Talk:Virginia's congressional districts

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2010?[edit]

remaining at 11 seats? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.82.43.222 (talk) 18:04, 29 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why is this page so horribly vague and poorly notated? It's atrocious to read and unforgivingly convoluted to use. You can't find your congressional House member and the vast majority is antiquated crap about people that haven't served in years. I would expect better, but, living in Virginia, I know that such ideal of "better" will never surface. "Dilapidated" is probably the best description that most properties and congressional ideals could ever live up to. 96.238.184.90 (talk) 10:58, 12 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2016 court-ordered redistricting[edit]

The 2016 court-ordred redistricting per http://redistricting.dls.virginia.gov/2010/court-ordered-redistricting.aspx and http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/273764-supreme-court-weighs-legality-of-virginia-redistricting will be important this year. The Plan 16 map is Drf5n (talk) 04:38, 10 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Several of the individual maps on this page still need to be updated. Wickedjacob (talk) 03:12, 1 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Article rating[edit]

@Drf5n, Americus55, and Nevermore27: Thank you for your contributions to this article. I have made several recent contributions and note that it previously had more material than several other articles rated start-class "[state] congressional districts”. I have promoted the article to B-class for the Wikipedia Project Virginia; it takes two other editors to promote an article to A-class. Further comments and contributions are welcome. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 09:19, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

B-class criteria to A-class status[edit]

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Thanks in advance for any comments and contributions towards advancing the article further. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 15:51, 16 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Move discussion in progress[edit]

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Obsolete Districts - District boundaries 2017-2023[edit]

I've uploaded the previous congressional map under obsolete districts. This adds the previous wiki picture under the statewide tab: commons:File:VA_2016_Redistricting.png. I thought it was better than nothing, but just noting that it is inconsistent with the previous map, and lacks the Norfolk highlight. Sb101FV (talk) 04:32, 12 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]