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Virginia House race, District 7

Eugene Vindman holds this seat and is running to keep it against Doug Ollivant.

The November ballot

Vindman
$12M
Ollivant
$251K

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

General-election ballot as recorded August 27, 2026. Not a prediction.

The seat

Eugene Vindman

Democrat · Holds the seat now

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 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).

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How they won the primary

Republican primary

The primary · 24,026 votes

  • Doug OllivantWon56.6%13,594
  • Phillip Harding30.6%7,356
  • Ricky Smithers12.8%3,076

Primary results as recorded August 27, 2026, in the canvass's own published order. Via Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), which cites each state's canvass. A primary result is a filed fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.

The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$17M
Outside money
$91K

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Vindman$91K
Opposing Vindman-
Supporting Ollivant-
Opposing Ollivant-

Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing.

Where each candidate's money comes from

52%$6.5MSmall donors$29K12%
38%$4.7MLarge donors$215K85%
7%$818KPACs$7.3K3%
2%$300KOther$0<1%

Small donors give under $200; 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.

Who is spending on this race

The 3 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

21 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
807K
Median household income
$114K
Unemployment
4.6%
Living below the poverty line
7.3%
Without health insurance
8.2%

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

  • Eugene S. VindmanWon51.2%
  • Derrick M. Anderson48.5%

397,299 votes for candidates. 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; money figures carry their own coverage dates. Dataset built 2026-08-27. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.