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Virginia’s new potential congressional map would give Democrats a fighting chance to hang onto their current share of seven of the state’s 11 districts, but it erases the suburban Richmond ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia’s political lines underwent a change in late 2021 with redistricting, shifting voters into new congressional and state legislative districts.
The Virginia case involved 11 state House districts drawn by Republican lawmakers to ensure that at least 55% of the voters were African Americans. The federal district court ruled last year that ...
Virginia voters have quite literally been waiting for maps that reflected their interests since 1788, when Patrick Henry intentionally drew James Madison out of his congressional district to ...
The Virginia Supreme Court unanimously approved maps for new congressional and state legislative districts that will remain in place for the next decade. The state senate district map shows ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — With Virginia’s new congressional map set, eyes are now on potential swing districts for the 2022 midterms. Republicans need to net five seats in the U.S. House of ...
T he Supreme Court of Virginia unanimously approved maps establishing congressional and state legislative districts under the commonwealth’s new redistricting maps Dec. 28. This fell to the ...
RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — Virginia legislators and voting rights advocates spent Thursday morning reacting with a mix of praise and concern to draft redistricting maps released overnight by the state’s ...
The court’s decision allows the current maps to remain in place for next month’s elections, and it focuses on the state’s lone black-majority district, the 3rd Congressional District, which ...
A three-judge federal panel struck down Virginia’s state House of Delegates map Tuesday afternoon as unconstitutionally gerrymandered along racial lines. The 2-1 ruling ordered the state to come ...
Virginia election officials recently reassigned 482 voters to new congressional districts as the state continues to grapple with mapping errors that sowed confusion in several close General ...
The U.S. Supreme Court ordered a lower court to continue examining Virginia state legislative districts for racial gerrymandering. | John Shinkle/POLITICO By Kevin Robillard 03/01/2017 11:23 AM EST ...