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Party selects its nominee.
Current rolePhysician (OB/GYN)
PartyDemocratic
Political ideologyProgressive Democrat
LocationTexas
BackgroundPhysician (OB/GYN)
EducationLouisiana State University School of Medicine (M.D., 1993)
Notable personal detailsRichard Todd Ivey is a physician and Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Texas’ 9th Congressional District in the 2026 cycle. He is an OB/GYN in Houston and has worked with Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital. His medical training includes an M.D. from Louisiana State University School of Medicine and an OB/GYN residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Supports policies aimed at reducing costs for working families and criticizes recent tax cuts for the ultra‑rich; emphasizes shifting benefits of the economy toward workers rather than the well‑connected.
Supports strengthening and expanding the Affordable Care Act, increasing access and affordability of health care, expanding mental-health and substance-abuse services, and improving rural and preventive care access.
Supports a pathway to citizenship, opposes aggressive ICE raids targeting hardworking people and families, and emphasizes the value of diversity while protecting law‑abiding immigrants’ ability to pursue the American Dream.
Opposes Texas’s strict abortion bans and supports protecting doctors’ ability to provide abortion and emergency pregnancy care, while advocating legal clarity for medical exceptions. Emphasizes concerns that restrictive laws endanger pregnant patients and hamper clinicians’ ability to treat life‑threatening complications.
Supports action to combat a changing climate and to protect local air and water quality; calls for standing up against big polluters and addressing climate-related risks (flooding) in his district. Emphasizes policies to lower energy costs and federal oversight of the state power grid and incentives to improve housing/energy affordability.
Todd Ivey is being mentioned as part of the 2026 Texas midterm landscape, with the state’s primaries now underway. He was also among the districts targeted in NRCC Tax Day ads aimed at House Democrats, though the reporting does not give any specific new development about his race. Overall, the coverage suggests he is in a contested Democratic-held or open district that Republicans are trying to pressure ahead of the midterms.






Aggregation source: FiftyPlusOne
2026
LatestCycle 2026
Source: FEC
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