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The 2019 general election was held on Tuesday November 5, 2019. All 140 members of the Virginia General Assembly (House of Delegates and State Senate) were up for reelection. Locally, among the elections were three of the five seats on the Charlottesville City Council, three of the six seats on the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors

2019 Municipal Election Dates
January 2, 2019 Candidate filing period opens.[1]
January 2, 2019 Independent candidates filing starting for this election
February 27, 2019 State Board of Elections issued Official Order calling for Tueday, June 11, 2019 Party Primaries [2]
March 11, 2019, at 12 p.m. Primary candidates filing starting for this election
March 12, 2019 Charlottesville Board of Elections scheduled April 3, 2019 as date to conduct random draw to determine ballot order City Council candidates
March 28, 2019, at 5:00 p.m. Primary candidates filing deadline for this election.[3]
April 2, 2019 Parties last day to file for Primary to be held on Tuesday, June 11, 2019.[4]
April 3, 2019 at 5:45 p.m. Charlottesville Board of Elections conducted random draw to determine ballot order City Council candidates who qualified for the June 11 Democratic primary.[5]
April 25, 2019 Parties first day to file for General Election.[6]
June 11, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. Independent candidates last day to file for General Election.[7]
June 11, 2019 Parties last day to file for General Election.[8]
June 11, 2019 Primary Election for Democratic and Republican candidates.[9]
November 5, 2019 General Election

