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Virginia State Senate
Kannan Srinivasan
State Senate — District 32
Democrat
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✝ God First
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🏛️ State First
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National Rank
#5,153 of 8,957 · bottom 42.5% among candidates with at least one scored answer
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Next Election
November 2, 2027
Primary · Not up at next scheduled election
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Registration deadline: 2026-10-13
Early voting: 2026-09-18 – 2026-10-31
Elections office: (804) 864-8901
Voter status: Check registration
State elections site: Virginia Department of Elections
Official Profile
Religion: Hindu (Tamil; sponsored a Hindu invocation in the VA House, Feb 2024)
Background: VA State Senator, SD-32 (Loudoun County), since Jan 2025 (won the Jan 7, 2025 special election to replace Suhas Subramanyam, elected to U.S. Congress); former Delegate HD-26 (2024-2025). First Indian-American immigrant elected to the VA House. M.S. Accounting (Old Dominion); career in finance/insurance.
VA State Senator, SD-32 (Loudoun); sitting since Jan 2025. [2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement, state tier] Reliably progressive record on the documented dimensions. SANCTITY OF LIFE: ReproRising 2025 'A+ Champion'; on the prevailing Democratic side of the reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment (SJ247/HJ1, 2025-2026); endorsed by Planned Parenthood Advocates of VA. MARRIAGE: on the prevailing Democratic side of the same-sex-marriage constitutional amendment (SJ249/HJR3, 2025-2026). SELF-DEFENSE: Giffords-endorsed 'gun safety champion'; sponsored HB22 (2024) banning auto-sears/'Glock switches'; gun-violence-intervention funding and ghost-gun-ban priorities. Dimensions with NO public record (family/child sovereignty, Christian liberty, public justice, federal overreach, border/immigration, most of economics, voter-ID/mail-in) left NULL — not inferred from party. Caveat: his individual roll-call line on the amendments was corroborated via the named ReproRising grade + party-line vote reporting (LIS is a JS app); the amendment votes are documented party-line Democratic passages while he held the seat.
Category Breakdown
Candidate affirms life begins at conception and personhood from conception
FALSE (0)[1]
1 claim
Publicly and emphatically committed to preserving unrestricted abortion access in Virginia during his January 2025 special-election campaign: 'Virginia is the last, the only state in the South where women don't have to worry about [the legality of abortion]. And I am very, very committed to keeping it that way.' This stance explicitly rejects any statutory protection for unborn life, contrary to the rubric's life-at-conception standard.
- BallotpediaCenter
- BallotpediaCenter
Candidate has voted for or sponsored state legislation moving toward abortion abolition (e.g., heartbeat ban, total ban) — not merely restrictions
FALSE (0)[2]
1 claim
Voted YES on SJ247 on January 21, 2025 — just six days after being sworn in to the Senate on January 15, 2025, following his victory in the SD-32 special election. SJ247 constitutionally enshrines an unlimited 'fundamental right to reproductive freedom' that bars the Commonwealth from restricting abortion at any stage, with the Senate passing the amendment 21-19 on a strict party-line vote. Srinivasan's vote was his first major Senate action after taking office.
- Virginia Legislative Information SystemOfficial
- BallotpediaCenter
- acluva.orgUnclassified
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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Candidate has never accepted abortion-industry PAC funding for state-legislative or statewide-office campaigns
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Candidate affirms marriage as exclusively the lifelong union of one man and one woman as instituted by God
FALSE (0)[3]
Candidate opposes state recognition of same-sex marriage / civil unions / domestic partnerships, and supports state non-recognition resolutions where federally permitted
FALSE (0)[3]
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
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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
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Candidate has voted for state age-verification laws on pornographic content and state criminal penalties for sexualizing minors
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Candidate has voted for state RFRA-style protections for faith-based adoption + foster agencies; opposes state-mandated SS-couple placement
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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)
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Candidate opposes state-level pronoun mandates + state 'hate speech' laws restricting Christian conviction
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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
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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
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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
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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)
Not yet verified
Candidate supports constitutional carry without permit requirements
FALSE (0)[4]
Candidate (state) has voted against state red-flag laws, mag-capacity limits, AWBs, and registries (or voted to repeal where enacted)
FALSE (0)[5]
1 claim
Voted YES on SB749 (2026 session), Virginia's assault-firearms ban prohibiting the purchase, sale, importation, manufacture, or transfer of semi-automatic centerfire rifles with detachable magazines and certain features, and magazines holding more than 15 rounds. The Senate passed the bill 21-19 on a party-line vote, with Srinivasan joining all 20 other Democratic senators in favor. Gun Owners of America condemned the bill as 'unconstitutional' and urged Virginians to contact their representatives in opposition.
- Virginia Legislative Information SystemOfficial
- gunowners.orgUnclassified
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
FALSE (0)[4]
Candidate has publicly backed law enforcement and opposed defunding/dismantling police
Not yet verified
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
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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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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
Ballotpedia ProfileCenter
giffords.org/candidates/kannan-srinivasan/Unclassified
Ballotpedia ProfileCenter
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legiscan.com/VA/bill/HB22/2024Reference
Planned Parenthood ActionLeft Advocacy
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References & footnotes
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- [1]ReproRising 2025 'A+ Champion'; on the prevailing Democratic side of the reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment (SJ247/HJ1) — does not affirm personhood from conception. Left Advocacy
ReproRising 2025 'A+ Champion'; on the prevailing Democratic side of the reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment (SJ247/HJ1) — does not affirm personhood from conception.
- [2]Backs the full pro-abortion-access agenda (A+ Champion); opposite of abortion-abolition legislation. Center
Backs the full pro-abortion-access agenda (A+ Champion); opposite of abortion-abolition legislation.
- [3]On the prevailing Democratic side of the same-sex-marriage constitutional amendment (SJ249/HJR3, 2025-2026) — does not affirm marriage as one man and one woman. Center
On the prevailing Democratic side of the same-sex-marriage constitutional amendment (SJ249/HJR3, 2025-2026) — does not affirm marriage as one man and one woman.
- [4]Giffords-endorsed 'gun safety champion'; record is uniformly pro-gun-control, opposite of permitless constitutional carry. Unclassified
Giffords-endorsed 'gun safety champion'; record is uniformly pro-gun-control, opposite of permitless constitutional carry.
- [5]Sponsored HB22 (2024) banning auto-sears/trigger activators ('Glock switches'); worked on red-flag impact reporting; supports new gun restrictions. Reference
Sponsored HB22 (2024) banning auto-sears/trigger activators ('Glock switches'); worked on red-flag impact reporting; supports new gun restrictions.
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