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Election Day is November 3. Delegate Stacey Plaskett, in the seat since 2015, chose to run for Governor of the Virgin Islands instead — she is the Democratic gubernatorial nominee — leaving her delegate seat open. The nominees are Democrat Janelle Sarauw and independent Shelley Moorhead. This research located no sourced campaign platform for either nominee, no FEC figures for either, and no polling. An honest article says exactly that, and makes no endorsement on an empty file. Read what is verified, and see why.
How the Virgin Islands got here
Plaskett (D) has been delegate since 2015, first elected in 2014 with 90.7%; she served as a House manager in the second Trump impeachment trial, the first non-voting House member to do so (her biography compilation). She "originally filed paperwork to run for re-election, but instead chose to run for governor of the Virgin Islands in 2026," announcing in April 2026; she is the Democratic gubernatorial nominee with running mate Milton E. Potter (2026 USVI House election compilation; 2026 USVI general election compilation). Her gubernatorial campaign claims "over $24 billion delivered" to the territory as delegate — a campaign claim, labeled as such (Plaskett/Potter campaign site). The delegate roster — Janelle Sarauw (D) and Shelley Moorhead (Independent) — is confirmed by the 2026 USVI general election and USVI House election compilations; primaries were August 1, 2026. The Elections System of the Virgin Islands' official 2026 candidate listing is the territorial filing source; its delegate entries were not individually extracted in this research pass, a gap we name. Structural fact only: the seat has been held by a Democrat continuously under Plaskett since 2015, and the territory has elected a Democrat in 23 of its delegate elections since 1972 (USVI at-large district compilation). That is history, not a rating, and no polling or rating for this race was located.
Janelle Sarauw (Democratic)
Sarauw is the Democratic nominee for delegate in the November 3, 2026 general election (2026 USVI general election compilation). Her prior service as a Virgin Islands territorial senator (2016–2023 tenure) is widely known but was not re-sourced in this research pass; we print it as unverified and do not build a record section on it. No sourced 2026 campaign platform for Sarauw was located in this research. Under no-source-no-claim, that is the whole of what we can print: a nominee, a party, and a record gap with her name on our research, not on her.
Shelley Moorhead (Independent)
Moorhead is the independent nominee (2026 USVI House election compilation). No record, platform, or prior-office information for Moorhead was located in the sources searched this pass — a named gap, not an implied negative. An independent candidacy against a territory's dominant party is a fact; what it stands for is, on the located record, unsourced.
OUR CALL
LiberalMind makes no endorsement in the U.S. Virgin Islands delegate race.
Our endorsement is earned with diligence, and diligence requires a record. This research — conducted to the same standard as every other race in this series — located no sourced platform for either nominee, no FEC figures for either, and one biographical item (Sarauw's Senate service) that it could not re-source and therefore does not print as fact. Endorsing on that file would be inventing depth that is not there, which this series does not do. Virgin Islands voters have two nominees whose cases, on the verified record available to us, have not been made in sources we can cite; the fills this file needs — the Elections System's delegate filings, both campaigns' FEC pages, and one territorial news profile for each nominee — are named in our report as pre-print pulls. If those records land before Election Day, this article will be updated with a dated note, as every article in this series is a living document through November 3. Until then: no call, honestly stated.
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Sources
- 2026 United States Virgin Islands general election compilation; 2026 United States House of Representatives election in the United States Virgin Islands compilation — the Sarauw/Moorhead roster, the August 1 primaries, and Plaskett's decision to run for governor
- Stacey Plaskett biography compilation — delegate since 2015, first elected 2014 with 90.7%, the impeachment-manager first
- Plaskett/Potter campaign site — the "over $24 billion delivered" figure, printed as a campaign claim
- United States Virgin Islands at-large congressional district compilation — the Democrat-in-23-of-the-delegate-elections structural fact
- Elections System of the Virgin Islands, official 2026 candidate listing (vivote.gov) — the territorial filing source, located; delegate entries not individually extracted this pass, a gap named in the article
- Standing check: no pedophile-association material meeting the proven standard was located for any candidate on this ballot
Result pending. No verified call (Associated Press or official) as of November 4, 2026. This page will be updated when the race is called or certified. The original article above is unchanged.
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