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Virginia's 14th House Of Delegates District (since 2024)
Virginia's 14th House of Delegates district elects one of 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates, the lower house of the state's bicameral legislature. District 14 represents parts of Fairfax County. The seat is currently held by Vivian Watts. District officeholders {, class=wikitable style="text-align:center" , - valign=bottom ! Years ! colspan=1 , Delegate ! Party ! Electoral history , - , nowrap , – , Calvin W. Fowler , , Democratic , , - , nowrap , – , Frank Slayton , , Democratic , , - , nowrap , – , Richard Cranwell , , Democratic , {{Plainlist, * Majority Leader of the Virginia House of Delegates (1991-2000) * Minority Leader of the Virginia House of Delegates (2000–02) * Retired after district was gerrymandered , - , nowrap , – , Daniel W. Marshall III , {{Party shading/Republican , Republican , First elected in 2001 (redistricted to the 49th District) , - , nowrap , – , Vivian Watts , {{Party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia's 14th House Of Delegates District (since 2024)
Virginia's 14th House of Delegates district elects one of 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates, the lower house of the state's bicameral legislature. District 14 represents parts of Fairfax County. The seat is currently held by Vivian Watts. District officeholders {, class=wikitable style="text-align:center" , - valign=bottom ! Years ! colspan=1 , Delegate ! Party ! Electoral history , - , nowrap , – , Calvin W. Fowler , , Democratic , , - , nowrap , – , Frank Slayton , , Democratic , , - , nowrap , – , Richard Cranwell , , Democratic , {{Plainlist, * Majority Leader of the Virginia House of Delegates (1991-2000) * Minority Leader of the Virginia House of Delegates (2000–02) * Retired after district was gerrymandered , - , nowrap , – , Daniel W. Marshall III , {{Party shading/Republican , Republican , First elected in 2001 (redistricted to the 49th District) , - , nowrap , – , Vivian Watts , {{Party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia House Of Delegates
The Virginia House of Delegates is one of the two parts of the Virginia General Assembly, the other being the Senate of Virginia. It has 100 members elected for terms of two years; unlike most states, these elections take place during odd-numbered years. The House is presided over by the Speaker of the House, who is elected from among the House membership by the Delegates. The Speaker is usually a member of the majority party and, as Speaker, becomes the most powerful member of the House. The House shares legislative power with the Senate of Virginia, the upper house of the Virginia General Assembly. The House of Delegates is the modern-day successor to the Virginia House of Burgesses, which first met at Jamestown in 1619. The House is divided into Democratic and Republican caucuses. In addition to the Speaker, there is a majority leader, majority whip, majority caucus chair, minority leader, minority whip, minority caucus chair, and the chairs of the several committees of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bicameral Legislature
Bicameralism is a type of legislature, one divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature. Bicameralism is distinguished from unicameralism, in which all members deliberate and vote as a single group. , about 40% of world's national legislatures are bicameral, and about 60% are unicameral. Often, the members of the two chambers are elected or selected by different methods, which vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. This can often lead to the two chambers having very different compositions of members. Enactment of primary legislation often requires a concurrent majority—the approval of a majority of members in each of the chambers of the legislature. When this is the case, the legislature may be called an example of perfect bicameralism. However, in many parliamentary and semi-presidential systems, the house to which the executive is responsible (e.g. House of Commons of UK and National Assembly of France) can overrule the ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairfax County, Virginia
Fairfax County, officially the County of Fairfax, is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is part of Northern Virginia and borders both the city of Alexandria and Arlington County and forms part of the suburban ring of Washington, D.C. The county is predominantly suburban in character with some urban and rural pockets. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,150,309, making it Virginia's most populous jurisdiction, with around 13% of the Commonwealth's population. The county is also the most populous jurisdiction in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, with around 20% of the MSA population, as well as the larger Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA Combined Statistical Area, with around 13% of the CSA population. The county seat is Fairfax, although because it is an independent city under Virginia law, the city of Fairfax is not part of Fairfax County. Fairfax was the first U.S. county to reach a six-figure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
