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Virginia's 9th congressional district from January 3, 2023. Virginia's ninth congressional district is a United States congressional district in the Commonwealth of Virginia, covering much of the southwestern part of the state. The 9th is Virginia's second-largest district in area, covering 9,113.87 [4] [5] square miles (slightly larger than ...
Table of United States congressional district boundary maps in the State of Virginia, are presented chronologically below for the most recent iterations following the redistricting of the 1960s, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that congressional and state legislative districts had to satisfy the one man, one vote criteria for equal ...
9th district: 1789–1863, 1873–1933, 1935–present; 10th district: 1789–1863, 1885–1933, 1953–present; 11th district: 1793–1863, 1993–present; 12th district: 1793–1863 (obsolete since the 1863 move to West Virginia) 13th district: 1793–1863 (obsolete since the 1863 move to West Virginia)
District 9 is based primarily in the City of Richmond, stretching to also include all of Charles City County and parts of Hanover County and Henrico County. [3]The district overlaps with Virginia's 1st and 4th congressional districts, and with the 55th, 68th, 69th, 70th, 71st, 72nd, 73rd, and 74th districts of the Virginia House of Delegates.
Democrat Jim Moran, who had represented Virginia's 8th congressional district since 1991, was re-elected in 2012 over Republican Jay Patrick Murray with 65% of the vote. On January 15, 2014, Moran announced that he would retire from Congress, rather than run for re-election.
Howard Morgan Griffith (born March 15, 1958) is an American lawyer and politician who has been the U.S. representative for Virginia's 9th congressional district since 2011. The district covers most of Southwest Virginia, including the New River Valley and the Virginia side of the Tri-Cities. He is a member of the Republican Party and the ...
In October 2013, three voters from Virginia's Third Congressional District filed a lawsuit challenging Governor Bob McDonnell's 2012 congressional redistricting plan. The plantiffs argued that the map violated the Constitution by concentrating Black voters disproportionately within the district, a practice known as racial gerrymandering .
English: This image shows the precinct level election results for the 2018 United States House of Representatives election in Virginia's 9th congressional district. Data and shapefile from VEST. Data and shapefile from VEST.