The 2025 General and Special Elections will be held next Tuesday, November 4. Early in-person voting is open until Saturday, November 1, and voting by mail must be postmarked on or before November 4, 2025. Polls are open 6 am – 7 pm next Tuesday. All 100 seats of the House of Delegates, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General candidates are on the ballot.

The Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP) will sponsor After Virginia Votes on November 13 from 7 – 8:30 pm. This virtual event brings together panelists from both sides of the aisle for a civil discussion on election outcomes.

On Monday, October 27, a special session of the Virginia House of Delegates convened to discuss redistricting and plans to redraw Virginia’s congressional map. A proposed amendment would have to go through the committee process in both the House and Senate and then three “readings” before it could be voted on in either chamber. Virginia requires that proposed constitutional amendments pass the General Assembly twice, with a legislative election in between.

With no end in sight to the federal government shutdown, funding for the nation’s largest food assistance program (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), will disappear at the start of November, according to the Department of Agriculture. More than 1.6 million people across D.C., Maryland and Virginia receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, and an increasing number of residents have also been experiencing food insecurity as federal layoffs have strained thousands of families’ budgets.

Governor Youngkin announced a plan for the state to use its surplus to provide stopgap funding to SNAP recipients until the federal government reopens.