Virginia elects 100 members of the House of Delegates on November 2, 2021. There are five independent candidates, four Libertarians, and one Independent Green Party candidate. Here is the list.

In the gubernatorial election, Princess L. Blanding not only qualified to appear on the ballot, she was able to place her party name, Liberation, on the ballot. To do that, she had to show that the Liberation Party has a chairperson in every one of Virginia’s nine U.S. House districts. Here is an article about her.

The Delaware Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee will hear HB 30 on Wednesday, June 30, at noon. This is the bill that moves the non-presidential primary from September to late April. Unfortunately it also moves the deadline for new parties to qualify from August to early April, and even requires already-qualified minor parties (which nominate by convention) to submit their nominees by April 1.

Fairvote has posted this short video about Congressman Don Beyer’s proportional representation bill for congressional elections, introduced earlier this month. In states with more than two representatives, the bill would create U.S. House districts with five representatives (or, in some cases, four or three representatives). They would be elected using the single transferable vote system that is used in Ireland, Australia, Malta, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was also used in New York city 1937-1946. It is a system of proportional representation.

Congressman Beyer is a Democrat from Virginia’s 8th district. The bill has 7 co-sponsors so far.