Virginia's 4th Congressional District election, 2024

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Virginia's 4th Congressional District
Democratic primary Republican primary General election
Election details
Filing deadline: April 4, 2024
Primary: June 18, 2024 General: November 5, 2024 Pre-election incumbent: Jennifer McClellan (D)
How to vote
Poll times: 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Voting in Virginia
Race ratings
Cook Political Report: Solid Democratic DDHQ and The Hill: Safe Democratic Inside Elections: Solid Democratic Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Democratic
Ballotpedia analysis
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All U.S. House districts, including the 4th Congressional District of Virginia, held elections in 2024. The general election was November 5, 2024. The primary was June 18, 2024. The filing deadline was April 4, 2024.

Heading into the election the incumbent is Jennifer McClellan (D), who was first elected in 2023. She was elected on February 21, 2023, to replace Aston Donald McEachin (D).

The outcome of this race affected the partisan balance of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 119th Congress. All 435 House districts were up for election.

At the time of the election, Republicans held a 220-212 majority with three vacancies. As a result of the election, Republicans retained control of the U.S. House, winning 220 seats to Democrats' 215. To read more about the 2024 U.S. House elections, click here.

In the 2022 election in this district, the Democratic candidate won 64.9%-34.9%. Daily Kos calculated what the results of the 2020 presidential election in this district would have been following redistricting. Joe Biden (D) would have defeated Donald Trump (R) 67.2%-31.5%.

For more information about the primaries in this election, click on the links below:

• Virginia's 4th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 18 Democratic primary)
• Virginia's 4th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 18 Republican primary)

Candidates and election results

General election

General election for U.S. House Virginia District 4

Incumbent Jennifer McClellan defeated Bill Moher in the general election for U.S. House Virginia District 4 on November 5, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jennifer McClellan (D)	67.3	252,885
		Bill Moher (R)	32.4	121,814
		Other/Write-in votes	0.2	809

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 375,508
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Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Jennifer McClellan advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Virginia District 4.

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Bill Moher advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Virginia District 4.

Candidate profiles

There were no candidate profiles created for this race. Candidate profiles would have appeared here as candidates completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey.

Voting information

See also: Voting in Virginia

Election information in Virginia: Nov. 5, 2024, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

• In-person: Nov. 5, 2024
• By mail: Postmarked by Oct. 15, 2024
• Online: Oct. 15, 2024

Was absentee/mail-in voting available to all voters?

Yes

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot request deadline?

• In-person: Oct. 25, 2024
• By mail: Received by Oct. 25, 2024
• Online: Oct. 25, 2024

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot return deadline?

• In-person: Nov. 5, 2024
• By mail: Postmarked by Nov. 5, 2024

Was early voting available to all voters?

Yes

What were the early voting start and end dates?

Sep. 20, 2024 to Nov. 2, 2024

Were all voters required to present ID at the polls? If so, was a photo or non-photo ID required?

N/A

When were polls open on Election Day?

6:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. (EST)

Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey responses

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No candidate in this race completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign finance

Name	Party	Receipts*	Disbursements**	Cash on hand	Date
Jennifer McClellan	Democratic Party	$2,767,794	$2,713,693	$54,101	As of December 31, 2024
Bill Moher	Republican Party	$413,819	$413,819	$0	As of December 31, 2024
Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2024. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). * According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee." ** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election.

General election race ratings

See also: Race rating definitions and methods

Ballotpedia provides race ratings from four outlets: The Cook Political Report, Inside Elections, Sabato's Crystal Ball, and DDHQ/The Hill. Each race rating indicates if one party is perceived to have an advantage in the race and, if so, the degree of advantage:

• Safe and Solid ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge and the race is not competitive.
• Likely ratings indicate that one party has a clear edge, but an upset is possible.
• Lean ratings indicate that one party has a small edge, but the race is competitive.
• Toss-up ratings indicate that neither party has an advantage.

Race ratings are informed by a number of factors, including polling, candidate quality, and election result history in the race's district or state.

