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The following is a list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the Commonwealth of Virginia ordered by District number. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Virginia.
Virginia is allotted 11 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives; currently, 6 seats are held by Democrats and 5 seats are held by Republicans. The current dean of the Virginia delegation is Representative Bobby Scott (VA-3) , having served in the House since 1993.
It passed with a two-thirds majority of 27 to 12 in the Virginia Senate, and was referred to committee in the House of Delegates. [12] In November 2020, Virginia's ballot question #1, a constitutional amendment, moved the power to draw legislative districts to a 16-member bipartisan commission made up of eight legislators and eight citizens ...
(The Center Square) – Virginia has three new congressmen following the swearing-in ceremonies for the 119th Congress held at the Capitol in Washington on Friday. Two Democrats and one Republican ...
Rep.-elect John McGuire (R-Va.-5) Date of Birth / Aug. 24, 1968 Residence / Goochland County, Va. Occupation / Small business owner, SEAL Team PT Inc. Family / Married to wife Tracy with five ...
Virginia voters on Tuesday elected Democrat Jennifer McClellan, a veteran state legislator from Richmond, to fill an open seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, where she will make history as ...
The House shares legislative power with the Senate, the upper house of the General Assembly. The House of Delegates is the modern-day successor to the colonial House of Burgesses, which first met at Jamestown in 1619. It is the first and oldest continuous English-Speaking representative legislative assembly in the Western Hemisphere. [1]
The 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia were held on November 5, 2024, to elect the U.S. representatives from the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia, one from each of the state's eleven congressional districts.