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The United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, 2018 were held on November 6, 2018. Primary elections took place on June 12. [1]
United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, 2018 [2] | ||||||
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Party | Votes | Percentage | Seats Before | Seats After | +/– | |
Democratic | 1,867,061 | 56.36% | 4 | 7 | +3 | |
Republican | 1,408,701 | 42.52% | 7 | 4 | -3 | |
Libertarian | 13,995 | 0.42% | 0 | 0 | - | |
Independents/Write-In | 23,157 | 0.70% | 0 | 0 | - | |
Totals | 3,312,914 | 100.00% | 11 | 11 | — |
Republican Rob Wittman has represented Virginia's 1st congressional district since 2007. He was re-elected in 2016 with 60% of the vote. Wittman is unopposed for the Republican nomination.
Robert Joseph Wittman is the U.S. Representative for Virginia's 1st congressional district, serving since a special election in 2007. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district stretches from the fringes of the Washington suburbs to the Hampton Roads area. It is nicknamed "America's First District" because the site of Jamestown has traditionally been located within.
Vangie Williams defeated both Edwin Santana and John Suddarth in the Democratic primary with 39.97 percent of the vote. If elected she would be the first woman of color in history to represent the state of Virginia in Congress.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Vangie Williams | 11,008 | 39.97 | |
Democratic | Edwin Santana | 9,059 | 32.90 | |
Democratic | John Suddarth | 7,471 | 27.13 | |
Total votes | 27,538 | 100.0 |
Vangie Williams |
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Timothy Michael Kaine is an American attorney and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Virginia since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 38th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006 and 70th Governor of Virginia from 2006 to 2010. Kaine was the Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2016 election. Mark Robert Warner is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Virginia, a seat he was first elected to in 2008. He is a member of the Democratic Party and currently a Vice Chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus and the Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
John Robert Lewis is an American politician and civil rights leader. He is the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district, serving in his 17th term in the House, having served since 1987, and is the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation. His district includes three-quarters of Atlanta. Robert Cortez Scott is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Virginia's 3rd congressional district since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the dean of Virginia's congressional delegation. The district serves most of the majority-black precincts of Hampton Roads, including all of the independent cities of Franklin, Newport News and Portsmouth, parts of the independent cities of Chesapeake, Hampton, Norfolk and Suffolk and all of Isle of Wight County. Donald Sternoff Beyer Jr., is a Triestine-born American businessman, diplomat and politician who has served as the United States Representative for Virginia's 8th congressional district since 2015. The district is located in the heart of Northern Virginia and includes Alexandria, Falls Church and Arlington.
Ralph Shearer Northam is an American politician and physician serving as the 73rd Governor of Virginia since January 13, 2018. A pediatric neurologist by occupation, he was an officer in the U.S. Army Medical Corps from 1984 to 1992. Northam, a member of the Democratic Party, served as the 40th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 2014 to 2018 prior to winning the governorship against Republican nominee Ed Gillespie in the 2017 election. Mark Rankin Herring is an American lawyer who is the 47th and current Attorney General of Virginia. A Democrat, he previously served in the Senate of Virginia since a 2006 special election, representing the 33rd district, made up of parts of Fairfax and Loudoun counties.
