The Virginia House of Delegates election of 1981 was held on Tuesday, November 3. Primary elections were held on September 8, 1981.
The districts were established by the
Assembly Act of August 11, 1981 (Acts of Assembly, 1981 Special Session, Chapter 5). They were challenged in
Federal District Court
The United States district courts are the trial courts of the U.S. federal judiciary. There is one district court for each federal judicial district. Each district covers one U.S. state or a portion of a state. There is at least one feder ...
, which found the map unconstitutional in ''Cosner v. Dalton''. The Court allowed the 1981 elections to proceed under the August 11, 1981 Act, but for a one-year term only. A new general election would thus be held in November 1982, under a new map.
The 50 multi-member districts, electing 100 delegates in total, were as follows (52, without a 31st or 40th district):
See also
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1981 United States elections
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1981 Virginia elections
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1981 Virginia gubernatorial election
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1981 Virginia lieutenant gubernatorial election
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1981 Virginia Attorney General election
References
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