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Virginia House of Delegates
Ellen McLaughlin
House of Delegates — District 36
Republican
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RESOLUTE Citizen Score
100
/ 100
A
Raw: 48 of 48 dynamic max
· 24 of 49 answered
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✝ God First
40/ 70
🏛️ State First
8/ 30
National Rank
#3,350 of 9,024 · top 37.1% 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: Baptist (per Ballotpedia)
Background: VA Delegate, HD-36 (Staunton, Waynesboro, parts of Augusta & Rockbridge); first seated Jan 11, 2023 via special election after the death of her husband Del. Ronnie Campbell (formerly Ellen H. Campbell; ran old 24th 2023-24, then HD-36). B.A. Averett University; financial professional; sits on House Appropriations. Re-elected Nov 4, 2025 (57.6%); term through 2028. Relatively new member (~3 years).
VA Delegate, HD-36 (Augusta/Staunton/Waynesboro); seated Jan 2023 (formerly Ellen Campbell). [2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement, state tier] Short-tenure member with a legislative footprint heavy on healthcare/appropriations and commending resolutions rather than culture-war sponsorship. HARD primary-source votes secured: NAY on HJ1 (2026) reproductive-freedom amendment and NAY on HJ3 (2026) same-sex-marriage amendment. No documented cross-party deviation (a challenger cited VPAP at ~93% party-line, SOFT). Family/child, Christian-liberty, election, public-justice, federal-overreach, border, economic, and self-defense cells are genuine no-evidence-found and left null — sparse but honest.
Category Breakdown
Candidate affirms life begins at conception and personhood from conception
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Voted NO on the Virginia Reproductive Freedom Constitutional Amendment in January 2025 alongside all 46 House Republicans (51–48 partisan vote), rejecting the Democrat-backed proposal to enshrine an unlimited right to abortion in the Virginia constitution. The 2026 second-session vote also passed along party lines (64–34) with all Republicans opposed.
- osvnews.comUnclassified
- WHRO (Hampton Roads PBS/NPR)Lean Left
Candidate has voted for or sponsored state legislation moving toward abortion abolition (e.g., heartbeat ban, total ban) — not merely restrictions
Candidate opposes state funding for embryonic stem-cell research and supports state IVF embryo-protection laws
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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
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)
Candidate supports state no-fault divorce reform and pro-marriage policy (covenant marriage option, waiting periods, etc.)
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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)
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
Candidate affirms the right to publicly profess Christ in all spheres (workplace, military, public office, schools)
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
Candidate opposes state-funded promotion of non-Christian religious displays/curricula/holidays in state institutions
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state law protecting cash as legal tender, opposing state-level CBDC pilot programs, and protecting crypto-as-property status
Not yet verified
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
Not yet verified
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
Not yet verified
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
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Candidate has voted against state mass mail-in voting expansion, against state drop-box deployment, and against legalizing ballot harvesting
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
Candidate (state) has voted to preempt or punish sanctuary-city policies + ban state cities from declaring sanctuary status
Candidate (state) has voted for state E-Verify mandate (beyond federal floor) for state employers + state-benefit eligibility verification
Not yet verified
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)
1 claim
Voted with all House Republicans against the sweeping gun control package passed by House Democrats in February 2026, which included a ban on the sale of assault-style weapons, large-capacity magazine restrictions, and penalties for visible handguns in unattended vehicles.
- Virginia MercuryLean Left
- WHRO (Hampton Roads PBS/NPR)Lean Left
Candidate (state) has voted for state constitutional-carry statute
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Candidate (state) has voted against state universal-background-check schemes
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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
Candidate refuses to treat violent crime as a "public health" excuse to avoid punishment
Not yet verified
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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freedomindex.us/va/Right Advocacy
Ballotpedia ProfileCenter
Ballotpedia ProfileCenter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_CampbellEncyclopedia
Vote Smart — Voting RecordReference
gop.com/platform/Unclassified
prod-static.gop.com/media/RNC2024-Platform.pdfUnclassified
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References & footnotes
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