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Virginia House of Delegates
Garrett McGuire
House of Delegates — District 17
Democrat
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RESOLUTE Citizen Score
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✝ God First
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🏛️ State First
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National Rank
#5,819 of 9,024 · bottom 35.5% among candidates with at least one scored answer
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Call804-698-1017Send MessageOfficial PageEmaildelgmcguire@house.virginia.govX / Twitter@RepJohnMcGuire
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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 EVIDENCE FOUND — no public statement of faith or church affiliation located.
Background: VA Delegate, HD-17 (Fairfax County — Franconia/Kingstowne/Springfield). Won the Jan 20, 2026 special general election (~80%) to fill the vacancy left by Mark Sickles (resigned to become Sec. of Finance); sworn in Jan 21, 2026. Virginia Tech (BA + MPA); AT&T Regional Director for External & Legislative Affairs; former chair of the Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board.
X / Twitter: @RepJohnMcGuire
VA Delegate, HD-17 (Fairfax Co.); seated Jan 21, 2026 via special election. [2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement, state tier] VERY THIN RECORD — only the partial 2026 session. CRITICAL TIMING: the marriage (HJ3) and reproductive-freedom (HJ1) constitutional-amendment votes both passed the House Jan 14, 2026, ONE WEEK BEFORE McGuire was seated, so neither is imputed to him. Documented HARD record: chief patron of two gun-control laws signed by Gov. Spanberger and enacted Apr 23, 2026 — HB1524 (bars carrying 'assault firearms'/>15-round magazines in public areas) and HB1525 (bars handgun/assault-firearm purchase under 21); NRA-ILA condemned both. SOFT: REPRO Rising VA PAC endorsement + his own statement pledging to 'protect reproductive freedom' (sanctity contrary). NO EVIDENCE FOUND on marriage, family/child, Christian liberty, federal overreach, immigration, election integrity — left null, not inferred from party.
Category Breakdown
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.)
Not yet verified
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 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
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
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Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted for state hand-count requirements / opposed electronic voting machines
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) has voted for state-funded border-security measures (e.g., TX Operation Lone Star analog, AZ wall expansion)
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
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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 supports constitutional carry without permit requirements
1 claim
Sponsored and helped enact HB1524 (2026), which prohibits carrying any semi-automatic center-fire rifle, pistol, or shotgun — or any firearm modified to operate as an assault firearm — on public streets, sidewalks, parks, or other public places in Virginia, directly undermining constitutional-carry and open-carry rights. The bill was signed into law.
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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Voted YES on HB 217 (2026), Virginia's assault-style weapons ban prohibiting the future sale, manufacture, purchase, and transfer of assault firearms and large-capacity magazines — passed the House 58-34 on a party-line vote on Feb. 5, 2026, and signed by Gov. Spanberger. McGuire was seated Jan. 21, 2026 and was present for this vote.
- Virginia Legislative Information SystemOfficial
- Virginia MercuryLean Left
Candidate (state) has voted for state constitutional-carry statute
Not yet verified
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
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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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Vote Smart — Voting RecordReference
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freedomindex.us/va/Right Advocacy
Ballotpedia ProfileCenter
garrettmcguire.com/Unclassified
democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/Unclassified
vademocrats.org/Unclassified
vademocrats.org/chairs/party-structureUnclassified
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References & footnotes
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- [1]kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (sanctity_of_life q0) — vademocrats.org/ HTTP 200 and vademocrats.org/chairs/party-structure HTTP 200 this hop (party-structure page, no scored VA Dem plank text). Democratic Party of Virginia is the DNC affiliate. democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/ HTTP 200 this hop (redirected 2024-Democratic-Party-Platform.pdf). No individual statement found this hop for this leftover cell. Unclassified
kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (sanctity_of_life q0) — vademocrats.org/ HTTP 200 and vademocrats.org/chairs/party-structure HTTP 200 this hop (party-structure page, no scored VA Dem plank text). Democratic Party of Virginia is the DNC affiliate. democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/ HTTP 200 this hop (redirected 2024-Democratic-Party-Platform.pdf). No individual statement found this hop for this leftover cell.
- [2]kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (sanctity_of_life q0) — vademocrats.org/ HTTP 200 and vademocrats.org/chairs/party-structure HTTP 200 this hop (party-structure page, no scored VA Dem plank text). Democratic Party of Virginia is the DNC affiliate. democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/ HTTP 200 this hop (redirected 2024-Democratic-Party-Platform.pdf). No individual statement found this hop for this leftover cell. Unclassified
kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (sanctity_of_life q0) — vademocrats.org/ HTTP 200 and vademocrats.org/chairs/party-structure HTTP 200 this hop (party-structure page, no scored VA Dem plank text). Democratic Party of Virginia is the DNC affiliate. democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/ HTTP 200 this hop (redirected 2024-Democratic-Party-Platform.pdf). No individual statement found this hop for this leftover cell.
