Virginia's 41st House of Delegates district elects one of 100 seats in the

Virginia House of Delegates The Virginia House of Delegates is one of the two houses 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 ...

, the lower house of the state's

bicameral legislature Bicameralism is a type of legislature that is 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 ...

. District 41 represents parts of

Montgomery County, Virginia Montgomery County is a county located in the Valley and Ridge area of the U.S. state of Virginia. As population in the area increased, Montgomery County was formed in 1777 from Fincastle County, which in turn had been taken from Botetourt Cou ...

and

Roanoke County, Virginia Roanoke County ( ) is a county in the U.S. state of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, its population was 96,929. Its county seat is Salem, but the county administrative offices are located in the census-designated place of ...

. The seat is currently held by Republican

Chris Obenshain Chris Obenshain is an American Republican politician from Virginia. He was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in the 2023 Virginia House of Delegates election from the 41st district. Obenshain was a prosecutor in the Montgomery County ...

since 2023. Before that it was represented by

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Eileen Filler-Corn Eileen Robin Filler-Corn (born June 5, 1964) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the Minority Leader of the Virginia House of Delegates from January to April 2022, a position she previously held from 2019 to 2020. She previously s ...

. Filler-Corn was the Speaker of the House from 2020 to 2022.

Geography

District 41 represents parts of

and

Elections

first took office on March 3, 2010, after winning a special election the day before: she defeated Republican Kerry Bolognese by 37 votes. She was reelected again in 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017. In 2019, Filler-Corn became the Minority Leader (Leader of the Democratic Caucus) of the House of Delegates. In the November 2019 general election, Filler-Corn ran against Libertarian Rachel Mace and Independent John Wolfe. She won with 71.6% of the vote. In the

2023 Virginia House of Delegates election The 2023 Virginia House of Delegates election took place on November 7, 2023, concurrently with elections for the 2023 Virginia Senate election, Virginia Senate, to elect members of the 163rd Virginia General Assembly. All 100 delegates were el ...

, Republican

was elected.

References

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