Party: Republican

Fierro prioritizes community safety [2].

Fierro prioritizes educational quality [2].

Fierro is concerned about high taxes and affordability [2].

Purves has stated that most campaign spending is unnecessary and that large campaign budgets are “perpetuated by large donors who want to control elected officials” [5].

Purves plans on donating the chairman’s 38 percent pay raise ($38,283) to the Bethany House for women and children seeking refuge from abuse and trauma [1].

Purves supports the 12-step program as a means to overcome fentanyl addiction [1].

Purves is against the current rate of increase in real estate taxes and wants to prevent raising restaurant taxes. Purves is in favor of repealing collective bargaining [1].

Purves advocates for the input of residents in zoning decisions [1].

Purves wants to hold the school board accountable for a 27-point drop in the county’s average SAT score, calculated going from 2018 to 2022 [1]. He is also against Family Life Education (FLE) [5]. Purves is interested in closing the minority student achievement gap [6].

According to The South Lakes Sentinel, Purves wants to implement the Bible and the 10 Commandments in school. He supports teaching history, not social studies, as he is against a “whole world” approach to learning. He wrote, “Public schools are graduating ‘socialists’, or as the Fairfax School Board puts it, ‘global citizens,” and has stated that progressive schools gave students dyslexia [11].

Purves wants to end drop boxes and ballot harvesting [1].

Purves does not support spending tax money to make Fairfax County carbon-neutral and believes efforts are unnecessary [1].

Purves is against gun control measures [5].

Purves is against the Equal Rights Amendment [5].

Purves sees faith as a means of improving mental health [1].

Purves does not support abortion [5].

Elliot wants to reduce taxes and expenses [1].

Elliot wants to support educators through adequate pay and listening to their input. He also would like to include parents in their child’s education decisions [1].

Elliot supports reducing carbon emissions and environmental impacts in the development process, as well as helping the tree canopy thrive by leaving natural areas alone and designing communities with natural resource preservation in mind [4].

Elliot supports bettering community gardens, incentivizing urban agriculture-related innovation, and using nonprofits to help solve food insecurity [4].

Elliot wants to ensure more affordable housing choices for all and more opportunities for home ownership [4].

Elliot wants to increase the police force and pay officers appropriately [1].

Elliott does not support increased funding for public transport unless it comes with a reduction in current expenses. However, he does support making roads safer for cyclists and pedestrians [2, 3, 4].

Kramer believes that the Democratic party’s dominance in the district has lead to excessive spending, inefficiency, and even cronyism as he argues that the fully Democratic Essex County Board of Commissioners lacks a check on their power and spending from Republicans in the state [2]. In addition, Kramer believes that excessive taxation alongside excessive bureaucracy has muddled effective policies for the Board. Indeed, he argues that utilities, school boards, and city government can share services such that the government is more effective and less costly [3]. 

As a former worker in the private sector, Kraemer believes that he has experience in supporting business and working around excessive regulation. Alongside excessive taxation, Kramer will more closely review bid specifications from businesses to support economic growth [4]

Hayden wants to lower the tax rate and trim excess spending from the county budget [1]. He wants to eliminate the tax burden on the middle class through conforming Virginia tax law to federal tax law or ensuring that state taxpayers do not need to mimic deductions on federal tax returns [4].

Hayden wants to ensure that Fairfax County Public Schools has enough money to let its students achieve academic excellence. Additionally, he wants to increase academic rigor and support teachers, and he does not want to change school boundary lines [1, 3, 5].

Hayden does not want to decriminalize marijuana [4].

Hayden supports congressional term limits [6].

Hayden wants to hire more police and improve public safety [1].

Hayden is pro-life. He wants to keep the current abortion restrictions, namely that abortions are not allowed past the second trimester, with the exception of when the mother’s life is at risk [2, 3, 4, 5, 7].

Hayden does not support the Equal Rights Amendment [2, 3, 4, 5, 7].