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Dan Helmer
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Candidate, Virginia House of Delegates District 10

Virginia House of Delegates District 10
Tenure

2024 - Present

Term ends

2026

Years in position

1

Predecessor
Prior offices
Virginia House of Delegates District 40
Successor: Joseph McNamara
Predecessor: Tim Hugo

Compensation

Base salary

$17,640/year

Per diem

$213/day

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 7, 2023

Next election

November 4, 2025

Military

Service / branch

U.S. Army

Personal
Profession
Business strategist
Contact

Dan Helmer (Democratic Party) is a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, representing District 10. He assumed office on January 10, 2024. His current term ends on January 14, 2026.

Helmer (Democratic Party) is running for re-election to the Virginia House of Delegates to represent District 10. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025.[source] The Democratic primary for this office on June 17, 2025, was canceled.

Biography

Helmer is an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, Iraq, South Korea, and several domestic postings. He works as a business strategist in the private sector advising both U.S. government agencies and companies. He is a Rhodes Scholar.[1]

Committee assignments

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2023-2024

Helmer was assigned to the following committees:

2020-2021

Helmer was assigned to the following committees:

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Elections

2025

See also: Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2025

General election

General election for Virginia House of Delegates District 10

Incumbent Dan Helmer and David Woodrow Guill are running in the general election for Virginia House of Delegates District 10 on November 4, 2025.


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Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Dan Helmer advanced from the Democratic primary for Virginia House of Delegates District 10.

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. David Woodrow Guill advanced from the Republican primary for Virginia House of Delegates District 10.

Campaign finance

Endorsements

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2024

See also: Virginia's 10th Congressional District election, 2024

Virginia's 10th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 18 Democratic primary)

Virginia's 10th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 18 Republican primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Virginia District 10

Suhas Subramanyam defeated Mike Clancy in the general election for U.S. House Virginia District 10 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Suhas Subramanyam
Suhas Subramanyam (D)
 
52.1
 
215,131
Image of Mike Clancy
Mike Clancy (R)
 
47.5
 
196,343
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.4
 
1,538

Total votes: 413,012
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Virginia District 10

The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Virginia District 10 on June 18, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Suhas Subramanyam
Suhas Subramanyam
 
30.4
 
13,504
Image of Dan Helmer
Dan Helmer
 
26.6
 
11,784
Image of Atif Qarni
Atif Qarni
 
10.7
 
4,768
Image of Eileen Filler-Corn
Eileen Filler-Corn
 
9.3
 
4,131
Image of Jennifer Boysko
Jennifer Boysko
 
9.0
 
4,016
Image of David Reid
David Reid Candidate Connection
 
3.2
 
1,419
Image of Michelle Maldonado
Michelle Maldonado Candidate Connection
 
3.2
 
1,412
Image of Adrian Pokharel
Adrian Pokharel Candidate Connection
 
2.3
 
1,028
Image of Krystle Kaul
Krystle Kaul Candidate Connection
 
2.2
 
982
Image of Travis Nembhard
Travis Nembhard Candidate Connection
 
1.6
 
722
Image of Marion Devoe
Marion Devoe Candidate Connection
 
0.9
 
386
Image of Mark Leighton
Mark Leighton Candidate Connection
 
0.5
 
224

Total votes: 44,376
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Virginia District 10

Mike Clancy defeated Aliscia Andrews, Alexander Isaac, and Manga Anantatmula in the Republican primary for U.S. House Virginia District 10 on June 18, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Mike Clancy
Mike Clancy
 
64.2
 
17,434
Image of Aliscia Andrews
Aliscia Andrews
 
21.5
 
5,832
Image of Alexander Isaac
Alexander Isaac
 
9.4
 
2,544
Image of Manga Anantatmula
Manga Anantatmula
 
4.9
 
1,327

Total votes: 27,137
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Endorsements

Helmer received the following endorsements.

2023

See also: Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2023

General election

General election for Virginia House of Delegates District 10

Incumbent Dan Helmer defeated James Thomas in the general election for Virginia House of Delegates District 10 on November 7, 2023.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Dan Helmer
Dan Helmer (D)
 
59.4
 
15,569
Image of James Thomas
James Thomas (R)
 
40.3
 
10,547
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.3
 
76

Total votes: 26,192
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Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Dan Helmer advanced from the Democratic primary for Virginia House of Delegates District 10.

