Residents of Gloucester and Mathews counties, currently in Virginia’s 1st Congressional District, would be placed in the 8th Congressional District if voters approve a proposed constitutional amendment question in an April 21 statewide special election. The new 8th District, shown in the map above, would extend from Arlington, Fairfax and Woodbridge in Northern Virginia all the way down to Williamsburg. Democratic state legislators proposed the mid-decade redistricting to create 10 Democratic-leaning districts and one Republican district in the state in response to efforts in Texas and elsewhere to increase the number of Republican members in the U.S. House of Representatives in this year’s Congressional elections. The proposed 8th District would lean Democratic by over 63 percent, based on results from last year’s governor’s election. According to the proposed constitutional amendment, the standard redistricting process would resume after the 2030 census. Whether the April special ele...