2019 Local Elections in the Charlottesville Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)

Locality Office Title District Incumbent Political Party Candidate Name
1 Albemarle County Commonwealth's Attorney Albemarle County Democratic Jim M. Hingeley
2 Albemarle County Commonwealth's Attorney Albemarle County Yes Republican Robert N. Tracci
3 Albemarle County Member Board of Supervisors Rivanna District Democratic Bea LaPisto Kirtley
4 Albemarle County Member Board of Supervisors Scottsville District Democratic Donna Paula Price
5 Albemarle County Member Board of Supervisors Scottsville District Republican Michael J. Hallahan II
6 Albemarle County Member Board of Supervisors White Hall District Republican Steve Harvey II
7 Albemarle County Member Board of Supervisors White Hall District Yes Democratic Ann Huckle Mallek
8 Albemarle County Member School Board Rivanna District Independent Judy N. Le
9 Albemarle County Member School Board Rivanna District Independent Juliana Ko Arsali
10 Albemarle County Member School Board Scottsville District Independent Ellen Moore Osborne
11 Albemarle County Member School Board White Hall District Yes Independent David Dean Oberg
12 Albemarle County Member School Board At Large Albemarle County Independent Anne Elizabeth Oliver
13 Albemarle County Member School Board At Large Albemarle County Yes Independent J. S. "Jonno" Alcaro
14 Albemarle County Sheriff Albemarle County Democratic Chan R. Bryant
15 Albemarle County Sheriff Albemarle County Independent Ronnie R. Roberts
16 Albemarle County Soil and Water Conservation Director Thomas Jefferson District Albemarle County Yes Independent Lonnie M. Murray
17 Albemarle County Soil and Water Conservation Director Thomas Jefferson District Albemarle County Yes Independent Steven G. Meeks
1 Charlottesville City Clerk of Court Charlottesville City Yes Democratic Llezelle A. Dugger
2 Charlottesville City Member City Council Charlottesville City Democratic J. Lloyd Snook, III
3 Charlottesville City Member City Council Charlottesville City Democratic Michael K. Payne
4 Charlottesville City Member City Council Charlottesville City Democratic Sena A. Magill
5 Charlottesville City Member City Council Charlottesville City Independent Bellamy W. Brown
6 Charlottesville City Member City Council Charlottesville City Independent John Edward Hall
7 Charlottesville City Member City Council Charlottesville City Independent Paul Edward Long
8 Charlottesville City Member School Board Charlottesville City Independent Chris W. Meyer
9 Charlottesville City Member School Board Charlottesville City Independent Lashundra L. Bryson Morsberger
10 Charlottesville City Member School Board Charlottesville City Yes Independent James Edward Bryant
11 Charlottesville City Member School Board Charlottesville City Yes Independent Jennifer L. McKeever
12 Charlottesville City Member School Board Charlottesville City Yes Independent Sherry P. Kraft
13 Charlottesville City Soil and Water Conservation Director Thomas Jefferson District Charlottesville City Yes Independent Joseph W. Thompson
1 Fluvanna County Commissioner of Revenue Fluvanna County Yes Independent A. M. "Mel" Sheridan, Jr.
2 Fluvanna County Commonwealth's Attorney Fluvanna County Yes Independent Jeffrey W. Haislip
3 Fluvanna County Member Board of Supervisors Fork Union District Yes Independent Mozell H. Booker
4 Fluvanna County Member Board of Supervisors Palmyra District Yes Independent Patricia B. Eager
5 Fluvanna County Member School Board Fork Union District Yes Independent Perrie J. Johnson
6 Fluvanna County Member School Board Palmyra District Independent James B. Kelley
7 Fluvanna County Sheriff Fluvanna County Yes Independent Eric B. Hess
8 Fluvanna County Soil and Water Conservation Director Thomas Jefferson District Fluvanna County Yes Independent Angus A. Murdock
9 Fluvanna County Soil and Water Conservation Director Thomas Jefferson District Fluvanna County Yes Independent Thomas A. "Tom" Pratley
10 Fluvanna County Treasurer Fluvanna County Independent Ben L. Hudson
11 Fluvanna County Treasurer Fluvanna County Independent Kim P. Oliver-Hyland
12 Fluvanna County Treasurer Fluvanna County Yes Independent Linda H. Lenherr
1 Greene County Clerk of Court Greene County Independent Amber L. Knight
2 Greene County Clerk of Court Greene County Independent Steve G. Keene
3 Greene County Clerk of Court Greene County Independent Susan E. Birckhead
4 Greene County Clerk of Court Greene County Republican Piper D. Doeppe
5 Greene County Commissioner of Revenue Greene County Independent Peggy McDaniel Ganoe
6 Greene County Commissioner of Revenue Greene County Yes Independent Larry V. "Percy" Snow
7 Greene County Commonwealth's Attorney Greene County Independent Edwin R. "Win" Consolvo
8 Greene County Commonwealth's Attorney Greene County Yes Republican Matthew D. Hardin
9 Greene County Member Board of Supervisors Monroe District Republican Stephen C. "Steve" Bowman
10 Greene County Member Board of Supervisors Monroe District Yes Independent David L. Cox
11 Greene County Member Board of Supervisors Ruckersville District Independent Davis M. Lamb
12 Greene County Member Board of Supervisors Ruckersville District Independent Tom J. Flynn
13 Greene County Member Board of Supervisors At Large Greene County Republican James K. Murphy Jr.
14 Greene County Member Board of Supervisors At Large Greene County Yes Independent Dale R. Herring
15 Greene County Member School Board Monroe District Independent Todd Michael Sansom
16 Greene County Member School Board Ruckersville District Yes Independent Sharon L. Mack
17 Greene County Member School Board At Large Greene County Independent Jason M. Tooley
18 Greene County Member School Board At Large Greene County Yes Independent Harry A. Daniel
19 Greene County Sheriff Greene County Independent Kenneth R. Collier Sr.
20 Greene County Sheriff Greene County Republican Spurgeon W. "Billy" Wade, III
21 Greene County Sheriff Greene County Yes Independent Steven S. Smith
22 Greene County Soil and Water Conservation Director Culpeper District Greene County Yes Independent Philip C. Morris
23 Greene County Soil and Water Conservation Director Culpeper District Greene County Yes Independent Robert E. Runkle
24 Greene County Treasurer Greene County Yes Independent Stephanie Allen Deal
1 Nelson County Commissioner of Revenue Nelson County Democratic Pamela C. Campbell
2 Nelson County Commonwealth's Attorney Nelson County Republican Daniel Lee Rutherford
3 Nelson County Member Board of Supervisors South District Democratic Robert G. "Skip" Barton Jr.
4 Nelson County Member Board of Supervisors South District Republican Larry D. Saunders
5 Nelson County Member Board of Supervisors West District Republican J. David Parr
6 Nelson County Member School Board South District Yes Independent Ceaser N. Perkins
7 Nelson County Member School Board West District Independent Shannon Rothgeb Powell
8 Nelson County Sheriff Nelson County Independent David W. Hill
9 Nelson County Sheriff Nelson County Republican Daniel B. Jones
10 Nelson County Soil and Water Conservation Director Thomas Jefferson District Nelson County Independent David L. Collins
11 Nelson County Soil and Water Conservation Director Thomas Jefferson District Nelson County Independent Kelsey A. Cowger
12 Nelson County Soil and Water Conservation Director Thomas Jefferson District Nelson County Independent Mark H. Campbell
13 Nelson County Soil and Water Conservation Director Thomas Jefferson District Nelson County Independent W. F. "Bill" Plyler II
14 Nelson County Treasurer Nelson County Yes Democratic Angela F. "Angi" Hicks

