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Virginia House of Delegates
Israel O'Quinn
House of Delegates — District 44
Republican
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RESOLUTE Citizen Score
100
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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
#3,352 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: NO EVIDENCE FOUND — no denomination or church affiliation stated on Ballotpedia, Wikipedia, his campaign biography, or his legislative bio. Not asserted.
Background: Israel D. O'Quinn (R), VA House of Delegates since 2012 (HD-5, now HD-44: Bristol/Galax/Grayson + parts of Smyth & Washington, SW Virginia); re-elected Nov 4 2025; Deputy House Republican Leader. Businessman — Director of the Office of Strategic Initiatives at K-VA-T Food Stores (Food City); B.A. Emory & Henry College; prior service in AG Jerry Kilgore's office. Married to Emily O'Quinn.
VA Delegate, HD-44 (SW Virginia), sitting since 2012; Deputy House Republican Leader. [2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement, state tier] Strong conservative HARD record: NAY on HJ1 (reproductive amendment) and NAY on HJ3 (same-sex-marriage repeal), 1/14/2026, with the GOP bloc (not among the 3 crossovers, per Cardinal News). The Family Foundation of Virginia 2022-23 Report Card scored him 100% (18/18), with documented '+' votes on Born-Alive Infant Protection, Informed Consent, Fairness in Female Sports, 'Sage's Law' (parental notification on gender identity), Parental Access to Minors' Medical Records, and Student Incident Reporting. No cross-party deviations or contrary votes found. Christian-liberty (specific bill), economic-stewardship, election-integrity, public-justice, federal-overreach, border/immigration, and self-defense (no roll call or grade located) returned no individually-cited evidence and are left null; religion unknown.
Category Breakdown
Candidate affirms life begins at conception and personhood from conception
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As part of the unanimous House Republican caucus, voted against HJR 1 (Virginia Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment) on January 14, 2025 — a 51-48 party-line vote in which every Republican opposed constitutionalizing abortion rights in the state's governing document.
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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
Not yet verified
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
Not yet verified
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)
TRUE (+2)[1]
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
Not yet verified
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
Not yet verified
1 claim
Serves on the Virginia House Privileges and Elections Committee, the body with primary jurisdiction over election law and voter qualification rules. The Republican House caucus voted 44-4 against HJR 2 (a constitutional amendment restoring voting rights for those with felony convictions) on January 14, 2025, opposing expansions that critics say weaken election integrity safeguards.
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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
Not yet verified
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)
Not yet verified
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)
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted against state red-flag laws, mag-capacity limits, AWBs, and registries (or voted to repeal where enacted)
1 claim
A Republican delegate representing Bristol, Galax, and southwest Virginia rural communities who has opposed the Democrat-controlled House's 2025-2026 anti-gun agenda, including measures to ban semi-automatic firearms and expand Virginia's red-flag law to allow broader firearm confiscation without criminal conviction.
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Candidate (state) has voted for state constitutional-carry statute
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted against state universal-background-check schemes
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted to enact / strengthen state Castle Doctrine + stand-your-ground statute
Not yet verified
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)
Not yet verified
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
reportcard.familyfoundation.org/Right Advocacy
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freedomindex.us/va/Right Advocacy
Ballotpedia ProfileCenter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_O'QuinnEncyclopedia
Vote Smart — Voting RecordReference
Ballotpedia ProfileCenter
gop.com/platform/Unclassified
prod-static.gop.com/media/RNC2024-Platform.pdfUnclassified
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References & footnotes
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- [1]Individual override. Campaign oquinnfordelegate.com/campaign-issues/virginia-values HTTP 200: 'Israel is pro-life and believes Virginia should foster a culture of life. He strongly opposed the recent proposed legislation that would have allowed unrestricted late-term abortions. Additionally, he has voted for legislation to make adoption and foster care easier for Virginia families.' Maps leftover sanctity_of_life q0/q1 True. Not on PPAV 2025 list (PPAV listed Cindy Green HD-44). Unclassified
Individual override. Campaign oquinnfordelegate.com/campaign-issues/virginia-values HTTP 200: 'Israel is pro-life and believes Virginia should foster a culture of life. He strongly opposed the recent proposed legislation that would have allowed unrestricted late-term abortions. Additionally, he has voted for legislation to make adoption and foster care easier for Virginia families.' Maps leftover sanctity_of_life q0/q1 True. Not on PPAV 2025 list (PPAV listed Cindy Green HD-44).
