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A pending lawsuit is asking a judge to move up the next House general elections to November 2022.
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Under the state constitution, the 2021 House of Delegates elections should have been held in districts redrawn to reflect population changes during the previous decade. But the federal government was late in delivering Census data, leaving Virginia no choice but to hold the 2021 elections in previous districts. A lawsuit filed by former state Democratic Party Chair Paul Goldman asks the court to hold elections in the new districts as soon as possible, in November 2022.