United States 2026 · Parties and candidates · House, Indiana 5
J.d. Ford
Result: Won · 51.7% Unofficial count as of 6 November 2026.
J.d. Ford’s FEC committees ran 2 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram from 1 page between 16 October 2026 and 23 October 2026. Meta reports $1.1–1.3K of spend. That makes J.d. Ford the 913th largest spender of the 1181 federal candidates with ads. Running for House, Indiana 5. Party: Democrats.
Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026.
2
ads on 1 page
$1.2K
reported spend, range $1.1–1.3K
100%
of spend on federal races
$600
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 2 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Victoria Spartz$1.2K
Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.
Topics
Spend by race: Federal 100%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
FEC committees
| FEC committee | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| NEIGHBORS TO ELECT J.D. FORD C00934505 | 2 | $1.2K |
The committees whose ads count for the candidate, as the FEC names them.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
I’m J.D. Ford, and I’m frustrated that everything costs too much, and politicians like Victoria Spartz promise to help, then sell us out to protect big corporations’ bottom lines. That’s why I’m running for Congress. I will: ✅ Always be transparent and do what’s best for you ✅ Lower costs ✅ Fight corruption in Washington Click below to learn more about how I plan to represent Indiana’s 5th District in Congress.
16 October 2026 · J.D. Ford for Congress · $700 – $799 · 100K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Throughout the 5th District, I know Hoosiers are fed up with Indiana becoming one of the friendliest states in the nation for data centers. 𝗦𝗼 𝗮𝗺 𝗜. In the State Senate, I wrote a bill to hold Big Tech accountable. It would have made Big Tech be transparent with its water and electricity usage, and let our communities decide if and when data centers get built. It had an amendment that would end the hundreds of millions of tax breaks. Unfortunately, Victoria Spartz’s friends in the Stateho
23 October 2026 · J.D. Ford for Congress · $400 – $499 · 80K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Pages that ran the ads
| Page | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| J.D. Ford for Congress | 2 | $1.2K |
Each name opens the page’s Vipima page, with its own figures and its link to Meta’s Ad Library.
Figures cover domestic political ads paid in dollars, from 4 May 2026. Spend is the sum of Meta’s range midpoints; impressions above one million are reported as “1M+”, so impression figures are floors. Each ad counts in the week its delivery started, with its lifetime spend at our last pull; ads still running before the vote are counted as of 31 October 2026.
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