Virginia's 7th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 18 Democratic primary)
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| Filing deadline: April 4, 2024 |
| Primary: June 18, 2024 General: November 5, 2024 |
| How to vote |
| Poll times: 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Voting in Virginia |
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A Democratic Party primary took place on June 18, 2024, in Virginia's 7th Congressional District to determine which Democratic candidate would run in the district's general election on November 5, 2024.
Eugene Vindman advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Virginia District 7.
All 435 seats were up for election. At the time of the election, Republicans had a 220 to 212 majority with three vacancies.[1] As of June 2024, 45 members of the U.S. House had announced they were not running for re-election. To read more about the U.S. House elections taking place this year, click here.
In the 2022 election in this district, the Democratic candidate won 52.2%-47.6%. 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) 52.6%-45.8%.[2]
| Candidate filing deadline | Primary election | General election |
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A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. Virginia utilizes an open primary process in which registered voters do not have to be members of a party to vote in that party's primary.[3]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
This page focuses on Virginia's 7th Congressional District Democratic primary. For more in-depth information on the district's Republican primary and the general election, see the following pages:
- Virginia's 7th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 18 Republican primary)
- Virginia's 7th Congressional District election, 2024
Candidates and election results
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Virginia District 7
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Virginia District 7 on June 18, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Eugene Vindman ![]() | 49.3 | 17,263 | |
Elizabeth Guzman ![]() | 15.1 | 5,283 | ||
| Briana Sewell | 13.4 | 4,706 | ||
Andrea Bailey ![]() | 12.5 | 4,381 | ||
Margaret Franklin ![]() | 5.8 | 2,034 | ||
Carl Bedell ![]() | 2.1 | 738 | ||
Clifford Heinzer ![]() | 1.8 | 621 | ||
| Total votes: 35,026 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Mohamed Bourakba (D)
Candidate profiles
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Party: Democratic Party
Incumbent: No
Political Office: None
Submitted Biography: "Since being elected in 2019, Supervisor Bailey has been a fierce advocate for housing accessibility, public health, transportation, and economic investment in Prince William County. Her accomplishments include historic efforts to prioritize affordable and workforce housing, passing the county's first Collective Bargaining Ordinance, securing $90 million for transportation projects, and securing $11.9 million to build the county's first Crisis Receiving Center for mental health. Andrea looks forward to continuing to deliver for the people she represents in Congress. Andrea is a proud mother and military spouse. She lives in Dumfries with her husband of 47 years, Cozy."
This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Virginia District 7 in 2024.
Party: Democratic Party
Incumbent: No
Political Office: None
Submitted Biography: "Veteran. Attorney. Moderate Democrat."
This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Virginia District 7 in 2024.
Party: Democratic Party
Incumbent: No
Political Office: None
Submitted Biography: "I’m an experienced public servant who has served as both a local elected official and senior staffer on Capitol Hill. I have served as Prince William County Supervisor for the Woodbridge District since 2019. As a supervisor, I led efforts to build more affordable housing in Prince William County, established a sustainability commission, created an award-winning Child Advocacy Center to help victims of child abuse, and renamed the Jefferson Davis Highway. I spent almost a decade as a legislative staffer on Capitol Hill, working to pass laws boosting small businesses, protecting voting rights, and supporting working families."
This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Virginia District 7 in 2024.
Party: Democratic Party
Incumbent: No
Political Office: None
Submitted Biography: "I came to America 25 years ago as a single mother with just $300 in my pocket. Working 3 jobs to afford a small apartment for herself and my daughter, I attended NOVA and then Capella University at night. Earning multiple masters degrees, my experiences have motivated me to help those who might otherwise be invisible. Building a successful career as a social worker, I fight to protect children from abuse and help those struggling with their mental health. When Prince William County made headlines for its attacks on immigrants, I mobilized our community. And when Trump was elected, I stepped up to run for office myself, defeating a 16-year Republican incumbent for a seat in the House of Delegates. I led Democrats in their efforts to pass Obamacare medicaid expansions, giving over 700,000 Virginians access to healthcare. Noticing my message, Speaker Pelosi selected me to give the SOTU response for Spanish language viewers across the country. In Richmond, I introduced over 100 bills to implement paid-sick leave, hire more school counselors, and lift Virginia’s ban on public sector collective bargaining – drawing praise from across the aisle for ensuring rural communities just like Culpeper, Madison, Greene, and Orange Counties were never left behind. My husband Carlos and I live in Prince William County where we have raised four children together, all of whom attended PWC’s Public Schools."
This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Virginia District 7 in 2024.
Party: Democratic Party
Incumbent: No
Political Office: None
Submitted Biography: "He grew up in a working-class neighborhood at a time when a full day’s work earned a living wage, benefits, and the opportunity for your kids to do even better. He served the United States in the Far East, Latin America, Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East. In the Army, he led as an officer in the Infantry and Special Forces. As a diplomat, he analyzed the politics of foreign nations and focused on U.S. policy in the Middle East. His career included: • Countering violent extremism. • Directing U.S. counter narcotics programs in the Golden Triangle: support to law enforcement, addiction treatment, and supply reduction. • Bolstering border security and coordinating civilian efforts to improve governance in Afghanistan. • Supervising the issuance of immigrant visas. A member of organized labor for 25 years, he is also a lifetime member of the VFW and the Special Forces Association. Cliff recently ended his tenure as Political Action Chair of the NAACP’s Stafford Branch. Since his departure from federal service, he has been devoted to political activism, including serving as the Chair of the Stafford County Democratic Committee. He resides in Stafford with his spouse Tuanta (née Tangae), a federal retiree and naturalized U.S. citizen. "
This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Virginia District 7 in 2024.
