Richmond: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election and Richmond special/referendum elections (with three proposed constitutional amendments) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Warner seat); U.S. Representative, VA-4; Richmond School Board District 6 special election (District 6 voters only); three proposed Virginia constitutional amendments (reproductive freedom; marriage; voting rights); City of Richmond local sales tax referendum (up to 1% for school construction, expiring by June 30, 2046). No Governor, General Assembly, Mayor, City Council or constitutional-officer race in 2026..

Holding office20

the sitting council

On the ballot5

2 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Richmond is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): Virginia's 4th congressional district (all of the city: every Richmond precinct is listed in Congress District 4 by the Office of Elections, and City Hall geocodes to CD-4) — Jennifer L. McClellan (Democratic)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Danny Avula ✉️ Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of Richmond

City Treasurer

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Nichole R. Armstead ✉️ Elected	City Treasurer	Independent	city-wide	City of Richmond

Clerk of the Circuit Court

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Edward F. Jewett Elected	Clerk of the Circuit Court	Independent	city-wide	City of Richmond

Commonwealth's Attorney

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Colette Wallace McEachin Elected	Commonwealth's Attorney	Independent	city-wide	City of Richmond

Council Member

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Andrew S. Breton ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 1	City of Richmond
Cynthia I. Newbille ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 7	City of Richmond
Ellen F. Robertson ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 6	City of Richmond
Katherine Jordan ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 2	City of Richmond
Kenya J. Gibson ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 3	City of Richmond
Nicole Jones ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 9	City of Richmond
Reva M. Trammell ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 8	City of Richmond
Sarah Abubaker ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 4	City of Richmond
Stephanie A. Lynch ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 5	City of Richmond

Sheriff

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Antionette V. Irving ✉️ Elected	Sheriff	Independent	city-wide	City of Richmond

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Abigail D. Spanberger Elected	Governor	Democratic		Office of the Governor of Virginia

Member of the House of Delegates — HD-78

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Betsy B. Carr ✉️ Elected	Member of the House of Delegates	Democratic		Virginia House of Delegates

State Senator — SD-14

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Lamont Bagby ✉️ Elected	State Senator	Democratic		Senate of Virginia

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Tim Kaine Elected	U.S. Senator	Democratic	@unitedstates congress-legislators (CC0)
Mark R. Warner Elected	U.S. Senator → Running	Democratic	Virginia Department of Elections
Bert Mizusawa	U.S. Senator Running	Republican	Virginia Department of Elections

U.S. Representative — VA-4

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Jennifer L. McClellan Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic	Virginia Department of Elections
Joan E. "Andrews" Bell	U.S. Representative Running	Independent	Virginia Department of Elections
Robert P. "Family Man" Murray, Jr.	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Virginia Department of Elections

Notes on this record

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

Candidates: Virginia Department of Elections HTML candidate lists — 'November 3, 2026 - Federal Offices' (updated 10/6/26) and 'Local Offices' (updated 10/9/26) — cross-checked name-for-name against the City of Richmond sample ballot (Electoral Board of the City of Richmond, Ballot Style 001, 'General and Special Elections, Tuesday, November 3, 2026', PDF Last-Modified 2026-09-16; image PDF read visually). They agree exactly: U.S. Senate Mark R. Warner (D, incumbent) vs Bert Mizusawa (R); VA-4 Jennifer L. McClellan (D, incumbent) vs Robert P. "Family Man" Murray, Jr. (R) and Joan E. "Andrews" Bell (I). ELECT's robots.txt disallows *.csv/*.xlsx/*.json, so the downloadable files were not used; the HTML pages are allowed. Write-ins excluded. No race in Richmond is unopposed.
The only Richmond row on the ELECT Local Offices list is the School Board District 6 special election (unexpired term to 12/31/2028): Anne B. Holton and Jacqueline T. "Jackie" McDonnough. School board is skipped per the brief, so they are not people rows. The November 2026 House of Delegates District 20 special election is not in Richmond (Richmond precincts are all in HD 77, 78 or 79).
Municipal election: none for Mayor or Council in 2026. All nine council members' terms on the Council Contacts page read 'January 2, 2025 - December 31, 2028 (Elected November 5, 2024)'; Mayor Avula took office January 1, 2025. Next regular Mayor and City Council election: November 7, 2028 (presidential-year cycle since 2008 four-year terms). The Office of Elections 'Elections' page says Mayor & City Council elections occur 'Typically odd-numbered years', which contradicts the council's own term records; the term records are used.
Sitting council from the City's 'Councilmember Contacts' page (retrieved 2026-10-22): nine single-member voter districts, Council President Cynthia I. Newbille (7th) and Vice President Katherine Jordan (2nd) for 2025-2026. Official rva.gov emails recorded; office/mobile/home phone numbers printed on the page are not recorded. City-wide elected constitutional officers (Commonwealth's Attorney, Sheriff, City Treasurer, Clerk of the Circuit Court) included as municipal from their rva.gov office pages; none is on the 2026 ballot. No elected Commissioner of the Revenue page was found in the rva.gov menu, so none is listed.
Districts covering the city: the Office of Elections 'Precincts' page tabulates every Richmond precinct with its House, Senate and Congress district — Congress 4 for every precinct; Senate 14 and 15; House 77, 78 and 79. City Hall (Census geocoder, coordinates -77.433695, 37.540839): CD-4, SD-14, HD-78. Only City Hall's SD-14 (Lamont Bagby, D) and HD-78 (Betsy B. Carr, D) are recorded as people; SD-15 is Michael J. Jones (D) and HD-77 Charles H. Schmidt, Jr., HD-79 Rae C. Cousins per the Senate and House member lists — not recorded as rows. No General Assembly seat is on the 2026 Richmond ballot.
Photos: City of Richmond, Virginia Senate, House of Delegates and Governor portrait URLs are linked, never copied; none of those pages states reuse terms (rva.gov's only site policy is a Privacy Statement). No federal photos linked: senate.gov returned Akamai 403 to robots.txt and was not visited further; house.gov photo pages were not read.
Emails: official addresses for officeholders; for candidates only campaign-domain addresses from the ELECT list. Personal-style webmail addresses on the list (Mizusawa, Bell) were not copied. No home or campaign street addresses or phone numbers recorded.
Robots/terms: elections.virginia.gov (allows HTML; disallows *.csv/*.xls/*.xlsx/*.json; Policies page sets no reuse terms), www.rva.gov (Drupal default disallows only admin/search/user paths; all fetched paths allowed), house.vga.virginia.gov (empty robots), governor.virginia.gov (allows /about-the-governor/), www.house.gov (allows /representatives) all allow. apps.senate.virginia.gov and geocoding.geo.census.gov have no robots.txt (404). unitedstates.github.io has no robots.txt (404); legislators-current.json is CC0. www.senate.gov: Akamai 403 on robots.txt — recorded as a block, not retried. tigerweb.geo.census.gov returned a WAF 'Request Rejected' page for robots.txt, so it was not queried (the City precinct table made a grid unnecessary). One plain User-Agent used throughout; nothing retried with another. Wikipedia, Ballotpedia and news were not used.
standsFor is null for everyone: no candidate statement was read.

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.