K2%
12%$448KOther$709<1%

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: Janelle Bynum $437K.

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 filed

Primary 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
715K
Median household income
$93K
Unemployment
4.6%
Living below the poverty line
9.3%
Without health insurance
5.3%

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+3 in 2024

  • Janelle Bynum Won: 47.7%
  • Lori Chavez-Deremer: 45.0%

401,293 votes for candidates. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 7.3%. 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.

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Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are reported to the FEC through June 30, 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.