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Rob Wittman (inc.) | 183,250 | 55.18 | |
Democratic | Vangie Williams | 148,464 | 44.70 | |
Write-ins | 387 | 0.12 | ||
Total votes | 332,101 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold |
Republican incumbent Scott Taylor is in a race targeted by the DCCC. This is one of only two GOP held seats that voted for Democrat Ralph Northam in 2017. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee supported Elaine Luria, a United States Naval Commander for the nomination. [8]
Roanoke Commonwealth's Attorney Donald Caldwell has been appointed as a special prosecutor to investigate claims that Taylor's aides forged signatures, including those of Delegate Glenn Davis and his wife, [9] on Shaun Brown's petitions to make the ballot as an independent candidate. Taylor had already cut ties with his campaign manager when these irregularities came to light and promised to cooperate with the investigation, and said that the irregularities in the petitions should have no bearing on Brown's right to be on the ballot. [10]
Shaun Brown submitted 2,163 petition signatures which actually went through the verification process. 1,030 of those were considered valid. [9] Democrats asked the Virginia State Board of Elections to remove Brown from the ballot for falling short of the 1,000 signatures required, [11] and have filed suit. [12] They have also asked Attorney General of Virginia Mark Herring to investigate. [13]
A review of the signatures also revealed that more than 50 Virginia Beach sheriff's employees signed petitions forms at work to get Brown on the ballot during the closing days of the petition drive, when petitioners were scrambling to meet the deadline. [14]
Brown was accused by federal prosecutors of lying to the Federal Election Commission about donating $700,000 to her campaign and bilking the government by falsifying the number of meals her nonprofit fed to needy children, but her trial—in which Brown testified in her own defense and was subjected to a lengthy cross-examination [15] —ended in a mistrial after the jury deadlocked 11-1. [16] A new trial has been set to begin on October 9 and run for seven days. [17]
In September, circuit judge Gregory Rupe ordered Brown off the ballot. Brown subsequently appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court but justices declined to hear her case. The Virginia Attorney General's office argued that it was too late for her to appear on the ballot. [18]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Elaine Luria | 17,552 | 62.33 | |
Democratic | Karen Mallard | 10,610 | 37.67 | |
Total votes | 28,162 | 100.0 |
Taylor was challenged in the Republican primary by former James City County Supervisor Mary Jones, who attacked Rep. Taylor for his moderate stances and because she believed he hasn’t backed President Donald Trump's proposals strongly enough. [20]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Scott Taylor (incumbent) | 28,515 | 76.05 | |
Republican | Mary Jones | 8,982 | 23.95 | |
Total votes | 37,497 | 100.0 |
Elaine Luria |
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Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Scott Taylor (R) | Elaine Luria (D) | Undecided |
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Change Research (D) | November 2–4, 2018 | 710 | – | 47% | 47% | 6% |
NYT Upshot/Siena College | October 18–22, 2018 | 508 | ± 4.6% | 45% | 42% | 13% |
Christopher Newport University | October 3–12, 2018 | 798 | ± 4.0% | 50% | 43% | 7% |
NYT Upshot/Siena College | September 26 – October 1, 2018 | 500 | ± 4.5% | 49% | 41% | 10% |
Change Research (D) | September 26–28, 2018 | 758 | – | 46% | 46% | – |
Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group (D-Luria) | September 5–8, 2018 | 404 | ± 5.0% | 43% | 51% | – |
Public Policy Polling (D) | April 16–17, 2018 | 609 | ± 4.0% | 48% | 42% | 10% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Democratic | Elaine Luria | 139,571 | 51.05 | |||
Republican | Scott Taylor (inc.) | 133,458 | 48.81 | |||
Write-ins | 371 | 0.14 | ||||
Total votes | 273,400 | 100.00 | ||||
Democratic gain from Republican | ||||||
Democratic incumbent Bobby Scott is running unopposed, [25] as no Republican candidates filed for this district.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Bobby Scott (inc.) | 198,615 | 91.22 | |
Write-ins | 19,107 | 8.78 | ||
Total votes | 217,772 | 100.00 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
After the 4th district was redrawn by the courts for the 2016 elections, Democratic incumbent Donald McEachin was elected and is now running unopposed for the Democratic nomination. [26]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Ryan McAdams | 17,513 | 72.57 | |
Republican | Shion Fenty | 6,621 | 27.43 | |
Total votes | 24,134 | 100.0 |
Ryan McAdams |
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Donald McEachin (inc.) | 187,642 | 62.58 | |
Republican | Ryan McAdams | 107,706 | 35.92 | |
Libertarian | Pete Wells | 4,233 | 1.41 | |
Write-ins | 273 | 0.09 | ||
Total votes | 299,854 | 100.00 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
On May 28, incumbent, Republican Tom Garrett Jr., announced that due to his struggles with alcoholism, he would not run for reelection. [29] Instead of a traditional primary to elect the Democratic and Republican nominees, party delegates voted to hold district conventions instead.
