Virginia’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger is leading Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears by 9 points in a recent poll, down from 12 points in July.

Spanberger has 49% support among registered Virginia voters compared to Earle-Sears’s 40% support, according to a Sept. 9 poll released by Virginia Commonwealth University’s L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs. Two months prior, Earle-Sears had 37% support. Spanberger’s percentage remains unchanged.