2019 Statewide Elections in the Charlottesville Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)

Office Title District Incumbent Political Party Candidate Name Campaign City
Member House of Delegates 25 Democratic Jennifer L. Kitchen Craigsville
Member House of Delegates 25 Independent Janice L. Allen Rockingham
Member House of Delegates 25 Republican Chris S. Runion Bridgewater
Member House of Delegates 57 Democratic Sally L. Hudson Charlottesville
Member House of Delegates 58 Democratic Elizabeth A. Alcorn Dyke
Member House of Delegates 58 Yes Republican Robert B. Bell III Charlottesville
Member Senate of Virginia 17 Democratic Amy J. Laufer Keswick
Member Senate of Virginia 17 Yes Republican Bryce E. Reeves Fredericksburg
Member Senate of Virginia 25 Independent Elliott M. Harding Charlottesville
Member Senate of Virginia 25 Yes Democratic R. Creigh Deeds Charlottesville

Source: Candidate Lists & Referendums Virginia Department of Elections (Revised 9/9/19)

Albemarle County

Each Virginia county has an elected board of supervisors, which exercises legislative powers, enacting ordinances(local laws) and adopting an annual budget.

Albemarle County is divided into six magisterial (supervisor) districts.

Elections for supervisor and school board will be held in the Rivanna, Scottsville and White Hall magisterial districts. [10]

Board of Supervisors

Rivanna District

Incumbent Norman Dill announced early in 2019 that he would not seek a second term. [11]

Jerrod Smith and Bea LaPisto Kirtley both sought the the Democratic nomination for the November ballot. [12] [13] They held their only campaign forum of the primary election in mid-May at the Northside Library. [14] LaPisto Kirtley won the nomination and has no opposition on the ballot. However, a resident named Frank McCicche appeared on WINA in early July and told host Rob Schilling he would consider running a write-in campaign. [15]


Candidates Votes %
Bea LaPisto Kirtley (D) 896 54.2
Jerrod Smith (D) 757 45.8
Source: Virginia State Board of Elections[16]

Scottsville District

Incumbent Rick Randolph will not seek a second term. [17] [11]

January 29, 2019: Defense attorney Mike Hallahan has announced he would run for the Republican nomination for the seat. [18]

Donna Paula Price filed paperwork to seek the Democratic nomination. [19] She announced her campaign on June 1, 2019. [20]

White Hall District

on Tuesday, January 16, 2019: Incumbent Ann Mallek announced she would seek a fourth term. [11] Republican Steve Harvey announced he would challenge Mallek, her first opponent since 2007. [21]

School Board

Rivanna District

Incumbent Jason Buyaki, who has been on the board since 2011, will not seek another term on the board. [22]


Three candidates have filed paperwork for the open seat. They are Juliana Arsali, Nina Kaplan and Judy Le. [23] [24] [25]

Scottsville District

Incumbent Steve Koleszar, who has been on the board since 1996, announced in January that he will not seek re-election.[26]

Ellen Moore Osborne has announced she will run for the seat. [27] [28] She won election with 4,297 votes. [29]

White Hall District

Incumbent David Oberg will seek a second four-year term. [30]

At-Large Representative

Incumbent Jonna Alcaro hasn't made a decision on re-election.