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. James Thomas advanced from the Republican primary for Virginia House of Delegates District 10.

Endorsements

Helmer received the following endorsements.

2021

See also: Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2021

General election

General election for Virginia House of Delegates District 40

Incumbent Dan Helmer defeated Harold Pyon in the general election for Virginia House of Delegates District 40 on November 2, 2021.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Dan Helmer
Dan Helmer (D)
 
52.6
 
20,201
Image of Harold Pyon
Harold Pyon (R)
 
47.3
 
18,133
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
37

Total votes: 38,371
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Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Dan Helmer advanced from the Democratic primary for Virginia House of Delegates District 40.

Republican convention

Republican convention for Virginia House of Delegates District 40

Harold Pyon defeated S.W. Hillenburg in the Republican convention for Virginia House of Delegates District 40 on May 1, 2021.

Candidate
Image of S.W. Hillenburg
S.W. Hillenburg (R)
Image of Harold Pyon
Harold Pyon (R)

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Campaign finance

2019

See also: Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2019

General election

General election for Virginia House of Delegates District 40

Dan Helmer defeated incumbent Tim Hugo in the general election for Virginia House of Delegates District 40 on November 5, 2019.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Dan Helmer
Dan Helmer (D) Candidate Connection
 
52.3
 
15,913
Image of Tim Hugo
Tim Hugo (R)
 
47.5
 
14,457
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
34

Total votes: 30,404
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2018

See also: United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, 2018

General election

General election for U.S. House Virginia District 10

Jennifer Wexton defeated incumbent Barbara Comstock in the general election for U.S. House Virginia District 10 on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Jennifer Wexton
Jennifer Wexton (D)
 
56.1
 
206,356
Image of Barbara Comstock
Barbara Comstock (R)
 
43.7
 
160,841
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
598

Total votes: 367,795
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Virginia District 10

The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Virginia District 10 on June 12, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Jennifer Wexton
Jennifer Wexton
 
41.9
 
22,405
Image of Alison Kiehl Friedman
Alison Kiehl Friedman
 
23.0
 
12,283
Image of Lindsey Davis Stover
Lindsey Davis Stover
 
16.0
 
8,567
Image of Dan Helmer
Dan Helmer
 
12.5
 
6,712
Image of Paul Pelletier
Paul Pelletier
 
3.8
 
2,010
Image of Julia Biggins
Julia Biggins
 
2.8
 
1,513

Total votes: 53,490
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Virginia District 10

Incumbent Barbara Comstock defeated Shak Hill in the Republican primary for U.S. House Virginia District 10 on June 12, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Barbara Comstock
Barbara Comstock
 
60.7
 
28,287
Image of Shak Hill
Shak Hill
 
39.3
 
18,311

Total votes: 46,598
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Democratic Party Democrats

Campaign themes

2025

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2024

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2023

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2021

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2019

Candidate Connection

Dan Helmer completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Helmer's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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1. Ensuring that Northern Virginia finally gets its fair share of transportation funding so that we spend less time in traffic and more time with our families.

2. Investing in our teachers and schools to ensure every NOVA student has access to a high quality public school education that prepares them for citizenship and the 21st Century work force, including high quality trade apprenticeships and community college.

3. Protecting Virginian's access to healthcare, including ensuring those with pre-existing conditions can’t be denied coverage, driving down the cost of healthcare, and protecting women’s access to reproductive health services.
1. Everyday I get up, put my son on the bus, and begin an hour-long commute to the small business I help run. Like so many Virginians, this commute takes days away from my time with my family, costs my business and our staff vast sums each year, and creates pollution that hurts our health and our climate. For a generation, some local politicians have chosen to serve partisan interests instead of the interests of our community. While cynically claiming credit for minor transportation improvement enacted by the County, these politicians have starved Northern Virginia of hundreds of millions of dollars in transportation funding – all while sending our hard-earned taxpayer money to build roads in other parts of the state. As a result, too many of our roads are in disrepair, we have limited pedestrian options, and parts of our Metro system are shutting down for months of repairs due to a lack of maintenance. I’m passionate about fighting to ensure Northern Virginia finally gets its fair share of transportation funding and investment and that we develop transportation solutions that ease traffic, address pollution, and have us at home with our families.

