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23009

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King William County, VA

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Fields below reflect the November 3, 2026 general election ballot as races are certified.

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U.S. House, Virginia District 1
2 candidates
Federal ▾
SL
Shannon L. Taylor
DEM
Biography
Taylor has served as Henrico County Commonwealth's Attorney for 14 years and was the first woman elected to that office in 2011, per her campaign site. Her campaign site says she has tried thousands of cases involving violent crime, drug trafficking and domestic abuse, and that she created victim support programs and an opioid task force. Virginia Mercury also identifies her as the sitting Henrico Commonwealth's Attorney.
Top Priorities
  • Lowering costs and growing the economy through job creation in energy and infrastructure
  • Cleaning up crime and corruption, including banning insider stock trading by members of Congress
  • Protecting Medicare and Social Security and lowering prescription drug costs
Per the campaign site.
Campaign siteFull profile
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Robert J. "Rob" Wittman
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
Wittman spent 26 years in Virginia state government as an environmental health specialist with the Department of Health's Division of Shellfish Sanitation, per the campaign site. He studied biology at Virginia Tech, earned a master's in public health from the University of North Carolina and a Ph.D. in public policy from Virginia Commonwealth University, per the campaign site. He served on Montross Town Council, as mayor, and on the Westmoreland County Board of Supervisors before his election to the Virginia House of Delegates and then Congress in 2007, per the campaign site.
Top Priorities
  • Rebuilding the military
  • Increasing access to broadband
  • Improving access to a 21st century education for children
Per the campaign site.
Key voting record
Voted yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the House 218-214 in July 2025. Supported
Voted yes on the Laken Riley Act, expanding federal detention of certain immigrants charged with theft or violent crimes, which passed the House 263-156 in January 2025. Supported
Voted yes on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the House 231-196 in September 2025. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
August 4 primary result: Shannon L. Taylor won the Democratic primary with 52.82 percent over Salaam Bhatti (19.87 percent), Jason S. Knapp (9.94 percent), Mel E. Tull, III (4.31 percent), Elizabeth Dempsey Beggs (7.19 percent), Ericka W. Kopp (2.83 percent), Tim S. Cywinski (3.03 percent), per the Virginia Department of Elections' official results. Shannon L. Taylor (Democratic), Robert J. "Rob" Wittman (Republican) meet on the November 3 ballot, per the Department of Elections' certified November federal candidate list (updated September 3, 2026). Virginia has no runoffs.
U.S. Senate
2 candidates
Federal ▾
Mark Warner portrait
MW
Mark Warner
DEM INCUMBENT
Biography
Mark Warner is Virginia's incumbent U.S. senator and the Democratic nominee for a fourth term in 2026. A former governor and technology entrepreneur who co-founded the company that became Nextel, he is the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and co-authored the CHIPS and Science Act. He drew no Democratic challenger, so Virginia held no Democratic Senate contest on August 4; he faces Republican Bert Mizusawa on November 3.
Top Priorities
  • Lead on national security as Intelligence Committee vice chairman
  • Boost American technology and manufacturing, building on the CHIPS Act
  • Protect health care, veterans, and federal workers in Virginia
Campaign Finance
$21,990,910 raised · top industries: Large donors giving $2,000+ (42% of receipts), Small-dollar donors under $200 (21% of receipts)
Key voting record
Opposed 2025 Republican tax and spending package alongside every Senate Democrat. Opposed
Co-authored and supported the 2022 law funding domestic semiconductor manufacturing. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
Bert Mizusawa portrait
BM
Bert Mizusawa
REP
Biography
Bert Mizusawa is a retired U.S. Army major general and attorney who won Virginia's August 4 Republican U.S. Senate nomination with 51.5% of the vote, per unofficial returns from the Virginia Department of Elections. He graduated first in his 1979 West Point class and holds the Silver Star for leading a defector to safety under fire during the 1984 Panmunjom firefight in the Korean DMZ, per his campaign materials. He later earned a Harvard Law degree, practiced law, served as a Senate Armed Services Committee staff member and as a deputy under secretary of the Army, and commanded a joint interagency task force in Afghanistan. He faces Democratic incumbent Mark Warner on November 3.
Top Priorities
  • Bring excessive federal spending under control and focus government on core functions
  • Simplify the tax code with fewer brackets and larger standard deductions
  • Bring new nuclear power online to cut household energy costs
Campaign Finance
$376,213 raised · top industries: Small-dollar donors under $200 (28.5% of receipts), Large donors giving $2,000+ (14.2% of receipts), Candidate self-funding, contributions and loans combined (45.6% of receipts)
Campaign siteFull profile

ZIP 23009 sits in King William County, per the Census crosswalk; see the King William County page for its local races.

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