Virginia's 10th congressional district
Virginia's 10th congressional district is a U.S. congressional district in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is currently represented by Democrat Jennifer Wexton, who was first elected in 2018.
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Population (2022) | 805,988[2] | ||
Median household income | $152,685[2] | ||
Ethnicity |
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Cook PVI | D+6[3] |
The district includes all of Rappahannock County, Fauquier County, and Loudoun County, parts of Fairfax County and Prince William County, as well as the independent cities of Manassas and Manassas Park. The district closely matches Virginia's voting patterns in statewide races with nearly identical margins as the final statewide results.
Beginning when it was re-created in 1952, the 10th district was in Republican hands for 60 of 66 years, including long stints in office by Joel Broyhill (1953–74) and Frank Wolf (1981–2014). Barbara Comstock, a former aide to Wolf, succeeded him after the 2014 election.[4] Wexton defeated Comstock in the 2018 midterms, becoming only the second Democrat to win it.
The modern 10th congressional district was formed in 1952. For the next two decades, it consisted of Arlington, Alexandria, and most of Fairfax County. As a result of redistricting following the 1970 census, it lost Alexandria and was pushed westward to take in Loudoun County. Virginia's 10th congressional district used to be a Republican stronghold, having once voted by double-digit margins for Republican candidates. In 2000, ten-term incumbent Republican Congressman Frank Wolf won over 80% of the vote and did not face a Democratic opponent. Two years later, Wolf defeated his Democratic challenger John Stevens by 43 points. In 2004, President George W. Bush won the district by 11 points. In recent years, the district has become much friendlier to Democrats due to population growth in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. In 2012, Mitt Romney narrowly carried the district by a point, while in 2016, Hillary Clinton won the district by 10 points.
In 2017, Democrats scored major gains in the state legislative elections, leaving Comstock as the only elected Republican above the county level in much of the district. Ralph Northam also easily carried the district in the gubernatorial race. This proved to be a precursor to Comstock's defeat by Wexton a year later. As of 2022, VA-10 is the third-wealthiest Congressional district in the country, with a median household income of $140,889.[5]
Demographics
According to Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball, this district has many "wealthy and highly-educated voters" as of 14 April 2016.[6] Specifically, whites represent about 61% of the population, and immigrants (largely Hispanic and Asian) represent over 20%. Just over half of adults hold at least a four-year college degree. The median income is $120,384.[7]
The 10th district has 35,500 federal workers. By comparison, the 1st district has 46,900; the 11th has 51,900; and the 8th has 81,100.[8] The eastern part of the district is home to Dulles Airport and technology, telecom and aerospace companies including Verizon Business Global LLC and Aeronautical Systems Inc.[9]
Election results from statewide races
Election results from statewide races | ||
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Year | Office | Results |
1992 | President | Bush 50%–33%[10] |
1996 | President | Dole 54%–38% |
Senator | Warner 60%–40% | |
1997 | Governor | Gilmore 62%–37% |
Lieutenant Governor | Hager 59%–37% | |
Attorney General | Earley 62%–38% | |
2000 | President | Bush 56%–41%[11] |
Senator | Allen 59%–41% | |
2001 | Governor | Earley 54%–45% |
Lieutenant Governor | Katzen 57%–41% | |
Attorney General | Kilgore 65%–35% | |
