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Following the 2010 census, legislators in the Virginia House (Republican-controlled) and the Virginia Senate (Democrat-controlled) proposed and approved redistricting maps for the state. Gov. Bob McDonnell, however, vetoed the changes April 15, criticizing the Senate plan as gerrymandering. The maps below show the current districts and the new ones that had been proposed.
To look up which lawmaker represents a House district, click here. For a Senate district, click here.
Current Virginia Senate districts
Democrats' proposal for Senate (vetoed)
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Current Virginia House districts
Republicans' proposal for House (vetoed)
More redistricting resources:
Virginia Division of Legislative Services, Redistricting
Virginia Public Access Project
Article archive on redistricting
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Fred Hudson, 2nd Vice-Chair of the Virginia Democratic Party, discusses redistricting and gerrymandering on the locally-produced Charlottesville, VA, politics interview program Politics Matters with host and producer Jan Madeleine Paynter: http://bit.ly/pm-hudson. The current program features Bob Gibson, Executive Director of the University of Virginia’s Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, discussing journalism and the media.
The General Assembly should be ashamed
The Virginia General Assembly should be ashamed of the districts they are proposing. This is one of the worst cases of gerrymandering you can find. Folks in Chesapeake should not be in the same district as those in Richmond and Petersburg. If they can't do any better than this, we need to elect representatives who will. And maybe while we are electing new representatives, we'll get some that will actually do something about the roads.
Would really like to see the
Would really like to see the NonPartisian, Community, Redistricting Plan
submitted by the award winning William & Mary Law Students as perhaps a
fair and honest approach.
Map Doesn't Work Right.
The map just doesn't work right. I have seen much of the world, but not what I was supposed to see.
The maps are useless
Pilot: simply slapping district numbers on a Google map doesn't tell us anything.
We've added links to look up legislators by district
We're also working on more detailed interactive maps, and a guide to the redistricting process. Look for that Sunday on PilotOnline and in Sunday's Virginian-Pilot.
Meredith Kruse
Military-State Editor
The Virginian-Pilot