United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, 2022
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The U.S. House of Representatives elections in Virginia were on November 8, 2022. Voters elected 11 candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's 11 U.S. House districts. The primary was scheduled for June 21, 2022. The filing deadline was April 7, 2022.
In Virginia, political parties decide for themselves whether to nominate their candidates via primary or convention. Two Democratic congressional district committees chose to hold conventions after no candidates filed for the district primaries and the primaries were canceled.[1] A Democratic convention for District 6 was scheduled for June 11, 2022, and a Democratic convention for District 9 was scheduled for May 21, 2022.[2][3] Four Republican congressional district committees elected to nominate candidates outside of the statewide primary.[4] Republican conventions took place in District 5 and District 8 on May 21, 2022.[5][6] A Republican firehouse primary was held in District 10 on May 21, 2022.[7] Republicans in District 11 held a firehouse primary on May 7, 2022.[8]
Partisan breakdown
| Members of the U.S. House from Virginia -- Partisan Breakdown | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 2022 | After the 2022 Election | |
| Democratic Party | 7 | 5 | |
| Republican Party | 4 | 5 | |
| Vacant | 0 | 1[9] | |
| Total | 11 | 11 | |
Candidates
District 1
General election candidates
- Robert J. Wittman (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Herb Jones (Democratic Party)
- David Bruce Foster (Independent)
Did not make the ballot:
- Austin Nichols (Independent)
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Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
Did not make the ballot:
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Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Robert J. Wittman (Incumbent) ✔
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District 2
General election candidates
- Elaine Luria (Incumbent) (Democratic Party)
- Jennifer Kiggans (Republican Party) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
- Garry Hubbard (Green Party)
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This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Elaine Luria (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
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District 3
General election candidates
- Robert C. Scott (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Terry Namkung (Republican Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- JaPharii Jones (Independent)
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This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Robert C. Scott (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
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District 4
General election candidates
- Aston Donald McEachin (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Leon Benjamin Sr. (Republican Party)
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This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Aston Donald McEachin (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
Did not make the ballot:
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District 5
General election candidates
- Bob Good (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Joshua Throneburg (Democratic Party)
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This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
Did not make the ballot:
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District 6
General election candidates
- Benjamin Lee Cline (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Jennifer Lewis (Democratic Party)
Did not make the ballot:
- Danny LeBeau (Independent)
Democratic primary candidates
The Democratic Party primary was canceled.
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
- Benjamin Lee Cline (Incumbent) ✔
- Merritt Hale
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This convention was canceled and this candidate advanced:
District 7
General election candidates
- Abigail Spanberger (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Yesli Vega (Republican Party)
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Abigail Spanberger (Incumbent) ✔
Republican primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
- Gary Adkins
- Gary Barve
- John Castorani
- Amanda Chase
- Craig Ennis
- Taylor Keeney
- John McGuire
- Michael Monteforte
- Tina Ramirez
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District 8
General election candidates
- Donald Sternoff Beyer Jr. (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Karina Lipsman (Republican Party)
- Teddy Fikre (Independent)
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- Donald Sternoff Beyer Jr. (Incumbent) ✔
- Victoria Virasingh
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District 9
General election candidates
- H. Morgan Griffith (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Taysha DeVaughan (Democratic Party)
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The Democratic Party primary was canceled.
Did not make the ballot:
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This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- H. Morgan Griffith (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
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This convention was canceled and this candidate advanced:
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District 10
General election candidates
- Jennifer Wexton (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Hung Cao (Republican Party)
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This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Jennifer Wexton (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
Republican primary candidates
- John Beatty
- Dave Beckwith
- Hung Cao ✔
- Mike Clancy
- Theresa Coates Ellis
- John Henley
- Jeanine Lawson
- Caleb Max
- Jeff Mayhugh
- Brandon Michon
- Brooke Taylor
Did not make the ballot:
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District 11
General election candidates
- Gerald Edward Connolly (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- James Myles (Republican Party)
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This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Gerald Edward Connolly (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
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General election race ratings
- See also: Race rating definitions and methods
Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:
- Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
- Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
- Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.[10]
- Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.
Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.[11][12][13]
Click the following links to see the race ratings in each of the state's U.S. House districts:
- Virginia's 1st Congressional District
- Virginia's 2nd Congressional District
- Virginia's 3rd Congressional District
- Virginia's 4th Congressional District
- Virginia's 5th Congressional District
- Virginia's 6th Congressional District
- Virginia's 7th Congressional District
- Virginia's 8th Congressional District
- Virginia's 9th Congressional District
- Virginia's 10th Congressional District
- Virginia's 11th Congressional District
Ballot access
For information on candidate ballot access requirements in Virginia, click here.
Election analysis
Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.
- District maps - A map of the state's districts before and after redistricting.
- Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2022 U.S. House elections in the state.
- Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
- State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.
District map
Below were the district maps in use at the time of the election, enacted as part of the 2020 redistricting cycle, compared to the maps in place before the election.
Virginia Congressional Districts
until January 2, 2023
Click a district to compare boundaries.
Virginia Congressional Districts
starting January 3, 2023
Click a district to compare boundaries.
Competitiveness
This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Virginia.
| Virginia U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2022 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office | Districts/ offices |
Seats | Open seats | Candidates | Possible primaries | Contested Democratic primaries | Contested Republican primaries | % of contested primaries | Incumbents in contested primaries | % of incumbents in contested primaries | ||||
| 2022 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 33 | 16[14] | 1 | 4 | 31.3% | 2 | 18.2% | ||||
| 2020 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 31 | 15[15] | 4 | 2 | 42.9% | 2 | 18.2% | ||||
| 2018 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 37 | 17[16] | 6 | 3 | 52.9% | 2 | 20.0% | ||||
| 2016 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 29 | 20[17] | 1 | 4 | 25.0% | 2 | 22.2% | ||||
| 2014 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 32 | 20[18] | 1 | 3 | 20.0% | 2 | 22.2% | ||||
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Virginia in 2022. Information below was calculated on June 7, 2022, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Thirty-three candidates filed to run for Virginia's 11 U.S. House districts, including 12 Democrats and 21 Republicans. That's three candidates per district, more than the 2.36 candidates per district in 2020 and less than the 4.09 in 2018.
This was the first election to take place under new district lines following the 2020 census. Virginia was apportioned 11 districts, the same number it was apportioned after the 2010 census.
All 11 incumbents filed to run for re-election, meaning there were no open seats this year for the first time since 2012.
There were five contested primaries — one Democratic and four Republican — this year. That's the fewest contested primaries since 2014, when four primaries were contested.
Two incumbents — Rep. Ben Cline (R) from the 6th district and Rep. Don Beyer (D) from the 8th district — faced primary challengers, the same number as every year since 2014, except for 2016, when only one incumbent faced a primary challenger.
Republican and Democratic candidates filed to run in all 11 districts, so no seats were guaranteed to either party this year. Seven candidates, including incumbent Abigail Spanberger (D), filed to run in the 7th district, the most candidates who ran in a district that held primaries this year.
Presidential elections
As a result of redistricting following the 2020 census, many district boundaries changed. As a result, analysis of the presidential vote in each of these new districts is not yet available. Once that analysis is available, it will be published here.
Virginia presidential election results (1900-2020)
- 17 Democratic wins
- 14 Republican wins
| Year | 1900 | 1904 | 1908 | 1912 | 1916 | 1920 | 1924 | 1928 | 1932 | 1936 | 1940 | 1944 | 1948 | 1952 | 1956 | 1960 | 1964 | 1968 | 1972 | 1976 | 1980 | 1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 | 2004 | 2008 | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winning Party | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D |
State party control
Congressional delegation
The table below displays the partisan composition of Virginia's congressional delegation as of November 2022.
| Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Virginia, November 2022 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | U.S. Senate | U.S. House | Total |
| Democratic | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| Republican | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Independent | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vacancies | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 11 | 13 |
State executive
The table below displays the officeholders in Virginia's top four state executive offices as of November 2022.
| State executive officials in Virginia, November 2022 | |
|---|---|
| Office | Officeholder |
| Governor | Glenn Youngkin
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| Lieutenant Governor | Winsome Earle-Sears
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| Secretary of State | Kay Coles James
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| Attorney General | Jason Miyares
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State legislature
The tables below highlight the partisan composition of the Virginia General Assembly as of November 2022.
