Democratic Party of Virginia

The **Democratic Party of Virginia** is the affiliate (associated with) of the Democratic Party. The Virginia Democrats are based in Richmond, Virginia.

As of 2022, the Democrats are the largest party in the Senate of Virginia. Federally, Virginia has voted for every Democratic presidential candidate since 2008. The Democrats also hold seven out of the 11 state's U.S. House seats and both of the state's U.S. Senate seats.

### Local Democratic Committees

Local Democratic Committees assist the Democratic Party by locality, though they can contain several localities.

### Central Committee

The Central Committee controls all matters of the Party. The committee can create an annual budget and the method to nominate candidates for statewide offices.

#### U.S. Senate

Democrats have controlled both of Virginia's seats in the U.S. Senate since 2008:
- Class I: **Tim Kaine** (_Junior Senator_)
- Class II: **Mark Warner** (_Senior Senator_, _Vice Chair of Senate Democratic Caucus_, _Vice Chair of Senate Intelligence Committee_)

#### U.S. House of Representatives

Out of Virginia's 11 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, seven are held by Democrats:
- VA-02: **Elaine Luria**
- VA-03: **Bobby Scott**
- VA-04: **Donald McEachin**
- VA-07: **Abigail Spanberger**
- VA-08: **Don Beyer**
- VA-10: **Jennifer Wexton**
- VA-11: **Gerry Connolly**

### Statewide offices

As of 2022, Democrats control none of the three elected statewide offices.

### Legislative leadership

- President pro tempore of the Senate of Virginia: Louise Lucas
- Senate Majority Leader: Dick Saslaw
- Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates: Eileen Filler-Corn
- House Majority Leader: Charniele Herring

## 2019 Virginia political crisis

In 2019, all three of Virginia's statewide executive office holders, all Democrats, were in various controversies. Governor Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook page had featured a person in blackface and a person in a Ku Klux Klan hood, Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax was accused of having sexually assaulted a professor in 2004, and Attorney General Mark Herring was revealed to have worn blackface at a college party. Parts of the Democratic Party of Virginia told Northam to resign from the governorship, but he did not. The national Democratic Party remained silent, as Northam's and Fairfax's resignation would have meant that Republican Speaker of the House Kirk Cox would have become governor. Ultimately, none of the three accused resigned.

## Infobox (political party)

- **name**: Democratic Party of Virginia
- **logo**: The Democratic Party of Virginia Logo.png
- **colorcode**: #00AEF3
- **secretary**: Isaac Sarver
- **spokesperson**: Grant Fox, Communications Director
- **ideology**: Centrism
Modern liberalism in the United States, Modern liberalism
Progressivism
- **website**: [http://www.vademocrats.org www.vademocrats.org]
- **chairperson**: Susan Swecker
- **leader1 title**: President pro tempore of the Senate of Virginia, Senate President Pro Tempore
- **leader1 name**: Louise Lucas
- **leader2 title**: Senate Majority Leader
- **leader2 name**: Dick Saslaw
- **leader3 title**: List of Speakers of the Virginia House of Delegates, House Speaker
- **leader3 name**: Eileen Filler-Corn
- **position**: Centre-left politics, Center-left
- **national**: Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party
- **colors**: Red states and blue states, Blue
- **seats1 title**: Government of Virginia, Statewide Executive Offices
- **seats2 title**: Senate of Virginia, Senate
- **seats3 title**: Virginia House of Delegates, House of Delegates
- **seats4 title**: United States Senate, U.S. Senate
- **seats5 title**: United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives
- **seats6 title**: Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
- **newspaper**: Blue Virginia (unofficial)
- **student wing**: Virginia College Democrats
- **youth wing**: Virginia Young Democrats
- **womens wing**: Virginia Democratic Women’s Caucus
- **wing2 title**: Overseas wing
- **wing2**: Democrats Abroad
- **wing3 title**: LGBT wing
- **wing3**: LGBT Democrats of Virginia
- **wing4**: Virginia Young Democrats Teen Caucus
- **wing4 title**: High School Wing