2. My family and I have access to healthcare as a result of my military service and for years I’ve worked to help solve some of the most vexing challenges in healthcare access and cost for America’s veterans. I believe that EVERY Virginian should have access to affordable healthcare. This means protecting access for those with pre-existing conditions, lowering costs, expanding access to mental healthcare in Virginia, and ensuring recent assaults on women’s access to reproductive health services in places like Alabama and Missouri don’t happen here in Virginia.

3. My wife Karen is a Fairfax County Public School teacher and both of my children go to Fairfax County Public Schools. For far too long we’ve underinvested in our schools leading to an 8% drop in per-pupil funding in the last decade. My son spends part of his day attending class in a trailer, while my wife is often up working until 10 or 11 PM at night because she doesn’t have the resources she needs in her classroom and she’s not going to let her students fail. This is simply unacceptable. Every child deserves a high quality public education and it’s time we finally had a representative who will fight for our families.
Leadership, service, and the ability to put community interests ahead of partisan ones are critical characteristics for any elected official. As a leader in the Army in combat zones you never ask the person sitting next to you in a HMMWV whether they are a Republican, Democrat, or Independent. You focus on getting the mission done, serving the interests of our country, and bringing soldiers home safely. Politics should work the same way but too often some local politicians have used their office to personally enrich themselves from campaign accounts, serve special interests instead of the public interest, and gerrymander districts to deny constituents the ability to change representation. This is out of step with our ideals and has contributed to vast dysfunction in Richmond. That’s why we need elected officials who will lead and serve the community by enacting campaign finance reform, ending partisan gerrymandering, and focusing on pragmatic problem-solving to address the needs of our community.
I was still in high school and I picked up a girl from her family’s house. Her parents looked skeptically at what they regarded as a slovenly approach to dress and read me the riot act about getting her home on time. I then took her out to dinner at pizza place that probably later gave her food poisoning. We went to a movie. but neither of us really enjoyed it and we had to leave early to make it home on time. I’m not sure what she saw in me but she kept dating me, first through high school, then through four years at West Point. Finally, we got married and have two beautiful boys together. Karen is my best friend and the love of my life and is proof that sometimes love can transcend a terrible, awkward date.
We are a Jewish family and my favorite holiday is Passover, the celebration and remembrance of the Jewish Exodus from Egypt. As a child, my extended family would gather each year at my Great-Grandma Lina and Great-grandpa Sam’s home. There, we would recall the tale of the Exodus. For our family this isn’t an event from the deep Biblical past. Instead, it is a remembrance of our own Exodus – survival of our family in hiding in Poland during the Holocaust, escape from the Soviet Union, and finally safety in our Promised Land -- the United States of America. Growing up with this story left me deeply dedicated to serving our country, which welcomed my family and gave us the opportunity to live in peace. It’s why I attended and graduated from the United States Military Academy and, after tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, am still an officer in the US Army Reserve. It’s why, today, I’m running for public office, because I believe we deserve public servants who will put our community first and know we can do better than our current politics.
Just reading this question now has the Cranberries’ song “Zombie” stuck in my head.

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Dan Helmer campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* U.S. House Virginia District 10Lost primary$1,113,778 $298,459
2023Virginia House of Delegates District 10Won general$829,919 $766,085
2021Virginia House of Delegates District 40Won general$2,162,515 $1,843,861
2019Virginia House of Delegates District 40Won general$1,898,117 N/A**
2018U.S. House Virginia District 10Lost primary$1,318,245 N/A**
Grand total$7,322,574 $2,908,405
Sources: OpenSecretsFederal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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Footnotes

Political offices
Preceded by
Wendy Gooditis (D)
Virginia House of Delegates District 10
2024-Present
Succeeded by
-
Preceded by
Tim Hugo (R)
Virginia House of Delegates District 40
2020-2024
Succeeded by
Joseph McNamara (R)


Current members of the Virginia House of Delegates
Leadership
Speaker of the House:Don Scott
Majority Leader:Charniele Herring
Minority Leader:Terry Kilgore
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