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The following table indicates party affiliation in the Commonwealth of Virginia for the individual offices of: Governor; Lieutenant Governor; Attorney General; It also indicates the historical composition of the collective: Senate; House of Delegates; State delegation to the United States Senate (individually)
The 163rd Virginia General Assembly, consisting of members who were elected in both the House and Senate elections in 2023, convened on January 10, 2024. Both elections were the first to be held under maps for both houses of the Virginia General Assembly which were approved by the Virginia Redistricting Commission and the Supreme Court of Virginia in 2021, which were the first in Virginia ...
A rump legislature is a legislature formed of part, usually a minority, of the legislators originally elected or appointed to office. The word "rump" normally refers to the back end of an animal; its use meaning "remnant" was first recorded in the context of the 17th-century Rump Parliament in England. Since 1649, the term "rump parliament" has ...
The 162nd Virginia General Assembly, consisting of members who were elected in both the House election in 2021 and the Senate election in 2019, convened on January 12, 2022. The legislature is the first since the 156th Assembly ended in 2012 to be of divided party control, with Republicans again controlling the House of Delegates and Democrats ...
Officially recognized parties in states are not guaranteed have ballot access, membership numbers of some parties with ballot access are not tracked, and vice versa. Not all of these parties are active, and not all states record voter registration by party. Boxes in gray mean that the specific party's registration is not reported.
Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr. ran the important Byrd Organization until the 1960s. After the American Civil War (1861–1865), Virginia was in political turmoil. 48 former counties now in West Virginia were gone, soon to be joined by two more. The Commonwealth of Virginia unsuccessfully appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Ireland-US Council [8] and the US-Ireland Alliance are organizations which encourage bilateral cooperation between the two countries. The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR) is an organization founded in 2005 by Niall O'Dowd , Ciaran Staunton, and Kelly Fincham that campaigns for reform of United States immigration law and for ...
The Clerk of the Senate, after the election of Senators, shall assign desks to the individual Senators with the Senators elected as members of the majority party in the Senate in the chamber area beginning at the north side of the chamber until all such desks have been assigned, and then the Senators elected as members of the minority party in ...