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Virginia House of Delegates
Shelly Simonds
House of Delegates — District 70
Democrat
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#4,870 of 8,776 · bottom 44.5% among candidates with at least one scored answer
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Next Election
June 15, 2027
Primary · Not up at next scheduled election
— until
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: NO EVIDENCE FOUND (no personal religious/church affiliation publicly documented)
Background: Shelly A. Simonds (D), VA House of Delegates District 70 (Newport News). In the House since 2020 (HD-94, famous 2017 tied-race loss; moved to HD-70 after 2021 redistricting); re-elected Nov 4, 2025. Vice Chair, House Education Committee. Educator; former Newport News School Board member. B.A. Bucknell; M.A. Stanford.
VA Delegate, HD-70 (sitting since 2020). [2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement, state tier] Uniformly progressive HARD record. SANCTITY: confirmed individual YEA on HJ1, the reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment (House 64-34, Jan 14, 2026; FastDemocracy LIS mirror); endorsed by Planned Parenthood Advocates of VA and listed by REPRO Rising. MARRIAGE: HJ3 (marriage repeal amendment) passed the House 67-31 the same day with the full Democratic bloc YES (her individual HJ3 line not separately pulled, but her confirmed same-day HJ1 YEA places her in the bloc); documented opposition to a transgender-student 'forced outing' / parental-notification bill (Virginia Mercury). SELF-DEFENSE (strongest record): confirmed individual YEA on HB217 (assault-firearms & large-capacity-magazine ban) and HB901 (red-flag / substantial-risk-order expansion); Giffords-, Everytown-, and Brady-endorsed. iVoterGuide rates her 'Verified Liberal (Grade 10).' No cross-party deviations found. Public-justice, election-integrity, economic, immigration, and federal cells returned no clean Simonds-specific roll call and were left null (her $36M Safer Communities gun-violence-prevention budget item is community-based, not a soft-on-crime or anti-police vote).
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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
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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
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 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)
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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)
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
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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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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelly_SimondsEncyclopedia
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giffords.org/candidates/shelly-simonds/Unclassified
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- [1]Confirmed individual YEA on HJ1, the reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment (House 64-34, Jan 14, 2026) — does not affirm personhood from conception. Unclassified
Confirmed individual YEA on HJ1, the reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment (House 64-34, Jan 14, 2026) — does not affirm personhood from conception.
- [2]Confirmed individual YEA on HJ1, the reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment (House 64-34, Jan 14, 2026) — does not affirm personhood from conception. Center
Confirmed individual YEA on HJ1, the reproductive-freedom constitutional amendment (House 64-34, Jan 14, 2026) — does not affirm personhood from conception.
- [3]Voted for the reproductive-freedom amendment and is endorsed by Planned Parenthood Advocates of VA / listed by REPRO Rising — opposite of abortion-abolition. Unclassified
Voted for the reproductive-freedom amendment and is endorsed by Planned Parenthood Advocates of VA / listed by REPRO Rising — opposite of abortion-abolition.
- [4]Voted for the reproductive-freedom amendment and is endorsed by Planned Parenthood Advocates of VA / listed by REPRO Rising — opposite of abortion-abolition. Left Advocacy
Voted for the reproductive-freedom amendment and is endorsed by Planned Parenthood Advocates of VA / listed by REPRO Rising — opposite of abortion-abolition.
- [5]HJ3 (marriage repeal amendment) passed the House 67-31 on Jan 14, 2026 with the full Democratic bloc YES; her confirmed same-day HJ1 YEA places her in that bloc — does not affirm man-woman marriage. (Individual HJ3 line not separately pulled.) Official
HJ3 (marriage repeal amendment) passed the House 67-31 on Jan 14, 2026 with the full Democratic bloc YES; her confirmed same-day HJ1 YEA places her in that bloc — does not affirm man-woman marriage. (Individual HJ3 line not separately pulled.)
- [6]Documented opposition to a transgender-student 'forced outing' / parental-notification bill — does not reject transgender ideology. Lean Left
Documented opposition to a transgender-student 'forced outing' / parental-notification bill — does not reject transgender ideology.
- [7]Confirmed individual YEA on HB217 (assault-firearms & large-capacity-magazine ban, Feb 5 2026) and HB901 (red-flag / substantial-risk-order expansion, Feb 17 2026); Giffords/Everytown/Brady endorsed — supports red-flag laws, magazine limits, and assault-weapons bans. Unclassified
Confirmed individual YEA on HB217 (assault-firearms & large-capacity-magazine ban, Feb 5 2026) and HB901 (red-flag / substantial-risk-order expansion, Feb 17 2026); Giffords/Everytown/Brady endorsed — supports red-flag laws, magazine limits, and assault-weapons bans.
- [8]Confirmed individual YEA on HB217 (assault-firearms & large-capacity-magazine ban, Feb 5 2026) and HB901 (red-flag / substantial-risk-order expansion, Feb 17 2026); Giffords/Everytown/Brady endorsed — supports red-flag laws, magazine limits, and assault-weapons bans. Unclassified
Confirmed individual YEA on HB217 (assault-firearms & large-capacity-magazine ban, Feb 5 2026) and HB901 (red-flag / substantial-risk-order expansion, Feb 17 2026); Giffords/Everytown/Brady endorsed — supports red-flag laws, magazine limits, and assault-weapons bans.
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