Virginia State Senate
| Party | As of November 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 21 | |
| Republican Party | 19 | |
| Vacancies | 0 | |
| Total | 40 | |
Virginia House of Delegates
| Party | As of November 2022 | |
|---|---|---|
| Democratic Party | 47 | |
| Republican Party | 52 | |
| Vacancies | 1 | |
| Total | 100 | |
Trifecta control
As of November 2022, Virginia was a divided government, with Republicans controlling the governorship and a majority in the house and Democrats controlling a majority in the state senate. The table below displays the historical trifecta status of the state.
Virginia Party Control: 1992-2022
Four years of Democratic trifectas • Four years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
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| Governor | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R |
| Senate | D | D | D | D | S | S | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | R | R | D | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D |
| House | D | D | D | D | D | D | S | S | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | R |
Redistricting following the 2020 census
The Virginia Supreme Court unanimously approved district maps for the Virginia House of Delegates and Virginia State Senate on December 28, 2021.[19] Democratic and Republican consultants submitted statewide map proposals for consideration to the Virginia Redistricting Commission on September 18, 2021.[20] The commission had reviewed earlier maps on August 31, 2021, that were focused solely on suburbs in northern Virginia that were drawn from scratch and did not consider legislative incumbents’ home addresses in keeping with earlier commission decisions.[21][22] After the commission missed its deadline for approving map proposals and the Virginia Supreme Court assumed authority over the process, the two special masters selected by the court released proposals for House and Senate districts on December 8, 2021.[23]These maps took effect for Virginia's 2023 legislative elections.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Code of Virginia, "§ 24.2-526. Primary not to be held when less than two candidates declare," accessed May 4, 2020
- ↑ Virginia Sixth District Democratic Committee of Virginia, "Call to Convention Congressional Nomination 2022," accessed May 20, 2022
- ↑ Floyd County Democratic Committee, "Caucus to nominate for Congress," accessed May 20, 2022
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections, "2022 June Primaries Order and Offices," March 9, 2022
- ↑ Virginia 5th District Republican Committee, "2022 5th District Convention," accessed March 17, 2022
- ↑ Virginia's 8th District Republican Committee, "Announcing the 2022 8th District Convention," February 13, 2022
- ↑ Fairfax Republican Party, "10th Congressional District Convention – 2022 Info," accessed March 17, 2022
- ↑ Fairfax Republican Party, "11th Congressional District Convention – 2022 Info," accessed March 17, 2022
- ↑ Representative Donald McEachin (D) won re-election but passed away on November 28, 2022.
- ↑ Inside Elections also uses Tilt ratings to indicate an even smaller advantage and greater competitiveness.
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Nathan Gonzalez," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Kyle Kondik," April 19, 2018
- ↑ Amee LaTour, "Email correspondence with Charlie Cook," April 22, 2018
- ↑ Six district parties chose to hold nominating conventions or caucuses instead of primaries. Those are not included in the total for number of possible primaries.
- ↑ Seven district parties chose to hold nominating conventions or caucuses instead of primaries. Those are not included in the total for number of possible primaries.
- ↑ Five district parties chose to hold nominating conventions or caucuses instead of primaries. Those are not included in the total for number of possible primaries.
- ↑ Two district parties chose to hold nominating conventions or caucuses instead of primaries. Those are not included in the total number of possible primaries.
- ↑ Two district parties chose to hold nominating conventions or caucuses instead of primaries. Those are not included in the total number of possible primaries.
- ↑ 13News Now, "Virginia has new voting maps after redistricting process finishes," December 30, 2021
- ↑ ABC 7, "Virginia bipartisan redistricting panel starts off with partisan maps," September 20, 2021
- ↑ El Paso Inc., "First redistricting map drafts leave some lawmakers unhappy," September 2, 2021
- ↑ Virginia Mercury, "Virginia’s Redistricting Commission has its first draft maps. They look… normal?" September 2, 2021
- ↑ Associated Press, "Proposed congressional maps give Dems an edge in Virginia," December 9, 2021
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