Race ratings: Virginia's 4th Congressional District election, 2024
Race tracker	Race ratings
	November 5, 2024	October 29, 2024	October 22, 2024	October 15, 2024
The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter	Solid Democratic	Solid Democratic	Solid Democratic	Solid Democratic
Decision Desk HQ and The Hill	Safe Democratic	Safe Democratic	Safe Democratic	Safe Democratic
Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales	Solid Democratic	Solid Democratic	Solid Democratic	Solid Democratic
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball	Safe Democratic	Safe Democratic	Safe Democratic	Safe Democratic
Note: Ballotpedia reviews external race ratings every week throughout the election season and posts weekly updates even if the media outlets have not revised their ratings during that week.

Ballot access

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Virginia in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Virginia, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024
State	Office	Party	Signatures required	Filing fee	Filing deadline	Source
Virginia	U.S. House	Ballot-qualified party	1,000	$3,480.00	4/4/2024	Source
Virginia	U.S. House	Unaffiliated	1,000	N/A	6/18/2024	Source

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

• District map - A map of the district in place for the election.
• Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
• Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
• State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.

• District map
• Competitiveness
• Presidential elections
• State party control

Below was the map in use at the time of the election. Click the map below to enlarge it.

See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2024

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Virginia.

Virginia U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024
Office	Districts/ offices	Seats	Open seats	Candidates	Possible primaries	Contested Democratic primaries	Contested Republican primaries	% of contested primaries	Incumbents in contested primaries	% of incumbents in contested primaries
2024	11	11	2	53	22	6	3	40.9%	2	22.2%
2022	11	11	0	33	16	1	4	31.3%	2	18.2%
2020	11	11	0	31	15	4	2	40.0%	2	18.2%
2018	11	11	2	37	17	6	3	52.9%	2	22.2%
2016	11	11	2	29	20	1	4	25.0%	2	22.2%
2014	11	11	2	32	20	1	3	20.0%	2	22.2%

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Virginia in 2024. Information below was calculated on June 16, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Fifty-three candidates ran for Virginia’s 11 U.S. House districts, including 33 Democrats and 20 Republicans. That’s an average of 4.81 candidates per district.

This was also the most candidates who ran in primary elections in Virginia in the last 10 years.

The 7th and 10th Congressional Districts were open in 2024. The last time a seat was open in Virginia was in 2018 when two seats were open.

Incumbent Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-07) did not run for re-election because she will run for Governor of Virginia in 2025. Incumbent Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-10) retired from public office.

Sixteen candidates—12 Democrats and four Republicans—ran for the open 10th Congressional District, the most candidates who ran for a district in Virginia in 2024.

Nine primaries—six Democratic and three Republican—were contested in 2024. Between 2014 and 2022, an average of 5.8 primaries were contested each election year.

Two incumbents—Gerald Edward Connolly (D-11) and Bob Good (R-05)—were in contested primaries in 2024. Since 2014, there have been two incumbents in contested primaries in Virginia in every election year.

Candidates filed to run in the Republican and Democratic primaries in all 11 districts, meaning no seats are guaranteed to either party.

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

Heading into the 2024 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+16. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 16 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Virginia's 4th the 88th most Democratic district nationally.

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in Virginia's 4th based on 2024 district lines
Joe Biden	Donald Trump
67.2%	31.5%

Inside Elections Baselines

See also: Inside Elections

Inside Elections' Baseline is a figure that analyzes all federal and statewide election results from the district over the past four election cycles. The results are combined in an index estimating the strength of a typical Democratic or Republican candidate in the congressional district. The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.

Inside Elections Baseline for 2024
Democratic Baseline	Republican Baseline	Difference
65.2	33.9	D+31.3

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in Virginia, 2020

Virginia presidential election results (1900-2020)

• 17 Democratic wins
• 14 Republican wins

Year	1900	1904	1908	1912	1916	1920	1924	1928	1932	1936	1940	1944	1948	1952	1956	1960	1964	1968	1972	1976	1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016	2020
Winning Party	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D

See also: Party control of Virginia state government

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of Virginia's congressional delegation as of May 2024.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Virginia
Party	U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
Democratic	2	6	8
Republican	0	5	5
Independent	0	0	0
Vacancies	0	0	0
Total	2	11	13

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in Virginia's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.

