Virginia district questions

Plain answers to what this map is most often asked.

Common questions about Virginia districts

What district am I in?

Enter your address in the search box, or click your location on the map above, and the tool lists every district that contains that exact point — your county or independent city, your Virginia Senate and House of Delegates districts, your U.S. House district, your school division, your magisterial district, your city or town and your ZIP code — along with who represents you where a roster exists.

How do I find out what House of Delegates district I'm in?

Search your address or click your location on the map. The tool shows your House of Delegates district and the delegate who currently holds the seat, rebuilt weekly from the House of Delegates' own member list and member pages.

How many Senate and House of Delegates districts does Virginia have?

Forty Senate districts and 100 House of Delegates districts. The app draws both from the U.S. Census Bureau's copies of the maps the Supreme Court of Virginia adopted in December 2021, which were first used in the 2023 elections. Those are the lines the sitting members were elected from.

Which congressional map does this use?

The map the Supreme Court of Virginia adopted in December 2021, which your current member of Congress was elected from. Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment in 2026 that would have let the General Assembly redraw the map for that year's election, but on 8 May 2026 the Supreme Court of Virginia struck the amendment down and kept the current maps. So the November 2026 election uses the 2021 map too, and the app keeps drawing it.

What county or city am I in?

Pick a point and the tool names your county or independent city — all 95 counties and 38 independent cities. A Virginia city belongs to no county: its city council governs it the way a board of supervisors governs a county. The card does not name the members of the board of supervisors or the city council yet, and says so rather than guessing.

Who represents me in Richmond and in Washington?

Pick a location to see your Virginia Senate district, House of Delegates district and U.S. House district, each with the member who currently holds the seat. Each state legislator's card carries a party, the office in the General Assembly Building and its telephone, the member's e-mail address and a link to the member's own page. Where a seat is vacant, the card says so instead of naming anyone.

What is a magisterial district?

Virginia's counties are divided into magisterial districts, and in many counties each one elects a member of the board of supervisors. The Magisterial District layer, shown under the County or City layer, names the one a point is in. In the 72 counties whose magisterial districts carry the same names as the districts their board is elected from, it draws them from the Virginia Department of Elections' own lines; in the others it draws the U.S. Census Bureau's copy, and the card says those lines are not the county's election districts. A magisterial district has no government of its own, so the card points to the Supervisor or Council District card, which names who represents the point.

Why does my card show fewer layers than other districtry states?

Because Virginia is new here. This app starts with what national publishers and the General Assembly can answer for any point — your county or city, your U.S. House district, both chambers of the General Assembly, your school division, your magisterial district, your city or town, your ZIP code and the nearest post office, police station and fire station. It also names boards of supervisors, city and town councils and school boards, draws the districts they are elected from, and adds voting precincts, soil and water conservation districts and tribal land, each from a source that can be checked. More comes as each one is sourced and verified. The app would rather answer ten things it can prove than twenty it cannot.

Is this an official government tool?

No. districtry is an independent civic project that reads public data and cites its sources. It never guesses an officeholder: where no verifiable roster exists, the card links the official body instead of naming someone. Confirm anything official with the relevant government office.

Not for legal or official use. These answers describe what the map shows and where it gets it. Boundary and roster data come from public sources that disclaim legal precision — confirm anything official with the relevant government office.