The Virginia House of Delegates is one of the two houses of the Virginia General Assembly,the other being the Senate of Virginia. It has 100 members elected for terms of two years;unlike most states,these elections take place during odd-numbered years. The House is presided over by the Speaker of the House,who is elected from among the House membership by the Delegates. The Speaker is usually a member of the majority party and,as Speaker,becomes the most powerful member of the House. 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. The House is divided into Democratic and Republican caucuses. In addition to the Speaker,there is a majority leader,majority whip,majority caucus chair,minority leader,minority whip,minority caucus chair,and the chairs of the several committees of the House.
The Senate of Virginia is the upper house of the Virginia General Assembly. The Senate is composed of 40 senators representing an equal number of single-member constituent districts. The Senate is presided over by the lieutenant governor of Virginia. Prior to the American War of Independence,the upper house of the General Assembly was represented by the Virginia Governor's Council,consisting of up to 12 executive counselors appointed by the colonial royal governor as advisers and jurists.
Brian Joseph Moran is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party. He served as Virginia Secretary of Public Safety from 2014 to 2022,and was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1996 until 2008,representing Northern Virginia's 46th district.
Walter Allen Stosch is an American politician in the Republican Party. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1983 until 1992,when he was elected to the Senate of Virginia. He was Majority leader 1998–2007,after which he was named Republican Leader Emeritus. He served as the President Pro Tempore of the Senate for his final term,except for a six-month period when Democrats controlled the chamber. He represented the 12th district,made up of parts of Hanover and Henrico Counties. In 2009,responding to the request of constituent Em Bowles Locker Alsop,Stosch sponsored a monument to Virginia women in Capitol Square,which became law in 2010,and was unveiled in October 2018.
Frank W. Wagner is an American politician. A Republican,he served in the Virginia House of Delegates 1992–2001,and was elected to the Senate of Virginia in a special election on December 19,2000. He represented the 7th district in Virginia Beach and Norfolk from 2001 until 2019. He was a member of the Commerce and Labor,General Laws and Technology,Rehabilitation and Social Services,and Transportation committees.
Randy Vulakovich is an American politician who served as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate for the 38th district from January 6,2015,to January 1,2019. He previously served in the 40th legislative district. He was elected in a special election on August 7,2012. Vulakovich was reelected to a full term in 2014 in the newly established 38th district. In May 2018,he lost re-nomination to that seat in the Republican primary to Ross commissioner Jeremy Shaffer.
William Creed Wampler Jr. is an American politician. A Republican,he was a member of the Senate of Virginia from 1988 to 2011. He represented the 40th district in the southwest corner of the state,which included Dickenson,Lee,Scott and Wise Counties and parts of Washington County,along with the cities of Bristol and Norton.
Christopher Todd Gilbert is an American politician and attorney. He previously served as the 57th Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates from 2022 to 2024. He has been a Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates since 2006,representing the 15th district in the Shenandoah Valley and Blue Ridge Mountains,made up of Page and Shenandoah Counties,plus parts of Rockingham and Warren Counties.
Timothy Douglas Hugo is an American businessman,military veteran,and Republican politician in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 2003 to 2020,representing the 40th district. Hugo was defeated for re-election in 2019 by Democrat Dan Helmer.
Jennifer Barton Boysko is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia. She represents the 38th district in the Virginia Senate. Previously,she represented the 86th district in the Virginia House of Delegates,which is located in Fairfax and Loudoun counties. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Nicholas J. Freitas is an American politician and social media influencer. A Republican,he has been a member of the Virginia House of Delegates since 2016. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2018,losing in the primary election to Corey Stewart. He was the Republican nominee in the 2020 election to represent Virginia's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives,which he narrowly lost to Abigail Spanberger,the incumbent Democratic congresswoman. Before entering politics,he served in the United States Army.
Michael P. Mullin,known as Mike Mullin,is a former assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Hampton and an American politician of the Democratic Party. From 2016 to 2023 he represented (part-time) the 93rd district in the Virginia House of Delegates. He resigned on November 7,2023.
Virginia's 40th Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Senate of Virginia. It has been represented by Republican Todd Pillion since 2020,succeeding retiring fellow Republican Charles William Carrico Sr. It is currently the most Republican-leaning district in the Virginia Senate.
Hala Sophia Ayala is an American politician who represented the 51st district in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2018 to 2022. She was the Democratic nominee in the 2021 Virginia lieutenant gubernatorial election,losing to Republican nominee Winsome Sears on November 2,2021. She was also a candidate for Virginia State Senate in the 33rd District,losing the Democratic primary to Jennifer Carroll Foy on June 20,2023.
John Joseph McGuire III is an American politician who is a member of the Virginia State Senate. He was elected to the newly redrawn 10th Senate district in 2023,coming out of a four-way primary with 63% of the vote and running unopposed in the general election. He was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2017,and represented the old 56th district which comprised areas to the North and West of Richmond,Virginia.
The 2019 Virginia House of Delegates election was held on Tuesday,November 5,2019,concurrently with the elections for the Senate of Virginia,to elect members to the 161st Virginia General Assembly. All 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates were up for election. It resulted in Democrats gaining 6 seats in the House of Delegates,and gaining control of both chambers of the General Assembly,marking the first time that Democrats held control of both legislative and executive branches in Virginia since 1993.
Suhas Subramanyam is an American lawyer and member of the Virginia Senate,representing the 32nd district.
William Creed Wampler III is an American attorney and politician from Abingdon,Virginia.
Clinton L. Jenkins is an American politician. A Democrat,he was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates,representing the 76th district from 2020 to 2024.
The 2023 Virginia Senate election was held on Tuesday,November 7,2023,concurrently with elections for the Virginia House of Delegates,to elect senators to all 40 seats in the Senate of Virginia for the 163rd and 164th Virginia Assembly. Nomination primaries held through the Department of Elections were held June 20,2023. These were the first elections held following redistricting as a result of the 2020 census.
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