State executive officials in Virginia, May 2024
Office	Officeholder
Governor	Glenn Youngkin
Lieutenant Governor	Winsome Earle-Sears
Secretary of State	Kelly Gee
Attorney General	Jason Miyares

State legislature

Virginia State Senate

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	21
	Republican Party	19
	Other	0
	Vacancies	0
Total		40

Virginia House of Delegates

Party		As of February 2024
	Democratic Party	51
	Republican Party	49
	Other	0
	Vacancies	0
Total		100

Trifecta control

The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.

Virginia Party Control: 1992-2024
Four years of Democratic trifectas  •  Four years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Year	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Governor	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R
Senate	D	D	D	D	S	S	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	R	R	D	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D
House	D	D	D	D	D	D	S	S	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	R	R	D

District history

The section below details election results for this office in elections dating back to 2018.

2022

See also: Virginia's 4th Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Virginia District 4

Incumbent Aston Donald McEachin defeated Leon Benjamin Sr. in the general election for U.S. House Virginia District 4 on November 8, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Aston Donald McEachin (D)	64.9	159,044
		Leon Benjamin Sr. (R)	34.9	85,503
		Other/Write-in votes	0.2	425

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 244,972
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Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Aston Donald McEachin advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Virginia District 4.

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Leon Benjamin Sr. advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Virginia District 4.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Philip Hamilton (R)
• Michael Dickinson (R)

2020

See also: Virginia's 4th Congressional District election, 2020

General election

General election for U.S. House Virginia District 4

Incumbent Aston Donald McEachin defeated Leon Benjamin Sr. in the general election for U.S. House Virginia District 4 on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Aston Donald McEachin (D)	61.6	241,142
		Leon Benjamin Sr. (R)	38.2	149,625
		Other/Write-in votes	0.1	578

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 391,345
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Virginia District 4

Incumbent Aston Donald McEachin defeated R. Cazel Levine in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Virginia District 4 on June 23, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Aston Donald McEachin	80.0	45,083
		R. Cazel Levine	20.0	11,287

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 56,370
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Republican convention

Republican convention for U.S. House Virginia District 4

Leon Benjamin Sr. advanced from the Republican convention for U.S. House Virginia District 4 on June 27, 2020.

		Candidate
✔		Leon Benjamin Sr. (R)

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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• James Spivey (R)

2018

See also: Virginia's 4th Congressional District election, 2018

General election

General election for U.S. House Virginia District 4

Incumbent Aston Donald McEachin defeated Ryan McAdams and Pete Wells in the general election for U.S. House Virginia District 4 on November 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Aston Donald McEachin (D)	62.6	187,642
		Ryan McAdams (R)	35.9	107,706
		Pete Wells (L)	1.4	4,233
		Other/Write-in votes	0.1	273

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 299,854
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Virginia District 4

Incumbent Aston Donald McEachin advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Virginia District 4 on June 12, 2018.

		Candidate
✔		Aston Donald McEachin

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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Virginia District 4

Ryan McAdams defeated Shion Fenty in the Republican primary for U.S. House Virginia District 4 on June 12, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Ryan McAdams	72.6	17,513
		Shion Fenty	27.4	6,621

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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified.	Total votes: 24,134
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• David Leon (R)

See also

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Footnotes

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Virginia's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Tim Kaine (D)

Mark Warner (D)

Representatives

District 1

Rob Wittman (R)

District 2

Jennifer Kiggans (R)

District 3

Bobby Scott (D)

District 4

Jennifer McClellan (D)

District 5

John McGuire (R)

District 6

Benjamin Lee Cline (R)

District 7

Eugene Vindman (D)

District 8

Donald Sternoff Beyer (D)

District 9

H. Morgan Griffith (R)

District 10

Suhas Subramanyam (D)

District 11

James Walkinshaw (D)

Democratic Party (8)

Republican Party (5)

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