Commonwealth's Attorney

Commonwealth’s Attorney Robert Tracci, a Republican, is planning to seek re-election to a second four-year term. He made his announcement on June 25. [31]

Jim Hingeley, a former public defender and University of Virginia professor, has filed to challenge Tracci as a Democrat. [32]

Sheriff

Sheriff Chip Harding, a Republican, plans to step down after 12 years in the post. [33]

Chief Deputy Chan Bryant was the first candidate to run for sheriff as a Democrat. [34]

Patrick Estes, a former UVA football player, also ran in the Democratic primary. [35] He and Bryant are on the ballot for the June 11 primary. [36]

Bryant won the nomination in the June 11, 2019 primary.


Candidates Votes %
Chan Bryant (D) 4,527 63.65
Patrick Estes (D) 2,585 36.35
Source: Virginia State Board of Elections[37]

Ronnie Roberts, a former Charlottesville police officer and current chief of police in Louisa, will also seek the position. [38]

Soil & Water Conservation District Director

Two county seats on the nonpartisan board of directors for the Thomas Jefferson Soil and Water Conservation District are up for election.

Directors Steven Meeks and Lonnie Murray plan to seek re-election. [32]

Navarre Bartz, a local resident and member of the PLACE Design Task Force, won as a write-in candidate for the open seat in the city. Joseph Thompson was re-elected. [39]

City of Charlottesville

General election will include: City Council (3 of 5 seats), Charlottesville City School Board (4 of 7 seats), Soil & Water Conservation District Director and the Clerk of Court.

Charlottesville uses a council-manager system. In this form of municipal government, the president of the council (mayor) serves on the city council—the city's primary legislative body. Since the 1928 election, all five council members have been elected at-large. Charlottesville City School Board Members have been elected by the voters since the 2006 election, prior to that, they were appointed by City Council.

City Council

Three of the five seats on the Charlottesville City Council are open. The first terms of Democrats Wes Bellamy and Mike Signer, as well as the second term of Kathy Galvin, were up on December 31, 2019.

Independents Bellamy Brown, Paul Long and John Hall; and Democrats Lloyd Snook, Michael Payne and Sena Magill were on the general election ballot. No Republicans run for the council.

On Sept. 18th, Charlottesville Area Transit posted a tweet that appeared to endorse Michael Payne. It was deleted later that day and called a "mistake" by the city staffer. [40]

Timeline of Events

  • January 8, 2019: Housing activist Michael Payne (D) announced his candidacy. Don Gathers (D) was scheduled to announce on the same Progressives for Cville ticket, but has had to delay to health issues. At that time it was unclear when or if he will re-enter the race. [41]
  • January 9, 2019: City resident and Democrat Sena Magill (D) made her announcement. [42]
  • Thursday, January 10, 2019: Lloyd Snook (D) announces his council bid and joined "a quickly growing field of candidates for three seats on Charlottesville City Council". [43]
  • January 10, 2019: Brian Pinkston (D), a project manager at the University of Virginia, announced he would also run as a Democrat. [44]
  • February 18, 2019: Former Charlottesville City Councilor Bob Fenwick (D) said that he would run as a Democrat for one of three vacant seats on the council. An official announcement was planned for March. [45] Bob Fenwick twice ran as an independent before becoming a Democrat in 2013.[citation needed]
  • Independent candidates John Edward Hall (I) and Paul Long (I) also announced they would seek election. [44] However, Hall later dropped out, but rebooted his campaign in time for the filing deadline. [46]
  • Thursday, March 28, 2019, 5:00 p.m.: Candidate filing deadline for this election.
  • As of June 1, 2019, the total reported number of eligible voters registered in the City of Charlottesville was 32,291.[48]
  • June 11, 2019: The Democratic primary
Candidates Votes %
Michael Payne (D) 3,657 24.98
Lloyd Snook (D) 3,501 23.91
Sena Magill (D) 3,183 21.74
Brian Pinkston (D) 3,073 20.99
Bob Fenwick (D) 1,277 8.38
Source: Virginia State Board of Elections[49]


