Chip Dicks

• Lawyer
• politician
• lobbyist

Chip Dicks
Official portrait, 1988
Member of the VirginiaHouseofDelegates from the 66th district
In office January 12, 1983 –January 10, 1990

John Gaudry "Chip" Dicks III (born May 22, 1951) is an American lobbyist and former Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates, serving from 1983 to 1990. He was defeated for reelection in 1989 by Republican Kirk Cox. ^[1]

Electoral history

Date	Election	Candidate	Party	Votes	%
Virginia House of Delegates, 66th district
Nov 2, 1982 [2]	General	John G. Dicks, III	Democratic	6,953	50.37
		Robert E. Russell	Republican	6,851	49.63
		Write Ins		0	0.00
		Single-member districts created per ruling in Cosner v. Dalton
Nov 8, 1983 [3]	General	John G. Dicks, III	Democratic	7,777	62.11
		Judy S. Tap	Republican	4,739	37.84
		Write Ins		6	0.05
Nov 5, 1985 [4]	General	John G. Dicks, III	Democratic	11,492	99.90
		Write Ins		11	0.10
Nov 3, 1987 [5]	General	John G. Dicks, III	Democratic	13,567	99.85
		Write Ins		20	0.15
Nov 7, 1989 [6]	General	M. Kirkland Cox	Republican	10,460	52.47
		John G. Dicks, III	Democratic	9,468	47.49
		Write Ins		8	0.04

Notes

1. In the 1981 case Cosner v. Dalton, a challenge to the General Assembly's decennial apportionment plan, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that the multi-member districts drawn by the legislature violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; while allowing that year's state house elections to proceed, as planned, they ordered that those elected serve a one-year term only and that new elections be held in 1982 under a court-approved redistricting scheme. Russell, a Republican, was elected in 1981 to represent the 34th district, alongside George W. Jones and John Watkins. In 1982, he won his party's nomination for the newly established 66th district seat but lost to Dicks.

References

1. "Virginia Apartment Management Association's Redbook Volume 12" (PDF). vamaonline.net. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 2, 2018.
2. "Virginia Elections Database » 1982 House of Delegates General Election District 66". Virginia Department of Elections. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
3. "Virginia Elections Database » 1983 House of Delegates General Election District 66". Virginia Department of Elections. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
4. "Virginia Elections Database » 1985 House of Delegates General Election District 66". Virginia Department of Elections. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
5. "Virginia Elections Database » 1987 House of Delegates General Election District 66". Virginia Department of Elections. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
6. "Virginia Elections Database » 1989 House of Delegates General Election District 66". Virginia Department of Elections. Retrieved February 9, 2018.

External links

• Chip Dicks at The Virginia Elections and State Elected Officials Database Project, 1776-2007