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The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral United States Congress, which is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the term "African American" includes all individuals who identify with one or more nationalities or ethnic groups originating in any of the ...
Current U.S. representatives from Virginia District Member (Residence) [1] Party Incumbent since CPVI (2022) [2] District map 1st: Rob Wittman : Republican December 11, 2007 R+6: 2nd: Jen Kiggans (Virginia Beach) Republican January 3, 2023 R+2: 3rd: Bobby Scott (Newport News) Democratic January 3, 1993 D+17: 4th: Jennifer McClellan : Democratic
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. The list of names ...
The 1860 census allotted 11 seats to Virginia, but 3 were assigned to West Virginia, established in 1863. Virginia was left with 8 seats. [4] For most of this decade, however, Virginian representatives were not seated in Congress because of Virginia's secession in the Civil War. After January 26, 1870, Virginia was allowed to seat members.
Virginia's 8th congressional district from January 3, 2023. Virginia's 8th congressional district is a U.S. congressional district located just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. It comprises several populous cities and suburbs in Northern Virginia, including all of Alexandria, Arlington, and Falls Church, as well as parts of ...
The 5th district includes the majority of Southside Virginia, though it stretches as far as the Richmond suburbs. Within the district are the cities of Charlottesville, Danville, and Lynchburg. The district's first representative in Congress was James Madison, who defeated James Monroe in the district's first congressional election. Madison and ...
See a Map of the 2024 House of Representatives Race Results. Simmone Shah. November 6, 2024 at 9:31 AM. People line up to vote outside Allegiant Stadium, in Las Vegas, on Nov. 5, 2024. Credit ...
Map of congressional districts represented by African Americans in the 117th Congress (2021-2023). From 1910 to 1940, the Great Migration of black people from the rural South to Northern cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland began to produce black-majority Congressional districts in the North. In the North, black ...