Virginia's 7th congressional district
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Virginia's 7th congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
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| Current Representative | Dave Brat (R–Glen Allen) |
| Population (2010) | 757,917 |
| Median income | 64,751 |
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| Cook PVI | R+10 |
Virginia's 7th congressional district is a United States congressional district in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The district is currently represented by Republican Congressman Dave Brat, first elected in 2014.
The Virginia Legislature's 2012 redistricting of the adjacent 3rd district was found unconstitutional and replaced with a court-ordered redistricting on January 16 2016 for the 2016 elections.
The district stretches from the west end of Richmond and its suburbs in Henrico and portions of Chesterfield Counties, through Orange, Culpeper and northward to Page and Rappahannock Counties. Its current configuration dates from 1993, when Virginia was forced to create a majority-minority district by a Justice Department directive. At that time, most of Richmond, which had been entirely in the old 3rd District for over a century, was shifted to a newly created 3rd District. The remaining territory in the old 3rd was combined with some more rural areas to the north to form the new 7th District.
Prior to 1993, the 7th District stretched from the fringes of the Washington, D.C. suburbs to Charlottesville. It included the far northern portion of the Shenandoah Valley, as well as Manassas and Fredericksburg.
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