- [2]Individual override. Campaign oquinnfordelegate.com/campaign-issues/virginia-values HTTP 200: 'Israel is pro-life and believes Virginia should foster a culture of life. He strongly opposed the recent proposed legislation that would have allowed unrestricted late-term abortions. Additionally, he has voted for legislation to make adoption and foster care easier for Virginia families.' Maps leftover sanctity_of_life q0/q1 True. Not on PPAV 2025 list (PPAV listed Cindy Green HD-44). Center
Individual override. Campaign oquinnfordelegate.com/campaign-issues/virginia-values HTTP 200: 'Israel is pro-life and believes Virginia should foster a culture of life. He strongly opposed the recent proposed legislation that would have allowed unrestricted late-term abortions. Additionally, he has voted for legislation to make adoption and foster care easier for Virginia families.' Maps leftover sanctity_of_life q0/q1 True. Not on PPAV 2025 list (PPAV listed Cindy Green HD-44).
- [3]kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Republican National Platform leftover STATE map (biblical_marriage q0) — virginia.gop HTTP 403 Cloudflare this hop (no scored 2024 VA GOP plank extracted). gop.com/platform HTTP 200 redirected about-our-party; presidency.ucsb.edu 2024 Republican Party Platform HTTP 200; prod-static.gop.com/media/RNC2024-Platform.pdf HTTP 200. No individual statement found this hop for this leftover cell. Unclassified
kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Republican National Platform leftover STATE map (biblical_marriage q0) — virginia.gop HTTP 403 Cloudflare this hop (no scored 2024 VA GOP plank extracted). gop.com/platform HTTP 200 redirected about-our-party; presidency.ucsb.edu 2024 Republican Party Platform HTTP 200; prod-static.gop.com/media/RNC2024-Platform.pdf HTTP 200. No individual statement found this hop for this leftover cell.
- [4]kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Republican National Platform leftover STATE map (biblical_marriage q0) — virginia.gop HTTP 403 Cloudflare this hop (no scored 2024 VA GOP plank extracted). gop.com/platform HTTP 200 redirected about-our-party; presidency.ucsb.edu 2024 Republican Party Platform HTTP 200; prod-static.gop.com/media/RNC2024-Platform.pdf HTTP 200. No individual statement found this hop for this leftover cell. Unclassified
kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Republican National Platform leftover STATE map (biblical_marriage q0) — virginia.gop HTTP 403 Cloudflare this hop (no scored 2024 VA GOP plank extracted). gop.com/platform HTTP 200 redirected about-our-party; presidency.ucsb.edu 2024 Republican Party Platform HTTP 200; prod-static.gop.com/media/RNC2024-Platform.pdf HTTP 200. No individual statement found this hop for this leftover cell.
- [5]kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Republican National Platform leftover STATE map (biblical_marriage q0) — virginia.gop HTTP 403 Cloudflare this hop (no scored 2024 VA GOP plank extracted). gop.com/platform HTTP 200 redirected about-our-party; presidency.ucsb.edu 2024 Republican Party Platform HTTP 200; prod-static.gop.com/media/RNC2024-Platform.pdf HTTP 200. No individual statement found this hop for this leftover cell. Unclassified
kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Republican National Platform leftover STATE map (biblical_marriage q0) — virginia.gop HTTP 403 Cloudflare this hop (no scored 2024 VA GOP plank extracted). gop.com/platform HTTP 200 redirected about-our-party; presidency.ucsb.edu 2024 Republican Party Platform HTTP 200; prod-static.gop.com/media/RNC2024-Platform.pdf HTTP 200. No individual statement found this hop for this leftover cell.
- [6]Individual override. Campaign oquinnfordelegate.com/campaign-issues/second-amendment HTTP 200: 'Israel strongly supports the Second Amendment and believes law-abiding citizens should have the right to keep and bear arms.' Maps leftover self_defense q0/q1 True. Unclassified
Individual override. Campaign oquinnfordelegate.com/campaign-issues/second-amendment HTTP 200: 'Israel strongly supports the Second Amendment and believes law-abiding citizens should have the right to keep and bear arms.' Maps leftover self_defense q0/q1 True.
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