Party: Democratic Party
Incumbent: No
Political Office: None
Submitted Biography: "I am a father, a husband, an immigrant, an international humanitarian law expert, and a former Colonel in the U.S. Army. I was born in Soviet Ukraine, and when I was just four years old I came to America as a refugee with my two brothers, grandmother, and recently widowed father. My family immigrated to this country with only $759, but through perseverance, a good union job, and faith in the American dream, we were able to build a life for ourselves. In 2019, after serving our country for 22 years in the Army, I was on the National Security Council as the Senior Ethics Attorney when I blew the whistle on the infamous phone call in which President Trump attempted to extort President Zelensky of Ukraine, Trump threatened to withhold critical aid if Ukraine didn't investigate President Biden’s family. This phone call and the investigation that followed resulted in Trump’s first impeachment. Trump retaliated against me for my role; his vindictiveness cost me my career. Now, I’m running to represent Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, preserve democracy, protect our freedoms, and be an advocate for our community on Capitol Hill. I live in Prince William County with my wife Cindy and our daughter Madi, who is in the 8th grade in Prince William County Public Schools. Our son Max is in his Sophomore year at William & Mary College."
This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Virginia District 7 in 2024.
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Virginia
Campaign finance
| Name | Party | Receipts* | Disbursements** | Cash on hand | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrea Bailey | Democratic Party | $372,867 | $372,867 | $0 | As of July 23, 2024 |
| Carl Bedell | Democratic Party | $86,049 | $86,049 | $0 | As of October 17, 2024 |
| Margaret Franklin | Democratic Party | $315,897 | $315,510 | $387 | As of December 31, 2024 |
| Elizabeth Guzman | Democratic Party | $318,182 | $318,182 | $0 | As of June 30, 2024 |
| Clifford Heinzer | Democratic Party | $67,994 | $67,985 | $31 | As of December 31, 2024 |
| Briana Sewell | Democratic Party | $292,143 | $292,143 | $0 | As of July 25, 2024 |
| Eugene Vindman | Democratic Party | $18,096,190 | $17,961,256 | $134,934 | As of December 31, 2024 |
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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." |
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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.
Below was the map in use at the time of the election. Click the map below to enlarge it.

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Virginia.
| Virginia U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024 | ||||||||||||||
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| 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[4] | 1 | 4 | 31.3% | 2 | 18.2% | ||||
| 2020 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 31 | 15[5] | 4 | 2 | 40.0% | 2 | 18.2% | ||||
| 2018 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 37 | 17[6] | 6 | 3 | 52.9% | 2 | 22.2% | ||||
| 2016 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 29 | 20[7] | 1 | 4 | 25.0% | 2 | 22.2% | ||||
| 2014 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 32 | 20[8] | 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
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+1. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 1 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Virginia's 7th the 206th most Democratic district nationally.[9]
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 7th based on 2024 district lines | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Biden |
Donald Trump | |||
| 52.6% | 45.8% | |||
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.[10] The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.
| Inside Elections Baseline for 2024 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic Baseline |
Republican Baseline |
Difference | ||
| 50.9 | 48.1 | R+2.8 | ||
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 |
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| 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 |
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 | |
| Lieutenant Governor | |
| Secretary of State | |
| Attorney General | |
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 |
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 | ||||||
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| 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 |
See also
- Virginia's 7th Congressional District election, 2024 (June 18 Republican primary)
- Virginia's 7th Congressional District election, 2024
- United States House elections in Virginia, 2024 (June 18 Democratic primaries)
- United States House elections in Virginia, 2024 (June 18 Republican primaries)
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2024
- United States House Republican Party primaries, 2024
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2024
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2024
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ A majority in the U.S. House when there are no vacancies is 218 seats.
- ↑ Daily Kos, "Daily Kos Elections' 2020 presidential results by congressional district, for new and old districts," accessed September 15, 2022
- ↑ Virginia Legislative Information System, "Va. Code § 24.2–530," accessed September 16, 2025
- ↑ Six district parties chose to hold nominating conventions or caucuses instead of primaries. Those are not included in the total for number of possible primaries.
- ↑ Seven district parties chose to hold nominating conventions or caucuses instead of primaries. Those are not included in the total for number of possible primaries.
- ↑ Five district parties chose to hold nominating conventions or caucuses instead of primaries. Those are not included in the total for number of possible primaries.
- ↑ Two district parties chose to hold nominating conventions or caucuses instead of primaries. Those are not included in the total number of possible primaries.
- ↑ Two district parties chose to hold nominating conventions or caucuses instead of primaries. Those are not included in the total number of possible primaries.
- ↑ Cook Political Report, "The 2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠)," accessed January 10, 2024
- ↑ Inside Elections, "Methodology: Inside Elections’ Baseline by Congressional District," December 8, 2023