The Democratic convention was held on May 5, 2018. The party delegates chose Leslie Cockburn as the Democratic nominee. [30]
The Republican convention was held on June 2, 2018, less than one week after incumbent Tom Garrett Jr. announced he would not seek reelection. Denver Riggleman edged out Cynthia Dunbar, who had just lost the Republican nomination in the 6th district just weeks before, in the final round of voting to get the Republican nomination. [33]
Denver Riggleman (R) |
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Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Denver Riggleman (R) | Leslie Cockburn (D) | Undecided |
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NYT Upshot/Siena College | October 16–22, 2018 | 501 | ± 4.6% | 45% | 46% | 10% |
TargetPoint (R) | October 14–16, 2018 | 406 | – | 48% | 43% | – |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Denver Riggleman | 165,339 | 53.18 | |
Democratic | Leslie Cockburn | 145,040 | 46.65 | |
Write-ins | 547 | 0.18 | ||
Total votes | 310,926 | 100.0 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
The 6th district will be an open seat in 2018, after the Republican incumbent, Bob Goodlatte, representative from the 6th district since 1993, announced his retirement in November 2017. [36] [37]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jennifer Lewis | 8,202 | 47.67 | |
Democratic | Peter Volosin | 4,678 | 27.19 | |
Democratic | Charlotte Moore | 3,175 | 18.45 | |
Democratic | Sergio Coppola | 1,150 | 6.68 | |
Total votes | 17,205 | 100.0 |
Republican delegates decided to hold a party convention instead of the primary to choose their nominee. Eight Republicans ran in the Convention in this district, where State Delegate Ben Cline was chosen as the GOP Nominee.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Ben Cline | 167,957 | 59.69 | |
Democratic | Jennifer Lewis | 113,133 | 40.21 | |
Write-ins | 287 | 0.10 | ||
Total votes | 281,377 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
After Dave Brat upset the former House Majority leader, Eric Cantor, in 2014, Brat won reelection in 2016 with 57% of the vote. Helen Alli originally was going to run as a Democrat but failed to turn in enough signatures; she then was nominated by the Whigs but again failed to turn in enough signatures; and now she is running as a write-in candidate. [40]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Abigail Spanberger | 33,210 | 72.68 | |
Democratic | Daniel Ward | 12,483 | 27.32 | |
Total votes | 45,693 | 100.0 |
Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Dave Brat (R) | Abigail Spanberger (D) | Joe Walton (L) | Undecided |
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NYT Upshot/Siena College | October 30 – November 4, 2018 | 500 | ± 4.6% | 46% | 44% | 2% | 9% |
Christopher Newport University | October 18–27, 2018 | 871 | ± 4.2% | 45% | 46% | 4% | 3% |
Monmouth University | September 15–24, 2018 | 329 LV | ± 5.4% | 47% | 47% | <1% | 6% |
400 RV | ± 4.9% | 42% | 47% | 2% | 9% | ||
Normington, Petts & Associates (D) | September 18–20, 2018 | 400 | ± 4.9% | 47% | 47% | – | 6% |
NYT Upshot/Siena College | September 10–11, 2018 | 501 | ± 5.0% | 47% | 43% | – | 9% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Democratic | Abigail Spanberger | 176,079 | 50.34 | |||
Republican | Dave Brat (inc.) | 169,295 | 48.40 | |||
Libertarian | Joe Walton | 4,216 | 1.21 | |||
Write-ins | 155 | 0.06 | ||||
Total votes | 349,745 | 100.0 | ||||
Democratic gain from Republican | ||||||
In the 8th district, Democrat Don Beyer has served since the 2014 election. Beyer won reelection in 2016 with 68% of the vote.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Don Beyer (inc.) | 247,137 | 76.10 | |
Republican | Thomas Oh | 76,899 | 23.68 | |
Write-ins | 712 | 0.22 | ||
Total votes | 324,748 | 100.00 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
In the 9th district, Republican Morgan Griffith has two Democratic opponents, Anthony Flaccavento and Justin Santopietro, and a Whig opponent, Scott Blankenship, [46] in this strongly Republican district. [47]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Anthony Flaccavento | 10,756 | 78.64 | |
Democratic | Justin Santopietro | 2,921 | 21.36 | |
Total votes | 13,677 | 100.0 |
Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Morgan Griffith (R) | Anthony Flaccavento (D) | Other | Undecided |
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Thirty-Ninth Street Strategies (D-Flaccavento) | June 24–28, 2018 | 400 | ± 4.9% | 48% | 41% | 4% | 7% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Morgan Griffith (inc.) | 160,933 | 65.16 | |
Democratic | Anthony Flaccavento | 85,833 | 34.75 | |
Write-ins | 214 | 0.09 | ||
Total votes | 246,980 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
In the 10th district, six Democratic candidates, encouraged by the fact that Republican incumbent Barbara Comstock's district voted for Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election, 2016, submitted the required number of signatures to run for that seat. [49] Republicans believe, however, that given that Comstock is an excellent fundraiser and fierce campaigner, she will be able to keep the seat. [50] April polling is favorable to a generic Democrat against Comstock, although Comstock performs much better in polling when her name is on the ballot against a named Democratic opponent. [51]
Patriarchist libertarian Nathan Larson filed to run as an independent, [52] but then withdrew his candidacy on August 13 and endorsed Wexton, calling her "the accelerationist choice"; [53] Wexton, through a spokesman, declined the endorsement. [54] Comstock tweeted, "It is good news for all voters in the 10th District that Nathan Larson, a convicted felon who served time in prison for threatening to kill the President and is an admitted pedophile, an admitted rapist, white supremacist, and misogynist, is now off the ballot in the 10th Congressional District." [55]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Jennifer Wexton | 22,405 | 41.89 | |
Democratic | Alison Friedman | 12,283 | 22.96 | |
Democratic | Lindsey Davis Stover | 8,567 | 16.02 | |
Democratic | Dan Helmer | 6,712 | 12.55 | |
Democratic | Paul Pelletier | 2,010 | 3.76 | |
Democratic | Julia Biggins | 1,513 | 2.83 | |
Total votes | 53,490 | 100.0 |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Barbara Comstock (incumbent) | 28,287 | 60.70 | |
Republican | Shak Hill | 18,311 | 39.30 | |
Total votes | 46,598 | 100.0 |
Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size | Margin of error | Barbara Comstock (R) | Jennifer Wexton (D) | Other | Undecided |
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Washington Post/Schar School | October 25–28, 2018 | 446 | ± 6.5% | 43% | 54% | 1% | 2% |
Washington Post/Schar School | October 15–21, 2018 | 430 | ± 6.5% | 43% | 56% | – | 1% |
TargetPoint (R) | October 14–16, 2018 | 421 | – | 47% | 47% | – | – |
NYT Upshot/Siena College | October 11–15, 2018 | 484 | ± 4.8% | 41% | 48% | – | 11% |
Global Strategy Group (D) | October 7–9, 2018 | 400 | ± 4.9% | 39% | 49% | – | – |
McLaughlin & Associates (R-Comstock) | October 6–8, 2018 | 400 | ± 4.9% | 48% | 47% | – | 5% |
Washington Post/Schar School | September 19 – October 5, 2018 | 866 | ± 4.0% | 43% | 55% | – | 2% |
Christopher Newport University | September 23 – October 2, 2018 | 794 | ± 4.1% | 44% | 51% | – | 5% |
Monmouth University | September 26–30, 2018 | 374 | ± 5.1% | 44% | 50% | <1% | 5% |
Monmouth University | June 21–24, 2018 | 338 LV | ± 5.3% | 41% | 50% | 3% | 6% |
400 RV | ± 4.9% | 39% | 49% | 2% | 10% | ||
DCCC (D) | March 20–21, 2018 | 400 | – | 43% | 46% | – | – |
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Democratic | Jennifer Wexton | 206,356 | 56.11 | ||
Republican | Barbara Comstock (inc.) | 160,841 | 43.73 | ||
Write-ins | 598 | 0.16 | |||
Total votes | 367,795 | 100.00 | |||
Democratic gain from Republican |
In the 11th district, Democratic incumbent Gerry Connolly, who ran unopposed in 2016, has a Republican challenger, U.S. Army veteran Jeff Dove. Also running is Libertarian Stevan Porter. [65]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ||
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Democratic | Gerry Connolly (inc.) | 219,191 | 71.10 | ||
Republican | Jeff Dove | 83,023 | 26.93 | ||
Libertarian | Stevan Porter | 5,546 | 1.80 | ||
Write-ins | 506 | 0.16 | |||
Total votes | 308,266 | 100.00 | |||
Democratic hold |
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