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Elections · U.S. Senate · Virginia

2026 Virginia Senate race

Mark Warner (Democrat) and Bert Mizusawa (Republican) are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for U.S. Senate in Virginia, as recorded September 21, 2026 from the Virginia Department of Elections.

The November ballot

Warner
$25M
Mizusawa
$419K

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

Official candidate list: Virginia Department of Elections. Not a prediction.

The seat

Mark Warner

Democrat · Holds the seat now

First took office 2009 · Age 71

118
Trades disclosed
$66M
Estimated volume
3
Committee overlaps
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, 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

Republican primary

The primary · 241,353 votes

  • Bert Mizusawa Won: 51.5% 124,271
  • David Williams: 28.9% 69,725
  • Kim Farington: 19.6% 47,357

Primary results as recorded October 11, 2026, ordered by votes. Source: Virginia Department of Elections official Republican 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
$26M
Outside money
$161K

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Warner$161K
Opposing Warner-
Supporting Mizusawa-
Opposing Mizusawa-

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

Where each candidate's money comes from

14%$3.5MSmall donors$123K29%
40%$10MLarge donors$99K24%
14%$3.4MPACs$5K1%
--Self-funding$171K41%
32%$8.1MOther$21K5%

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: Mark Warner $7.3M.

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

11 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.

How this seat voted last time

D+12 in 2020

  • Mark Warner Won: 56.0%
  • Daniel M. Gade: 43.9%

4,405,087 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. Candidate totals are each campaign's latest FEC report, ending between July 15, 2026 and September 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 each candidate's own campaign: the years since their previous federal election, up to the six their totals cover. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.