  • Voters could select up to three candidate
  • June 29, 2019 Independent candidate Bellamy Brown (I), who grew up in the city’s Venable neighborhood, stood in the sanctuary of the Rosser Avenue church his grandfather founded and formally announced his run for the council.[50]
  • November 5, 2019: General Election
Candidate Vote Count %
Sena Amelia Magill 8,438 26.0%
John Lloyd Snook, III (D) 8,151 25.1%
Michael Keith Payne (D) 7,833 24.1%
Bellamy Warren Brown (I) 5,751 17.7%
Paul Edward Long (I) 1,256 3.9%
John Edward Hall (I) 838 2.6%
All Others 236 0.7%
Total Votes Cast 32,503
Source: Virginia State Board of Elections

Election records show that 32,503 votes were cast at this election for the office of city council. In the election, three City Council seats were open, allowing each voter to cast as many as three votes.

Campaign forums

Campaign Finance

In the first campaign finance report of the year, Snook reported $28,433 in contributions for the period from January 1 to March 31. [57]

Sena Magill raised $7,872 in the period. Magill started the year with a balance of $11,723, including a $10,000 gift from Sonjia Smith. [58]

Brian Pinkston raised $10,182 in the period. So far, Pinkston has spent $2,211 on the campaign, including $999 to himself as a vendor. [59]

Michael Payne raised $9,281 in the period. [60]

Bellamy Brown, an independent candidate who joined the race in late March, reported $50 in the period. [61]

Fenwick filed a paper report and raised $849. [62]

Neither John Edward Hall or Paul Long, independents in the race, raised any money in the first quarter of the year.

City School Board

There are five candidates seeking four seats on the Charlottesville School Board in this cycle. In the 2018-2019 school year, Charlottesville City Public School enrollment was 4,561 K-12 students (Albemarle County Public School enrollment was 14,013 K-12 students.)[63]

Board members Sherry Kraft and Jennifer McKeever are seeking re-election.

Board member James Bryant, who was appointed to fill a vacancy earlier this year, is running for a full, four-year term. [32] Newcomers Christopher Meyer and Lashundra Bryson Morsberger are also on the ballot. [64]

A candidate forum was held by Charlottesville Tomorrow and Virginia Public Media in October 2019. [65]

In January 2019, board member Amy Laufer resigned after moving out of the city, and is instead running for State Senate District 17. [66] Former member and chair Ned Michie returned to the board on an interim basis to replace Laufer, but did not want to run for a full term.

Soil & Water Conservation District Director

Two city seats on the nonpartisan board of directors for the Thomas Jefferson Soil and Water Conservation District are up for election. Director Joseph Thompson will seek re-election. Director Kim Tingley will not seek re-election. Albemarle Directors Steven Meeks and Lonnie Murray plan to seek re-election. [32] Director Joseph Thompson is the only candidate registered for the two available seats in Charlottesville city.[67] Navarre Bartz, a local resident and member of the PLACE Design Task Force, is running as a write-in candidate for the other seat.[68].

Charlottesville's Clerk of the Circuit Court

The Office of Clerk of the Circuit Court is an elected office serving an 8-year term. Incumbent Llezelle Dugger (D) is seeking re-election. [32]

Virginia General Assembly

Heading this off-year election, the Republican Party has a 51-49 majority in the Virginia House of Delegates. (Republicans also have a 21-19 majority in the State Senate. The governor is not up for election in 2019.)

