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All 11 seats in the commonwealth's U.S. House of Representatives delegation were on the ballot this season. With Virginia's polls closed, unofficial results will tentatively answer the question: Who won?
Note: Election results are unofficial until they are certified by the state.
1st Congressional District
Republican incumbent Rep. Rob Wittman won re-election on Tuesday. Wittman was first elected to the U.S. House in 2007. The Associated Press declared Wittman the winner at 10:57 p.m.
He defeated Democrat Leslie Mehta, an attorney who previously served as the legal director of the ACLU of Virginia.
The Republican-leaning district spans Richmond-area suburbs and parts of the Tidewater region.
3rd Congressional District
Democratic Rep. Bobby Scott won re-election in Virginia's 3rd Congressional District, The Associated Press has declared, defeating Republican Challenger John Sitka.
Scott became Virginia's first Black congressman since Reconstruction when he was first elected in 1992. Before that, he served in the state's House of Delegates and worked as an attorney.
AP declared Scott the winner at 9:22 p.m. EST.
4th Congressional District
Democratic Rep. Jennifer McClellan won re-election to a U.S. House seat representing Virginia on Tuesday, defeating Republican challenger Bill Moher. The Associated Press declared McClellan the winner at 10:55 p.m. Moher has not formally conceded.
McClellan became the first Black woman to represent Virginia in Congress in March 2023 when she won a special election for the seat held by Democratic Rep. Donald McEachin, who died weeks after being elected to a fourth term.
The 4th Congressional District stretches from Richmond south to the border with North Carolina. Prior to joining Congress, McClellan was a longtime state lawmaker in Virginia's General Assembly. Moher is an entrepreneur as well as an investor and an adviser.
5th Congressional District
Republican John McGuire won election to a U.S. House seat representing Virginia on Tuesday, holding the seat for his party. McGuire, a state senator and former Navy SEAL, defeated Democrat Gloria Witt, a political newcomer and the owner of an executive coaching business.
McGuire became the Republican nominee for the 5th District after narrowly ousting incumbent Rep. Bob Good in a primary race last June. In a recount of the primary results, election officials said McGuire defeated Good by fewer than 375 votes out of nearly 63,000 cast.
Good supporters mounted a controversial write-in campaign for the former House Freedom Caucus chairman in the months leading up to Election Day.
The Associated Press declared McGuire the winner at 10:52 p.m. EST.
6th Congressional District
Republican Rep. Ben Cline has won a fourth term representing Virginia's 6th Congressional District, The Associated Press has declared.
AP called the race for Cline, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Cline opposed the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential victory, supported the Life at Conception Act and endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican primaries.
He raised about $1 million in his campaign — more than five times as much as his Democratic challenger, Ken Mitchell.
8th Congressional District
Democratic Rep. Don Beyer has won re-election in Virginia's 8th Congressional District, The Associated Press has declared.
Beyer, a former lieutenant governor and ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, defeated Republican Jerry Torres and independents David Kennedy and Bentley Foster Hensel to win his sixth term in Congress.
AP called the race for Beyer shortly before 8:15 p.m. Tuesday.
Beyer, who serves on the House Ways and Means committee and the Joint Economic Committee, has represented the heavily blue district — which covers Arlington County, part of Fairfax County, and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church — since 2015.
The congressman, who is focused on climate policy and emerging technology, began pursuing a master’s degree in machine learning at George Mason University in 2022 with the goal of making better policy on artificial intelligence.
Beyer’s academic endeavors lend some irony to one of this election cycle’s stranger campaign stories. Irritated by Beyer’s decision to skip a debate, Hensel — a software engineer who ran to highlight the “lack of tech comprehension” in Congress — created DonBot, an AI version of Beyer developed from Beyer’s public speeches and statements that Hensel and Kennedy debated instead.
9th Congressional District
Republican Rep. Morgan Griffith has won re-election in Virginia's 9th Congressional District, The Associated Press has declared.
Griffith won an eighth term by defeating Democrat Karen Baker, a lawyer and former administrative law judge for the Social Security Administration. He has served in public office since 1994, when he was first elected to the state Legislature.
AP called the race for Griffith at 9:09 p.m. EST.
10th Congressional District
Virginia state Sen. Suhas Subramanyam carried the 10th Congressional District, an open seat centered in Loudoun County, defeating Republican tech executive and conservative commentator Mike Clancy, according to unofficial results.
Subramanyam will make history as Virginia’s first Indian-American congressman, elected to represent a rapidly-growing district in the D.C. exurbs that is home to 65,000 South Asian residents, according to the Indian-American Impact Fund (which supported his candidacy).
