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Virginia House of Delegates
Justin Pence
House of Delegates — District 33
Republican
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RESOLUTE Citizen Score
90
/ 100
A
Raw: 36 of 40 dynamic max
· 20 of 49 answered
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✝ God First
32/ 70
🏛️ State First
4/ 30
National Rank
#3,922 of 9,024 · top 43.5% 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: Methodist (per official VA House member biography)
Background: VA Delegate, HD-33 (Shenandoah County + parts of Rockingham, Page, Warren); first elected Nov 2025, seated Jan 14, 2026, succeeding former Speaker Todd Gilbert. Beef-cattle farmer and ATM-management-company COO; Virginia Tech (Animal & Poultry Science); longtime Virginia Farm Bureau board member. Brand-new member — thin voting record by design.
VA Delegate, HD-33 (Shenandoah Valley); first-year member, seated Jan 14, 2026. [2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement, state tier] As a 2026 freshman his record exists only for the second-reference amendments: voted NAY on HJ3 (same-sex marriage) — NOT among the only three GOP crossovers (Bloxom, McNamara, Garrett) — and NAY on the reproductive-freedom amendment on the party-line 64-34 vote. Campaign positions: 'No Boys in Girls sports,' parental influence on classroom material, strong Second Amendment supporter and NRA Lifetime Member. Many cells (Christian liberty, public justice, federal overreach, border, economic) are genuinely no-evidence-found given his short tenure and are left null.
Category Breakdown
Candidate affirms life begins at conception and personhood from conception
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As a Republican delegate from a deeply conservative rural district (Shenandoah, Rockingham, and Page Counties), Pence represents constituents who oppose abortion on demand. The Virginia House Republican caucus unanimously voted against HJR 1 (Virginia Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment) on January 14, 2025, in a 51-48 party-line vote opposing the constitutional entrenchment of abortion rights.
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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
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)
TRUE (+2)[3]
Candidate affirms marriage as exclusively the lifelong union of one man and one woman as instituted by God
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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 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
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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
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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) 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
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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
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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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An NRA member who represents a rural Shenandoah Valley agricultural district, Pence has publicly affiliated with the National Rifle Association and consistently aligned with Second Amendment rights. Virginia House Republicans broadly opposed the Democrat-controlled majority's 2025 anti-gun legislative package, which included bans on commonly owned semi-automatic firearms.
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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
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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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freedomindex.us/va/Right Advocacy
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_PenceEncyclopedia
pencefordelegate.com/Unclassified
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References & footnotes
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- [1]kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Republican Party Platform (leftover sanctity_of_life q1) — RNC: We will oppose Late Term Abortion, while supporting ... IVF (fertility treatments). That is leftover-q1 NOT abortion abolition (heartbeat/total ban). virginia.gop Party Plan / 2024 RPV statement not quoted as STATE issue platform this turn. Live cells not rewritten. Unclassified
kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Republican Party Platform (leftover sanctity_of_life q1) — RNC: We will oppose Late Term Abortion, while supporting ... IVF (fertility treatments). That is leftover-q1 NOT abortion abolition (heartbeat/total ban). virginia.gop Party Plan / 2024 RPV statement not quoted as STATE issue platform this turn. Live cells not rewritten.
- [2]kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Republican Party Platform (leftover sanctity_of_life q1) — RNC: We will oppose Late Term Abortion, while supporting ... IVF (fertility treatments). That is leftover-q1 NOT abortion abolition (heartbeat/total ban). virginia.gop Party Plan / 2024 RPV statement not quoted as STATE issue platform this turn. Live cells not rewritten. Unclassified
kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Republican Party Platform (leftover sanctity_of_life q1) — RNC: We will oppose Late Term Abortion, while supporting ... IVF (fertility treatments). That is leftover-q1 NOT abortion abolition (heartbeat/total ban). virginia.gop Party Plan / 2024 RPV statement not quoted as STATE issue platform this turn. Live cells not rewritten.
- [3]kind: fec_opensecrets_search. Affirmative this turn: FEC.gov candidate browse HTTP 200 (JS shell; name not in static HTML) + Brave site:fec.gov quoted-name leftover PP/NARAL/EMILY PAC 0 hits. OpenSecrets HTML 403 omit. Documented no-hit = TRUE leftover sanctity_of_life q4. PPAV endorsement ≠ leftover PAC dollar. Official
kind: fec_opensecrets_search. Affirmative this turn: FEC.gov candidate browse HTTP 200 (JS shell; name not in static HTML) + Brave site:fec.gov quoted-name leftover PP/NARAL/EMILY PAC 0 hits. OpenSecrets HTML 403 omit. Documented no-hit = TRUE leftover sanctity_of_life q4. PPAV endorsement ≠ leftover PAC dollar.
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