House of Delegates

The Virginia House of Delegates is one of two parts in the Virginia General Assembly, the other being the Senate of Virginia. It has 100 members elected for terms of two years. See also current Virginia House of Delegates Member Listings

House of Delegates 57th District

House of Delegates District 57 Description: Representing the 57th District, Charlottesville and part of Albemarle County. The total number of eligible voters registered in Virginia's 57th House of Delegates District as of 6/1/2019: 59,830 (including 32,291 in the City of Charlottesville).[69]

Hillary Clinton (D) received 79.68% of the vote in District 57 in the 2016 presidential election compared to 13.17% for Donald Trump (R).[70]

Incumbent Democrat David Toscano announced early in 2019 that he would retire from the Virginia General Assembly. [71] From November 2011 through December 2018, Toscano had served as House Democratic Leader.

UVa Economics Professor Sally Hudson announced a primary challenge in late 2018. [32] However, Toscano announced his retirement from office on February 23, 2019.

Charlottesville City Councilor Kathy Galvin announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination on March 14. [72]


Candidates Votes %
Sally Hudson (D) 6,148 65.54
Kathy Galvin (D) 3,232 34.46
Source: Virginia State Board of Elections[73]

House of Delegates 58th District

House of Delegates District 58 Description: Representing Greene County and parts of Albemarle, Fluvanna, and Rockingham counties

Incumbent Republican Rob Bell was elected to the chamber in 2001 and was re-elected to a new term in 2017. He is seeking re-election.[32]

Democrat Elizabeth Alcorn announced in late February that she will seek her party's nomination for the seat. [74]

House of Delegates 25th District

House of Delegates District 25 Description: Representing counties of Albemarle (part), Augusta (part), and Rockingham (part)

Delegate Landes announced in early March that he would not seek a 13th term representing the 25th District.[75]

Soon after, three candidates came forward to contest the Republican nomination. They are businessman Chris Runion, Augusta County Supervisor and JMU professor Marshall Pattie and Albemarle County farmer Richard Fox. [76] Runion won the Republican primary on April 27 with 1,299 votes. Pattie received 1,041 votes and Fox received 744. [77]

Two Democrats sought the nomination to run in the general election. They are Jennifer Kitchen of Augusta County and Lauren Thompson of Albemarle County. [76] [32] Kitchen emerged as the candidate.[78]

State Senate

State Senate 25th District

District 25 Description: Covers part of Albemarle County, all of Charlottesville, Buena Vista, Covington and Lexington, and all of Alleghany, Bath, Nelson, Highland and Rockbridge counties

Representing the 25th District, Sen. R. Creigh Deeds, D-Bath, plans to seek re-election to the 25th District seat, which . He has served since 2001. [32] Albemarle County resident Elliot Harding filed plans to run as an independent in the race. [79] [80]

State Senate 17th District

District 17 Description: Orange County (All), Spotsylvania County (Part), Fredericksburg City (All), Culpeper County (Part), Albemarle County (Part), Louisa County (Part)

Sen. Bryce Reeves (R-Spotsylvania), who is in his second term, will seek re-election. He is chairman of the Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services committee. Rich Breeden of Spotsylvania, vice president of Kingfisher Systems Inc., has announced plans to seek the Republican nomination for Reeves’ seat. [32]

Amy Laufer will challenge as the Democratic nominee.

Becoming a Candidate

Candidates for office must meet certain qualifications and are required to file specific documents in order to qualify to appear on the ballot. These qualifications and requirements may vary slightly depending on whether the office sought is a local office, a general assembly seat, a statewide office, or a federal office. Generally, all candidates must meet the following minimum qualifications:

  • Be qualified to vote for and hold the office sought, and
  • Be a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia for one year immediately preceding the election.

The board has developed and published candidate informational bulletins specific to each office type. (Local and Constitutional Offices Requirements for the June 11, 2019 Primary Elections and November 5, 2019 General Elections.) In addition to the qualifications, forms and filing requirements, candidate information bulletins provide candidates with information he/she will need to run for office.[81]

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