2004 | President | Bush 55%–44%[11] |
2008 | President | Obama 51%–48%[12] |
2012 | President | Romney 50%–49%[13] |
2013 | Governor | Cuccinelli 48%–47%–5%[14] |
Lieutenant Governor | Northam 52%–48%[15] | |
Attorney General | Obenshain 50%–50%[16] | |
2014 | Senator | Gillespie 52%–46%[17] |
2016 | President | Clinton 52%–42%[18] |
2017 | Governor | Northam 57%–43%[19] |
Lieutenant Governor | Fairfax 54%–46% | |
2018 | Senator | Kaine 60%–38%[20] |
2020 | President | Biden 58%–39%[21] |
2021 | Governor | McAuliffe 52%–47% |
Recent election results
1970s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Joel T. Broyhill (Incumbent) | 67,468 | 54.53 | |
Democratic | Harold O. Miller | 56,255 | 45.47 | |
Total votes | 123,723 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Joel T. Broyhill (Incumbent) | 101,138 | 56.26 | |
Democratic | Harold O. Miller | 78,638 | 43.74 | |
Write-ins | 2 | <0.01 | ||
Total votes | 179,778 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Democratic | Joseph L. Fisher | 67,184 | 53.62 | |||
Republican | Joel T. Broyhill (Incumbent) | 56,649 | 45.21 | |||
Independent | Francis J. Speh | 1,465 | 1.17 | |||
Write-ins | 6 | <0.01 | ||||
Total votes | 125,304 | 100.00 | ||||
Democratic gain from Republican | ||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Joseph L. Fisher (Incumbent) | 103,689 | 54.72 | |
Republican | Vincent F. Callahan Jr. | 73,616 | 38.85 | |
Independent | E. Stanley Rittenhouse | 12,124 | 6.40 | |
Write-ins | 60 | 0.03 | ||
Total votes | 189,489 | 100.00 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Joseph L. Fisher (Incumbent) | 70,892 | 53.35 | |
Republican | Frank Wolf | 61,981 | 46.64 | |
Write-ins | 9 | 0.01 | ||
Total votes | 132,882 | 100.00 | ||
Democratic hold | ||||
1980s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Republican | Frank Wolf | 110,840 | 51.14 | |||
Democratic | Joseph L. Fisher (Incumbent) | 105,883 | 48.85 | |||
Write-ins | 21 | 0.01 | ||||
Total votes | 216,744 | 100.00 | ||||
Republican gain from Democratic | ||||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Frank Wolf (Incumbent) | 86,506 | 52.74 | |
Democratic | Ira M. Lechner | 75,361 | 45.94 | |
Independent | Scott R. Bowden | 2,162 | 1.32 | |
Write-ins | 6 | <0.01 | ||
Total votes | 164,035 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Frank Wolf (Incumbent) | 158,528 | 62.50 | |
Democratic | John P. Flannery II | 95,074 | 37.49 | |
Write-ins | 23 | <0.01 | ||
Total votes | 253,625 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Frank Wolf (Incumbent) | 95,724 | 60.20 | |
Democratic | John G. Milliken | 63,292 | 39.80 | |
Write-ins | 7 | <0.01 | ||
Total votes | 159,023 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Frank Wolf (Incumbent) | 188,550 | 68.09 | |
Democratic | Bob L. Weinberg | 88,284 | 31.88 | |
Write-ins | 74 | 0.03 | ||
Total votes | 276,908 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
1990s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Frank Wolf (Incumbent) | 103,761 | 61.46 | |
Democratic | N. MacKenzie Canter III | 57,249 | 33.91 | |
Independent | Barbara S. Minnich | 5,273 | 3.12 | |
Independent | Lyndon LaRouche | 2,293 | 1.36 | |
Write-ins | 249 | 0.15 | ||
Total votes | 168,825 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Frank Wolf (Incumbent) | 144,471 | 63.59 | |
Democratic | Raymond E. Vickery Jr. | 75,775 | 33.35 | |
Independent | Alan R. Ogden | 6,874 | 3.03 | |
Write-ins | 71 | 0.03 | ||
Total votes | 227,191 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Frank Wolf (Incumbent) | 153,311 | 87.34 | |
Independent | Alan R. Ogden | 13,687 | 7.80 | |
Independent | Robert L. Rilee | 8,267 | 4.71 | |
Write-ins | 266 | 0.15 | ||
Total votes | 175,531 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Frank Wolf (Incumbent) | 169,266 | 72.02 | |
