2026 race — Texas — 9th District
13 candidates have filed with the FEC for this seat. The seat is currently held by Al Green (D), who has not filed with the FEC for this cycle.
Who is running
Statutory candidates on file with the FEC. Challengers keep filing all cycle and primaries run into September, so this is a snapshot of who has filed — not a final ballot.
D Democratic (4)
- James Buford · FEC filings & money
- Leticia Gutierrez · FEC filings & money
- R. Todd Ivey · FEC filings & money
- Terry Virts · FEC filings & money
R Republican (8)
- Alexandra Mealer · FEC filings & money
- Briscoe Rowell Cain · FEC filings & money
- Crystal Sarmiento · FEC filings & money
- Dan Mims · FEC filings & money
- Dwayne Bradley Stovall · FEC filings & money
- Jaimy Blanco · FEC filings & money
- Steve Stockman · FEC filings & money
- Terry Lee Thain · FEC filings & money
I Independent / other (1)
- Roy Morales · FEC filings & money
How the current member has voted, by issue
Every roll call Al Green cast this Congress, grouped by the bill's official policy area (the Congressional Research Service subject assigned on congress.gov). These are votes, not stated positions — no stance is inferred from them. They have not filed for re-election this cycle, so this record belongs to the seat's current holder rather than to a candidate.
- NayH.R. 7008 — On Passage (Jul 2026)
- NoH.Res. 1438 — On Agreeing to the Resolution (Jul 2026)
- NoH.Res. 1423 — On Agreeing to the Resolution (Jul 2026)
- YeaH.Res. 1399 — On Agreeing to the Resolution (Jun 2026)
- NayH.Con.Res. 113 — On Agreeing to the Resolution (Jul 2026)
- NayH.R. 9770 — On Passage (Jul 2026)
- NayH.R. 8595 — On Passage (Jul 2026)
- NayH.R. 8646 — On Passage (Jun 2026)
- NayH.R. 5625 — On Passage (May 2026)
- NoH.R. 6260 — On Passage (May 2026)
- NayH.Con.Res. 96 — On Agreeing to the Resolution (May 2026)
- YeaH.Res. 1252 — On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree (May 2026)
Why challengers have no voting record here
Only people who have held the office have cast roll-call votes, so a voting record exists for the incumbent alone. We do not fill that gap with campaign-website summaries or third-party scorecards: deciding which vote counts as “the” vote on an issue is an editorial act, and two advocacy groups routinely produce opposite grades from the same record.
What is on the record for every candidate equally is money — who funds them, and who is spending independently for or against them. Each name above links to that candidate's FEC filings.
Last time this seat was contested (2024)
- GREEN (D) — 184,141 votes
184,141 ballots cast out of an estimated 445,425 eligible voters — 41% turnout.
Sources: FEC candidate filings (who is running), House Clerk and Senate roll-call records with congress.gov policy areas (the voting record), and MEDSL/MIT Election Lab official returns with Census citizen voting-age population (the last result). All public records.