- [3]kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (sanctity_of_life q0) — vademocrats.org/ HTTP 200 and vademocrats.org/chairs/party-structure HTTP 200 this hop (party-structure page, no scored VA Dem plank text). Democratic Party of Virginia is the DNC affiliate. democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/ HTTP 200 this hop (redirected 2024-Democratic-Party-Platform.pdf). No individual statement found this hop for this leftover cell. Unclassified
kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (sanctity_of_life q0) — vademocrats.org/ HTTP 200 and vademocrats.org/chairs/party-structure HTTP 200 this hop (party-structure page, no scored VA Dem plank text). Democratic Party of Virginia is the DNC affiliate. democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/ HTTP 200 this hop (redirected 2024-Democratic-Party-Platform.pdf). No individual statement found this hop for this leftover cell.
- [4]Individual override. Campaign garrettmcguire.com HTTP 200: 'a leading voice for measures that reduce gun violence.' WVTF 2026-04-16 HTTP 200 names McGuire bills: bans open carry of assault firearms on public property and HB1525 to close a background-check loophole while limiting sale of handguns and assault weapons to those over 21 (media paraphrase of named bills/chamber, not spin). Maps leftover self_defense q0/q1 False. Not on PPAV 2025 House slate (that list still names Del. Mark Sickles HD-17; McGuire won the 2026-01-20 special after Sickles resigned — PPAV 2025 not applied). Unclassified
Individual override. Campaign garrettmcguire.com HTTP 200: 'a leading voice for measures that reduce gun violence.' WVTF 2026-04-16 HTTP 200 names McGuire bills: bans open carry of assault firearms on public property and HB1525 to close a background-check loophole while limiting sale of handguns and assault weapons to those over 21 (media paraphrase of named bills/chamber, not spin). Maps leftover self_defense q0/q1 False. Not on PPAV 2025 House slate (that list still names Del. Mark Sickles HD-17; McGuire won the 2026-01-20 special after Sickles resigned — PPAV 2025 not applied).
- [5]Individual override. Campaign garrettmcguire.com HTTP 200: 'a leading voice for measures that reduce gun violence.' WVTF 2026-04-16 HTTP 200 names McGuire bills: bans open carry of assault firearms on public property and HB1525 to close a background-check loophole while limiting sale of handguns and assault weapons to those over 21 (media paraphrase of named bills/chamber, not spin). Maps leftover self_defense q0/q1 False. Not on PPAV 2025 House slate (that list still names Del. Mark Sickles HD-17; McGuire won the 2026-01-20 special after Sickles resigned — PPAV 2025 not applied). Unclassified
Individual override. Campaign garrettmcguire.com HTTP 200: 'a leading voice for measures that reduce gun violence.' WVTF 2026-04-16 HTTP 200 names McGuire bills: bans open carry of assault firearms on public property and HB1525 to close a background-check loophole while limiting sale of handguns and assault weapons to those over 21 (media paraphrase of named bills/chamber, not spin). Maps leftover self_defense q0/q1 False. Not on PPAV 2025 House slate (that list still names Del. Mark Sickles HD-17; McGuire won the 2026-01-20 special after Sickles resigned — PPAV 2025 not applied).
- [6]Individual override. Campaign garrettmcguire.com HTTP 200: 'a leading voice for measures that reduce gun violence.' WVTF 2026-04-16 HTTP 200 names McGuire bills: bans open carry of assault firearms on public property and HB1525 to close a background-check loophole while limiting sale of handguns and assault weapons to those over 21 (media paraphrase of named bills/chamber, not spin). Maps leftover self_defense q0/q1 False. Not on PPAV 2025 House slate (that list still names Del. Mark Sickles HD-17; McGuire won the 2026-01-20 special after Sickles resigned — PPAV 2025 not applied). Center
Individual override. Campaign garrettmcguire.com HTTP 200: 'a leading voice for measures that reduce gun violence.' WVTF 2026-04-16 HTTP 200 names McGuire bills: bans open carry of assault firearms on public property and HB1525 to close a background-check loophole while limiting sale of handguns and assault weapons to those over 21 (media paraphrase of named bills/chamber, not spin). Maps leftover self_defense q0/q1 False. Not on PPAV 2025 House slate (that list still names Del. Mark Sickles HD-17; McGuire won the 2026-01-20 special after Sickles resigned — PPAV 2025 not applied).
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