Danville, Virginia: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election and Danville City Council general and special elections votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Warner seat: Warner D (I) v Mizusawa R); U.S. Representative VA-5 (McGuire R (I) v Perriello D v Harvey I); Danville City Council — four at-large seats, four-year terms (nine candidates) and one special seat to 2028-12-31 (Marshall (I) v Lipscomb); Danville School Board, three seats (four candidates; not recorded); statewide constitutional amendments (not re-read). No Governor or General Assembly race in 2026..

Holding office15
the sitting council
On the ballot16
7 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Danville, Virginia is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): Virginia's 5th congressional district (City Hall, and every sampled point in the city) — John J. McGuire III (Republican)

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Council Member

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Barry Mayo Elected Council Member Independent At-Large City of Danville
J. Lee Vogler Elected Council Member Independent At-Large City of Danville
L.G. "Larry" Campbell, Jr. Elected Council Member Independent At-Large City of Danville
Sherman Saunders Elected Council Member Independent At-Large City of Danville
A. Bryant Hood Elected Council Member → Running Independent At-Large City of Danville
Danny Marshall Elected Council Member → Running Independent At-Large City of Danville
Gary P. Miller Elected Council Member → Running Independent At-Large City of Danville
James B. Buckner Elected Council Member → Running Independent At-Large City of Danville
Dustin C. Whittle Council Member Running Independent At-Large Virginia Department of Elections
Jasmine D. "Wisdom" Lipscomb Council Member Running Independent At-Large Virginia Department of Elections
Lonnie F. Jones Council Member Running Independent At-Large Virginia Department of Elections
Shakeva Q. Frazier Council Member Running Independent At-Large Virginia Department of Elections
Shelby J. Irving Council Member Running Independent At-Large Virginia Department of Elections
Tony D. L. Howerton Council Member Running Independent At-Large Virginia Department of Elections
2

Member City Council

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Alonzo L. Jones Elected Mayor → Running for Member City Council Independent At-Large City of Danville
3

Delegate — HD-49

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Madison Whittle ✉️ Elected Delegate Republican Virginia House of Delegates
4

Governor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Abigail D. Spanberger Elected Governor Democratic Office of the Governor of Virginia
5

State Senator — SD-9

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Tammy Brankley Mulchi ✉️ Elected State Senator Republican Senate of Virginia
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U.S. Senator

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Tim Kaine Elected U.S. Senator Democratic @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json)
Mark R. Warner Elected U.S. Senator → Running Democratic Virginia Department of Elections
Bert Mizusawa U.S. Senator Running Republican Virginia Department of Elections
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U.S. Representative — VA-5

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
John J. McGuire III Elected U.S. Representative → Running Republican Office of the Clerk, U.S. House
Cooke C. Harvey U.S. Representative Running Independent Virginia Department of Elections
Tom S. P. Perriello U.S. Representative Running Democratic Virginia Department of Elections
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Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

  • Candidates: Virginia Department of Elections HTML lists 'November 3, 2026 - Federal Offices' and 'Local Offices' (DANVILLE CITY rows), retrieved 2026-11-01. robots.txt allows the HTML pages and disallows *.csv/*.xls/*.xlsx/*.json, so download files were not used. Parties and Incumbent flags as printed; city council candidates are all listed 'Independent' (non-partisan ballot) and recorded party null / partyShort 'None' with ballotParty kept. Phones, street addresses and personal-style webmail not copied; campaign-domain emails and campaign-named addresses (e.g. 'frazierforcouncil@…') kept as campaignEmail; campaign websites kept. Write-ins skipped.
  • Districts: Census geocoder (robots 404) City Hall match '427 PATTON ST, DANVILLE, VA, 24541' (36.58696,-79.39147): CD-5, SD-9, HD-49. 6x6 grid (14 points inside 'Danville city'): all CD-5, SD-9, HD-49; the /local centre 36.584658,-79.4133 gives the same.
  • Sitting state legislators: Mulchi (SD-9) from the Senate of Virginia member index and page S131; Whittle (HD-49) from house.vga.virginia.gov H0401 (Member since January 14, 2026; the HD-49 description names the City of Danville). Official legislature emails kept; phones and office addresses not copied. Governor Spanberger carried from earlier records.
  • Municipal: City of Danville 'Members of the Council' (www.danville-va.gov/386; robots has a ClaudeBot group that disallows only admin/search/calendar/CivicAlerts/RSS-type paths — none opened) — nine members elected at large for four-year staggered terms; Council elects the Mayor and Vice Mayor from its members for two-year terms. Each member's own page gives Current Term; terms and photo links come from those pages. No individual emails are printed (a contact form only).
  • Council on the ballot: of the five members whose terms end 2026-12-31, Alonzo L. Jones (Mayor), James B. Buckner (Vice Mayor), Gary P. Miller and A. Bryant Hood are running for the four regular seats (ELECT Incumbent 'Yes'); Danny Marshall — appointed February 17, 2026 to an unexpired term, and HD-49 Delegate 2002-2025 per his city page — is running in the special election for the seat whose term ends 2028-12-31. New candidates: Lonnie F. Jones, Tony D. L. Howerton, Shakeva Q. Frazier, Shelby J. Irving, Dustin C. Whittle (regular) and Jasmine D. 'Wisdom' Lipscomb (special). Campbell, Mayo, Saunders and Vogler hold terms to 2028-12-31.
  • Next municipal election after this one: November 2028 (the four seats with terms ending 2028-12-31), per the members' printed terms. Not recorded: school board (four candidates for three seats), constitutional officers, judges. standsFor null for everyone. Ballotpedia and Wikipedia not used.
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Prepared 2026-11-01. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.