On the campaign trail, Subramanyam often talked about his family’s history, beginning when his parents immigrated through Dulles Airport — which is in the district he will now represent in Congress. (Subramanyam grew up in Houston, Texas.)
"Tonight is sort of a testament to what's possible in America when we embrace people of different backgrounds and cultures, no matter where they come from and who they love, anything is possible,” he told the crowd of supporters at his campaign watch party.
Subramanyam was introduced by sitting Rep. Jennifer Wexton, who is resigning after a diagnosis of supranuclear palsy, a progressive neurological disease. Wexton, who endorsed Subramanyam in a tough primary, said she trusted him to carry on her legacy — and she thanked the 10th District Democrats who helped her flip the seat blue in 2018.
“I just want to say thank you to all of you here, to the many, many Virginians who supported my campaigns and the people of VA-10 for the trust you placed in me as your representative in Congress for the past six years,” Wexton said through an AI program that models her voice. “There's no one I trust more to serve this district, to carry on my legacy and build on the progress we've made than Suhas Subrahmanyam.”
Subramanyam is no stranger to historic firsts: His 2019 election to Virginia’s House of Delegates made him the first Indian-American and Hindu elected to the General Assembly.
“We've seen incredible growth in the South Asian American community here in the DMV over the last two decades,” said Chintan Patel, the executive director of Indian-American Impact Fund, which supports South Asian candidates for office. “Finally, representation is starting to catch up.”
Patel said the 10th District is home to 65,000 residents of South Asian descent.
At an October campaign event that doubled as a celebration of Diwali and Tihar — religious festivals celebrated in India and Nepal, respectively — attendees voiced their pride in Subramanyam’s accomplishments.
“Everybody embraces him just like their own son…and everybody thinks that they are family,” said Prabha Deuja, a longtime activist in the Northern Virginia Nepalese community. “That's just a beautiful thing to feel.”
On the campaign trail, Subramanyam touted his General Assembly accomplishments, particularly legislation that required the state to take into account commuters’ ability to pay when approving requests for toll increases on the Dulles Greenway — a move that blocked a proposed 40% toll hike earlier this year from the company that owns the roadway.
The fiery nature of the district’s primary contests carried over to the general election. Subramanyam attacked Clancy for his ties to the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind Project 2025 — a blueprint for a possible Trump presidency which called for drastic changes to the federal workforce, gutting the nonpartisan civil service and dismantling entire government agencies. (Clancy, asked by WAMU in September if he agreed with a related Trump policy proposal to move 100,000 federal jobs out of the D.C. region, said he didn’t support it.)
Clancy, meanwhile, alleged Subramanyam, who touted his service as a volunteer firefighter on the campaign trail, had actually been terminated from the role in 2019. Subramanyam acknowledged that he was “not a natural firefighter” and struggled in training in an interview with The Washington Post. He said he left the role to focus on his position in the House of Delegates and parenting his infant daughter.
As of 10:30 p.m., Subramanyam’s opponent, Mike Clancy, had not yet conceded the race. Subramanyam told reporters he had not heard from Clancy but hoped to sit down with him to discuss ideas for the district in the future.
In a mark of the political times, Subramanyam was endorsed by both Wexton and her old political rival, former Rep. Barbara Comstock, a moderate Republican who broke with her party to endorse Harris and multiple Democratic congressional candidates in Virginia.
Comstock praised Subramanyam’s focus on “the unique needs of the district, such as our federal employees and contractors, and opposing government shutdowns or disastrous partisan programs like Project 2025 which would devastate our area.”
There are 34,000 federal employees and contractors living in the 10th District.
Subramanyam’s victory will trigger a special election for his state Senate seat, which covers eastern Loudoun County. Voters will pick candidates in firehouse primaries — run by the parties, not the local elections office — before Nov. 18, and then a special election will take place before the General Assembly returns to Richmond in January.
The district leans blue, which is good news for Democrats looking to maintain their single-seat majority in the Virginia Senate.
11th Congressional District
Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly will return for a ninth term representing Virginia's 11th Congressional District, according to The Associated Press.
Connolly, who serves on the House Oversight Committee’s subcommittee on government operations, defeated Republican Mike Van Meter, a retired FBI officer and Navy veteran.
Connolly is known for his focus on the local federal workforce and government contractors crucial to the Northern Virginia economy. He has championed legislation requiring federal agencies to establish clear safety measures for employees during public health emergencies and pushed the Office of Management and Budget to ensure federal health plans cover fertility treatments.
Van Meter ran a long shot campaign focused on immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, advocating for law enforcement, reducing taxes and preventing “political indoctrination” in schools.
AP called the race for Connolly just before 10 p.m. Tuesday.
