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Elections · U.S. House · Virginia

2026 Virginia House race, District 2

Jen Kiggans (Republican), Elaine Luria (Democrat), Geral D. "Bishop" Staten (Independent) and J. Matt Baker (Independent) are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for U.S. House in Virginia District 2, as recorded September 21, 2026 from the Virginia Department of Elections.

The November ballot

Kiggans
$6.0M
Luria
$4.7M

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

Also in this race: Geral D. "Bishop" Staten (Independent) and J. Matt Baker (Independent).

Official candidate list: Virginia Department of Elections. 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

Jen Kiggans

Republican · Holds the seat now

First took office 2023 · Age 55

Discloses no individual stock trades.

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 Virginia

  • General electionNovember 3, 2026 

Register 11 days before, or same-day during early voting and on Election Day in person (same-day ballots are provisional).

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How they won the primary

Democratic primary

The primary · 41,936 votes

  • Elaine Luria Won: 80.3% 33,658
  • Nila Devanath: 16.4% 6,857
  • Bill Fleming: 2.0% 855
  • Patrick Mosolf: 1.3% 566

Primary results as recorded October 12, 2026, ordered by votes. Source: Virginia Department of Elections official Democratic primary results. A primary result is a recorded fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.

The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$11M
Outside money
$6.6M

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Kiggans$1M
Opposing Kiggans$3.7M
Supporting Luria$281K
Opposing Luria$1.6M

Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing. No outside money is on file for or against the other 2 names on this ballot.

Where each candidate's money comes from

13%$784KSmall donors$562K12%
37%$2.2MLarge donors$2.8M60%
21%$1.3MPACs$405K9%
<1%$5.5KParty$221<1%
--Self-funding$8K<1%
29%$1.7MOther$867K19%

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: Jen Kiggans $1.7M, Elaine Luria $867K.

Who is spending on this race

The largest groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

1 to 5 of 22 groups

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.

Not on the November ballot

10 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
788K
Median household income
$94K
Unemployment
4.2%
Living below the poverty line
8.5%
Without health insurance
6.1%

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

R+4 in 2024

  • Jen Kiggans Won: 50.7%
  • Missy Cotter Smasal: 46.9%

408,702 votes for candidates. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 2.4%. 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.

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