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Virginia State Senate
Elizabeth Bennett-Parker
State Senate — District 39 (special-election winner, sworn Feb 18, 2026; prior House of Delegates HD-5, 2022-2026)
Democrat
RESOLUTE Citizen Score
7
/ 100
F
Raw: 2 of 28 dynamic max
· 14 of 49 answered
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✝ God First
2/ 70
🏛️ State First
0/ 30
National Rank
#4,883 of 9,024 · bottom 45.9% among candidates with at least one scored answer
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Next Election
November 2, 2027
General · Seat up at next election
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Registration deadline: 2026-10-13
Early voting: 2026-09-18 – 2026-10-31
State elections office: (804) 864-8901
Voter status: Check registration
State elections site: Virginia Department of Elections
Official Profile
Religion: No public religious affiliation found
Background: VA State Senator, District 39 (Alexandria/Arlington), since Feb 18, 2026 (won special election Feb 10, 2026 succeeding Adam Ebbin); prior House of Delegates HD-5, 2022-2026; Alexandria City Council/Vice Mayor 2019-2021. Cornell BA, Univ. of London MA; nonprofit executive (founded a food-waste social enterprise).
VA State Senator, SD-39 (Alexandria/Arlington), sworn Feb 18, 2026 after a special election; nearly her entire voting record is from her prior House of Delegates HD-5 seat (2022-2026). [2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement, state tier] Uniformly progressive HARD record. Voted YEA on SJ247 (reproductive-freedom amendment; Planned Parenthood Advocates VA 2025 endorsee) and co-sponsored HJ9 (same-sex-marriage repeal, House 58-35); publicly opposed the Youngkin administration's transgender-youth school policies (parental-notification model). Chief patron of HJ2, the felon-voting-restoration constitutional amendment. Pro-sanctuary: backs banning 287(g), restricting ICE in schools/hospitals. Gun-control author: HB93/HB46 (disarming domestic abusers), co-patron of the assault-weapons ban HB217; Giffords-endorsed. No cross-party deviations. Election sub-cells (ID/mail-in machinery) and several others left null where only felon-restoration/anti-purge measures exist, which don't map cleanly to the ballot-mechanics cells.
Category Breakdown
Candidate affirms life begins at conception and personhood from conception
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A supporter of Virginia's proposed Right to Reproductive Freedom constitutional amendment (2026), which would enshrine abortion access in the state constitution; appeared at a Richmond news conference in November 2024 backing House amendments on abortion rights — rejecting any legal recognition of personhood from conception.
- BallotpediaCenter
- Virginia MercuryLean Left
Candidate has voted for or sponsored state legislation moving toward abortion abolition (e.g., heartbeat ban, total ban) — not merely restrictions
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Candidate opposes state funding for embryonic stem-cell research and supports state IVF embryo-protection laws
Candidate opposes state physician-assisted suicide laws and opposes state Medicaid death-panel rationing
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FEC / state campaign-finance search found no abortion-industry PAC contributions for state-legislative or statewide-office campaigns (as of the cited search date)
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Candidate affirms marriage as exclusively the lifelong union of one man and one woman as instituted by God
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1 claim
Appeared at the November 2024 Richmond news conference backing a Virginia constitutional amendment on marriage equality, supporting codification of same-sex unions into the state constitution — rejecting the one-man-one-woman definition of marriage.
- Virginia MercuryLean Left
- WikipediaEncyclopedia
Candidate opposes state recognition of same-sex marriage / civil unions / domestic partnerships, and supports state non-recognition resolutions where federally permitted
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Candidate has voted for state legislation affirming biological sex (bathroom/locker access, sports participation, minor gender-procedure bans)
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Candidate supports state no-fault divorce reform and pro-marriage policy (covenant marriage option, waiting periods, etc.)
