Virginia state lawmakers are required to live in the district they represent, as well as in any district they may be seeking to represent
Virginia state lawmakers are required to live in the district they represent, as well as in any district they might be seeking to represent. If they move out of their district, the state constitution says they are out of office. Those requirements, combined with political maps that took effect this year, have created a headache for some candidates.
The 91st District is strongly Democratic and includes parts of Chesapeake and Portsmouth. The once-a-decade redistricting process that adjusts each state's political maps to account for population shifts was handled this year by a pair of independent experts, with sign-off granted by the Supreme Court of Virginia. The maps were drawn without regard to protecting incumbents, which left many Assembly members doubled or tripled up in districts.
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