Democratic | Bob L. Weinberg | 59,145 | 25.17 | |
Independent | Gary A. Reams | 6,500 | 2.77 | |
Write-ins | 102 | 0.04 | ||
Total votes | 235,013 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Frank Wolf (Incumbent) | 103,648 | 71.60 | |
Democratic | Cornell W. Brooks | 36,476 | 25.20 | |
Independent | Robert A. Buchanan | 4,506 | 3.11 | |
Write-ins | 125 | 0.09 | ||
Total votes | 144,755 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
2000s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Frank Wolf (Incumbent) | 238,817 | 84.20 | |
Independent | Brian M. Brown | 28,107 | 9.91 | |
Independent | Marc A. Rossi | 16,031 | 5.65 | |
Write-ins | 682 | 0.24 | ||
Total votes | 283,637 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Frank Wolf (Incumbent) | 115,917 | 71.72 | |
Democratic | John B. Stevens Jr. | 45,464 | 28.13 | |
Write-ins | 234 | 0.14 | ||
Total votes | 161,615 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Frank Wolf (Incumbent) | 205,982 | 63.77 | |
Democratic | James R. Socas | 116,654 | 36.11 | |
Write-ins | 375 | 0.12 | ||
Total votes | 323,011 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Frank Wolf (Incumbent) | 138,213 | 57.32 | |
Democratic | Judy Feder | 98,769 | 40.96 | |
Libertarian | Wilbur N. Wood III | 2,107 | 0.87 | |
Independent | Neeraj C. Nigam | 1,851 | 0.77 | |
Write-ins | 194 | 0.08 | ||
Total votes | 241,134 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Frank Wolf (Incumbent) | 223,140 | 58.80 | |
Democratic | Judy Feder | 147,357 | 38.83 | |
Independent | Neeraj C. Nigam | 8,457 | 2.23 | |
Write-ins | 526 | 0.14 | ||
Total votes | 379,480 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
2010s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Frank Wolf (Incumbent) | 131,116 | 62.87 | |
Democratic | Jeff Barnett | 72,604 | 34.81 | |
Libertarian | Bill Redpath | 4,607 | 2.21 | |
Write-ins | 229 | 0.11 | ||
Total votes | 208,556 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Frank Wolf (Incumbent) | 214,038 | 58.41 | |
Democratic | Kristin Cabral | 142,024 | 38.76 | |
Independent | Kevin Chisholm | 9,855 | 2.69 | |
Write-in | 527 | 0.14 | ||
Total votes | 366,444 | 100 | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Barbara Comstock | 125,914 | 56.49% | |
Democratic | John Foust | 89,957 | 40.36% | |
Libertarian | Bill Redpath | 3,393 | 1.52% | |
Independent | Brad Eickholt | 2,442 | 1.10% | |
Independent Greens | Dianne Blais | 946 | 0.42% | |
Write-in | 258 | 0.12% | ||
Total votes | 222,910 | 100% | ||
Republican hold | ||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Republican | Barbara Comstock (Incumbent) | 210,791 | 52.69% | -3.8% | |
Democratic | LuAnn Bennett | 187,712 | 46.92% | +6.56% | |
Write-in | 1,580 | 0.39% | +0.27% | ||
Total votes | 400,083 | 100% | +79.48% | ||
Republican hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||
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Democratic | Jennifer Wexton | 206,356 | 56.1% | +9.2% | ||
Republican | Barbara Comstock (Incumbent) | 160,841 | 43.7% | -9.0% | ||
Write-in | 598 | 0.2% | -0.2% | |||
Total votes | 367,795 | 100% | -8.4% | |||
Democratic gain from Republican | ||||||
2020s
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Democratic | Jennifer Wexton (incumbent) | 268,734 | 56.5% | +0.4% | |
Republican | Aliscia Andrews | 206,253 | 43.4% | -0.3% | |
Write-in | 559 | 0.1% | -0.1% | ||
Total votes | 475,546 | ||||
Democratic hold | |||||
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Democratic | Jennifer Wexton (incumbent) | 157,405 | 53.15% | -3.35% | |
Republican | Hung Cao | 138,163 | 46.65% | +3.25% | |
Write-in | 577 | 0.19% | +.09% | ||
Total votes | 296,145 | ||||
Democratic hold | |||||
List of members representing the district
Historical district boundaries
See also
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