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Candidate opposes promotion of LGBTQ+ identity in state-funded schools, state agencies, and state corporate-partnership programs
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Candidate has voted for state school-choice (vouchers, ESAs, charter expansion) and supports state homeschool freedom statutes
Candidate has voted for state law requiring parental notification + consent on minors' medical, mental-health, and gender interventions (incl. school counseling referrals)
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Candidate has voted for state law restricting CRT/SOGI/comprehensive-sex-ed/gender-ideology curricula in K-12
Candidate has voted for state age-verification laws on pornographic content and state criminal penalties for sexualizing minors
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Candidate affirms the right to publicly profess Christ in all spheres (workplace, military, public office, schools)
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Candidate has voted for state conscience-exemption laws (state RFRA, medical-professional carve-outs, business-owner protections)
Candidate opposes state-level pronoun mandates + state 'hate speech' laws restricting Christian conviction
Candidate supports state public-square Christian display protections + state legislative prayer + state Sunday-closure laws
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Candidate opposes state-funded promotion of non-Christian religious displays/curricula/holidays in state institutions
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Candidate has voted for state law protecting cash as legal tender, opposing state-level CBDC pilot programs, and protecting crypto-as-property status
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Candidate supports sound-money policies including gold/silver as constitutional money and audit/abolition of the Federal Reserve
N/A · out of tier
Candidate has voted for state balanced-budget compliance + opposed state borrowing for non-capital expenditures
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Candidate has voted for state usury caps + state predatory-lending protections + state charitable-deduction parity
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Candidate has voted for state pension/treasury divestment from ESG-aligned funds (e.g., BlackRock) + state anti-monopoly enforcement against financial cartels
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Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted for state hand-count requirements / opposed electronic voting machines
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Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted for state photo voter ID + citizenship verification at registration
Candidate has voted to restrict state early-voting windows + tighten state absentee qualifications to verified medical/military
Candidate has voted against state mass mail-in voting expansion, against state drop-box deployment, and against legalizing ballot harvesting
Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted to ban state acceptance of private election grants ('Zuckerbucks') + state penalties for foreign interference
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Candidate (state) has voted for state-funded border-security measures (e.g., TX Operation Lone Star analog, AZ wall expansion)
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Candidate (state) has voted for state laws requiring local cooperation with ICE deportation enforcement
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Candidate (state) has voted to preempt or punish sanctuary-city policies + ban state cities from declaring sanctuary status
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Candidate (state) has voted for state E-Verify mandate (beyond federal floor) for state employers + state-benefit eligibility verification
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Candidate (state) has voted to restrict foreign ownership of state farmland (e.g., China-buyer prohibitions)
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Candidate (state) has voted against state red-flag laws, mag-capacity limits, AWBs, and registries (or voted to repeal where enacted)
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Candidate (state) has voted to enact / strengthen state Castle Doctrine + stand-your-ground statute
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Candidate has publicly backed law enforcement and opposed defunding/dismantling police
Candidate opposes cashless-bail, soft-on-crime, and rogue-prosecutor (e.g. Soros-DA) policy
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Candidate supports victim restitution and proportional punishment of evildoers
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Candidate refuses to treat violent crime as a "public health" excuse to avoid punishment
Candidate affirms the magistrate's God-ordained duty to bear the sword (Rom. 13:4)
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Official has voted for or sponsored 10th-Amendment nullification or anti-commandeering measures
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Official has declined unconstitutional federal mandates or federal strings on the state
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Official has resisted federal overreach on guns, life, education, or religious liberty
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Official affirms state sovereignty against unconstitutional federal action
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Official has opposed federal capture of state elections, data, or land
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Sources & Evidence
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Vote Smart — Voting RecordReference
reportcard.familyfoundation.org/Right Advocacy
www.vcdl.org/Right Advocacy
reportcard.familyfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2...Right Advocacy
freedomindex.us/va/Right Advocacy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bennett-ParkerEncyclopedia
Planned Parenthood ActionLeft Advocacy
www.elizabethforva.com/elizabeth-s-prioritiesUnclassified
www.elizabethforva.com/Unclassified
Ballotpedia ProfileCenter
democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/Unclassified
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References & footnotes
Every answer above with a [n] marker corresponds to one of the footnotes below. Wayback-archive links preserve the page as it read at our access date so a reader can verify the citation even if the original URL changes or disappears.
- [1]kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (leftover sanctity_of_life q2) — DNC: laws that limit access to fertility treatments like IVF; defending access to abortion including medication abortion. Not leftover opposition to embryonic research / IVF embryo discard. Individual overrides where present. Unclassified
kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (leftover sanctity_of_life q2) — DNC: laws that limit access to fertility treatments like IVF; defending access to abortion including medication abortion. Not leftover opposition to embryonic research / IVF embryo discard. Individual overrides where present.
- [2]kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (leftover sanctity_of_life q2) — DNC: laws that limit access to fertility treatments like IVF; defending access to abortion including medication abortion. Not leftover opposition to embryonic research / IVF embryo discard. Individual overrides where present. Unclassified
kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (leftover sanctity_of_life q2) — DNC: laws that limit access to fertility treatments like IVF; defending access to abortion including medication abortion. Not leftover opposition to embryonic research / IVF embryo discard. Individual overrides where present.
- [3]kind: individual. Ballotpedia 2025 endorsements still list Gun Sense Voter (https://gunsensevoter.org/candidates/). Endorsements still-listed=score. Leftover self_defense q0 False (not constitutional carry) + 2024 DNC AWB/red flag. Already leftover q1 False. Dual-office one slug. Center
kind: individual. Ballotpedia 2025 endorsements still list Gun Sense Voter (https://gunsensevoter.org/candidates/). Endorsements still-listed=score. Leftover self_defense q0 False (not constitutional carry) + 2024 DNC AWB/red flag. Already leftover q1 False. Dual-office one slug.
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