Virginia's 37th Senate district is one of 40 districts in the
Senate of Virginia
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. It has been represented by
Democrat
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Politics
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*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (United States) (D)
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Dave Marsden since a hotly contested 2010 special election to replace
Republican Ken Cuccinelli, who had been elected
Attorney General of Virginia
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.
Geography
District 37 is a serpentine district located entirely within
Fairfax County
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in the suburbs of
Washington, D.C.
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, including some or all of
Annandale,
Kings Park,
West Springfield,
Burke
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,
Fair Oaks, and
Centreville, among other communities.
The district overlaps with Virginia's
8th
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In mathematics
8 is:
* a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2.
* a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...
,
10th
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, and
11th congressional districts, and with the
35th Military units
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*35th Infantry Division (United States), a formation of the National Guard since World War I
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,
37th,
38th,
39th,
40th,
41st,
42nd
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Four is the smallest c ...
,
53rd, and
67th districts of the
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-numbe ...
.
Recent election results
2019
2015
2011
Federal and statewide results in District 37
Historical results
All election results below took place prior to 2011 redistricting, and thus were under different district lines.
2010 special
2007
2003
2002 special
1999
1995
References
{{Virginia State Senators
Virginia Senate districts
Government in Fairfax County, Virginia