UPDATE 🙅🏽♀️ 2023 Black Candidate Chart #Virginia
UPDATE 🙅🏽♀️ 2023 Black Candidate Chart #Virginia
CANDIDATE CHART UPDATE. 🚀 Below is an updated chart of Black candidates running for the Virginia General Assembly in 2023. More Black candidates are running for office than at any other time in Virginia and a historic number of Black candidates will be on the ballot for the June 20, 2023 primary. ➡️ Download a PDF of the chart below:
Additions since chart one ➡️ Myra Payne (SD19), Jolicia Ward (SD25), Karen Keys-Gamarra (HD07), Natan McKenzie (SD12), Henri Thompson (HD15), Travis Nembhard (HD22) and John Dantzler (HD80). 🏃🏾♂️
More candidates will file before the April 6, 2023 filing deadline.
There’s a historic number of Black candidates 🏃🏾♂️ RUNNING in VIRGINIA 2023 two years after three African Americans appeared on the ballot in the Democratic primary for Governor for the first time in Virginia’s history. That same year, the first Black female Lt. Governor, Winsome Sears, was elected. Enjoy the chart above.
The above charts will be updated regularly.
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