Virginia's Redistricting Subterfuge

Virginia Democrats are now attempting to reverse what the majority of Virginians voted for in order to revive the practice of gerrymandering. 

Chris J. Krisinger | March 15, 2026

Not so long ago, Virginia voters in 2020 went to the polls in a statewide referendum to overwhelmingly approve a state constitutional amendment that Virginia move to employ a bipartisan commission to draw its congressional boundaries rather than party politicians of the Virginia General Assembly.

That amendment -- known as Virginia Question 1 -- overwhelmingly passed with 65.69% of the vote, winning a majority of support in every county and independent city save for “deep blue” suburban Arlington County (where it still got 45%).

When the amendment passed, many Virginia Democrats, some Republicans, and anti-gerrymandering backers had worked for almost a decade to take away the General Assembly’s authority to draw the congressional........

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