Virginia's congressional districts

Virginia's congressional districts since 2013^[1]

Virginia is currently divided into 11 congressional districts, each represented by a member of the United States House of Representatives. The number of Virginia's districts remained unchanged after the 2010 Census.

Current districts and representatives 1
Apportionment 2
List of districts 3
- Current 3.1
- Former 3.2
Historical and present district boundaries 4
See also 5
References 6

Current districts and representatives

List of members of the Virginian United States House delegation, their terms, their district boundaries, and the districts' political rating according to the CPVI. The delegation has a total of 11 members, with 8 Republicans and 3 Democrats. The 7th district was most recently represented by Republican Eric Cantor, who resigned to become a chairman for Moelis & Company, a New York investment bank.^[2]

District	Representative	Party	CPVI	Incumbency
1st	Rob Wittman (R-Manassas)	Republican	R+8	December 11, 2007 – present
2nd	Scott Rigell (R-Virginia Beach)	Republican	R+2	January 3, 2011 – present
3rd	Robert Scott (D-Richmond)	Democratic	D+27	January 3, 1993 – present
4th	Randy Forbes (R-Chesapeake)	Republican	R+4	June 19, 2001 – present
5th	Robert Hurt (R-Chatham)	Republican	R+5	January 3, 2011 – present
6th	Bob Goodlatte (R-Roanoke)	Republican	R+12	January 3, 1993 – present
7th	Dave Brat (R (Glen Allen)	Republican	R+10	November 4, 2014 – present
8th	Don Beyer (D-Alexandria)	Democratic	D+16	January 3, 2015 – present
9th	Salem)	Republican	R+15	January 3, 2011 – present
10th	Barbara Comstock (R-McLean)	Republican	R+2	January 3, 2015 – present
11th	Gerry Connolly (D-Arlington)	Democratic	D+10	January 3, 2009 – present

Apportionment

Elections held in the year of a census use the apportionment determined by the previous census.

1789	1790	1800
10^[3]	19	22

1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	1870	1880	1890	1900
23	22	21	15	13	11	9^[4]	10	10	10

1910	1920	1930	1940	1950	1960	1970	1980	1990	2000
10	10	9	9	10	10	10	10	11	11

2010
11

List of districts

Current

Congressional representation of Virginia as of the 113th United States Congress, with seats held by Republicans in red and Democrats in blue.

1st district pop. 747,797^[5]
2nd district pop. 721,969^[6]
3rd district pop. 751,694^[7]
4th district pop. 741,349^[8]
5th district pop. 726,296^[9]
6th district pop. 737,755^[10]
7th district pop. 738,355^[11]
8th district pop. 767,596^[12]
9th district pop. 723,791^[13]
10th district pop. 758,321^[14]
11th district pop. 770,944^[15]

Former

12th district, obsolete since 1860 census
13th district, obsolete since 1860 census
14th district, obsolete since 1850 census
15th district, obsolete since 1850 census
16th district, obsolete since 1840 census
17th district, obsolete since 1840 census
18th district, obsolete since 1840 census
19th district, obsolete since 1840 census
20th district, obsolete since 1840 census
21st district, obsolete since 1840 census
22nd district, obsolete since 1830 census
23rd district, obsolete since 1820 census
At-Large district, obsolete since 1935

Historical and present district boundaries

Table of United States congressional district boundary maps in the State of Virginia, presented chronologically.^[16] All redistricting events that took place in Virginia between 1973 and 2013 are shown.

Year	Statewide map	Norfolk highlight
1973 – 1982
1983 – 1992
1993 – 1994
1995 – 1998
1999 – 2002
2003 – 2013
Since 2013

References

^ "The national atlas". nationalatlas.gov. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
^ "Moelis & Company Press Release (Sept 2, 2014)". Retrieved 19 September 2014.
^ Represents apportionment assigned by the U.S. Constitution in 1789 until the first U.S. Census.
^ West Virginia was formed out of portions of Virginia in 1863.
^ US Census. "My Congressional District (estimates)". US Census. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
^ US Census. "My Congressional District (estimates)". US Census. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
^ US Census. "My Congressional District (estimates)". US Census. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
^ US Census. "My Congressional District (estimates)". US Census. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
^ US Census. "My Congressional District (estimates)". US Census. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
^ US Census. "My Congressional District (estimates)". US Census. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
^ US Census. "My Congressional District (estimates)". US Census. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
^ US Census. "My Congressional District (estimates)". US Census. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
^ US Census. "My Congressional District (estimates)". US Census. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
^ US Census. "My Congressional District (estimates)". US Census. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
^ US Census. "My Congressional District (estimates)". US Census. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
^ "Digital Boundary Definitions of United States Congressional Districts, 1789-2012.". Retrieved October 18, 2014.

Virginia's congressional districts

All districts At-large 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 The 12th-23rd and at-large districts are obsolete See also Virginia's past and present Representatives, Senators, and Delegations Recent U.S. House elections in Virginia: 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 All U.S. districts Apportionment Redistricting Gerrymandering

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Virginia's congressional districts