Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2017

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All 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates
51 seats needed for a majority


Leader	Bill Howell	David Toscano
Party	Republican	Democratic
Leader since	January 1, 2003	November 11, 2012
Leader's seat	28th	57th
Current seats	66	34
Seats needed		17

Incumbent Speaker

Bill Howell
Republican

The 2017 Virginia House of Delegates elections will be held on November 7, 2017. Elections will be held to elect representatives from all 100 Virginia House of Delegates districts across each of the 95 counties and 38 cities. The winners of this election will serve in the 121st Virginia General Assembly since Virginia was part of the United States, and the 200th Virginia General Assembly including the Colony of Virginia. Republicans have held a House majority since the 2000 elections, although they lost one seat in the 2015 elections.

These elections will also be taking place alongside Virginia's gubernatorial, lieutenant gubernatorial and attorney general elections.

These elections will take place during the first term of President Donald Trump, a Republican who won the 2016 presidential election. Democrats are fielding a larger number of candidates than usual as part of a protest against President Trump. While 17 Republican delegates' districts backed Clinton, none of the Democrats' districts backed Trump. For this reason, Democrats are focusing more on picking up seats than on defending seats. Early on, it was expected that Republicans would hold the majority, but Democrats became more optimistic following the unexpectedly close result in Kansas's 4th congressional district special election, 2017. Likewise, after Jacqueline Smith won the election for Prince William County Clerk of Circuit Court, Republicans expressed concern that Democratic momentum and Republican internal bickering could cause them to lose from five to ten seats in the House of Delegates. Democratic state senator Jeremy McPike argued that Smith's victory boded well for Democratic turnout in the state election.

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