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Virginia House of Delegates
Vivian Watts
House of Delegates — District 14
Democrat
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RESOLUTE Citizen Score
5
/ 100
F
Raw: 2 of 38 dynamic max
· 19 of 49 answered
State tier49 of 50 rubric questions apply at this office level — federal-only questions are marked N/A and excluded from the dynamic max. How tier grading works →
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✝ God First
2/ 70
🏛️ State First
0/ 30
National Rank
#4,887 of 9,024 · bottom 45.8% 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: Unitarian (Arlington Unitarian Church per VA House history bio) — not a Christian tradition; do not infer christian_liberty positions
Background: VA Delegate, HD-14 (Fairfax Co. — Annandale); served 1982-86 and 1996-present (longest-serving woman in VA House history), re-elected Nov 4, 2025. Former VA Secretary of Transportation & Public Safety (1986-90); senior House Finance Committee member; former ED of Fairfax CASA.
VA Delegate HD-14 (Fairfax/Annandale); longest-serving woman in VA House history; former Secretary of Public Safety; re-elected Nov 2025. [2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement, state tier] MIXED record — genuine documented credit on public safety. Pro-abortion-rights: co-patron of the reproductive-freedom amendment (HJ1); ReproRising 2025 'A+ Champion'. Pro-same-sex-marriage: within the 64-Democrat YEA bloc on the HJ3 marriage amendment. Economic: patron of HB979 (2026, graduated 8%/10% 'millionaire' income-tax brackets) and HB978 (service-tax expansion) — tax-raising, contrary to tithe-friendly/low-tax stewardship. Public justice (DOCUMENTED CREDIT): as Public Safety Secretary made VA the first state to use DNA evidence and carried tough sex-offender bills (HB1044 bail-denial for repeat sex offenders; HB250 barring offenders from parks) and domestic-violence rapid-arrest bills → backed law enforcement (q0 TRUE) and proportional punishment/victim protection (q2 TRUE); BUT also carried sentencing-leniency reform (robbery-sentence reduction; mental-illness defense to assault-on-officer) → soft-on-crime (q1 FALSE). Pro-gun-control: Giffords champion; voted for the red-flag/ERPO law and co-patroned HB1607 (AWB + >10-round mag ban). Caveat: individual LIS roll-call lines on HJ1/HJ3 not opened; those FALSEs rest on documented party-line votes + co-patron status.
Category Breakdown
Candidate affirms life begins at conception and personhood from conception
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1 claim
Vivian Watts has served in the Virginia House of Delegates since 1988 and consistently supports abortion access. During the 2024 session she co-sponsored HB 78 — companion to SB 16 — prohibiting law enforcement from subpoenaing menstrual health data stored on third-party apps (a measure aimed at protecting abortion-seekers from prosecution). She voted to prohibit the Board of Medicine from disciplining physicians for performing legal abortion services, rejecting any personhood-from-conception standard. REPRO Rising Virginia, the statewide reproductive-rights lobby, lists her as a key legislative ally.
- BallotpediaCenter
- Repro Rising VirginiaLeft Advocacy
- vadogwood.comUnclassified
Candidate has voted for or sponsored state legislation moving toward abortion abolition (e.g., heartbeat ban, total ban) — not merely restrictions
Not yet verified
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
Not yet verified
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
Not yet verified
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
Not yet verified
Candidate affirms the right to publicly profess Christ in all spheres (workplace, military, public office, schools)
Not yet verified
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
Not yet verified
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
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 SoS/legislature) has voted to ban state acceptance of private election grants ('Zuckerbucks') + state penalties for foreign interference
Not yet verified
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)
Not yet verified
1 claim
During the 2024 Virginia session, Watts voted to prohibit the public carrying of assault-style weapons in the Commonwealth — a direct restriction on the type of commonly owned semi-automatic firearms the rubric identifies as protected under the Second Amendment. She is identified by the Progressive Voters Guide as a champion of gun violence prevention, consistently supporting legislation restricting firearms in public spaces and expanding background checks.
- BallotpediaCenter
- Progressive Voters GuideLeft Advocacy
- richmondsunlight.comUnclassified
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
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes cashless-bail, soft-on-crime, and rogue-prosecutor (e.g. Soros-DA) policy
Not yet verified
Candidate supports victim restitution and proportional punishment of evildoers
Not yet verified
Candidate refuses to treat violent crime as a "public health" excuse to avoid punishment
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
Not yet verified
Official has declined unconstitutional federal mandates or federal strings on the state
Not yet verified
Official has resisted federal overreach on guns, life, education, or religious liberty
Not yet verified
Official affirms state sovereignty against unconstitutional federal action
Not yet verified
Official has opposed federal capture of state elections, data, or land
Not yet verified
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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/Vivian_E._WattsEncyclopedia
Vote Smart — Voting RecordReference
vivianwatts.comUnclassified
vivianwatts.com/aboutUnclassified
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_WattsEncyclopedia
vivianwatts.com/about/Unclassified
vivianwatts.com/legislation/Unclassified
Ballotpedia ProfileCenter
Ballotpedia ProfileCenter
giffords.org/candidates/vivian-watts/Unclassified
Planned Parenthood ActionLeft Advocacy
vademocrats.org/your-party/Unclassified
democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/Unclassified
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References & footnotes
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- [1]kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (leftover sanctity_of_life q2) — DNC IVF + medication abortion. Not leftover personhood/abolition (those live). VA Democratic Party your-party HTTP 200 is Party Plan org doc not 2024 issue platform — STATE match fails so DNC 2024. Live cells not rewritten. Unclassified
kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (leftover sanctity_of_life q2) — DNC IVF + medication abortion. Not leftover personhood/abolition (those live). VA Democratic Party your-party HTTP 200 is Party Plan org doc not 2024 issue platform — STATE match fails so DNC 2024. Live cells not rewritten.
- [2]kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (leftover sanctity_of_life q2) — DNC IVF + medication abortion. Not leftover personhood/abolition (those live). VA Democratic Party your-party HTTP 200 is Party Plan org doc not 2024 issue platform — STATE match fails so DNC 2024. Live cells not rewritten. Unclassified
kind: party_platform. Scored from the 2024 Democratic Party Platform (leftover sanctity_of_life q2) — DNC IVF + medication abortion. Not leftover personhood/abolition (those live). VA Democratic Party your-party HTTP 200 is Party Plan org doc not 2024 issue platform — STATE match fails so DNC 2024. Live cells not rewritten.
- [3]Affirmative PAC/foreign-lobby search 2026-08-29. Brave site:fec.gov quoted-name leftover PAC/abortion-industry 0 hits for Vivian Watts. FEC candidate browse URL cited (HTTP 200 JS shell). OpenSecrets HTML 403 this turn — omitted. PPAV still-listed endorsement is not leftover PAC dollars. no-hit=TRUE. Official
Affirmative PAC/foreign-lobby search 2026-08-29. Brave site:fec.gov quoted-name leftover PAC/abortion-industry 0 hits for Vivian Watts. FEC candidate browse URL cited (HTTP 200 JS shell). OpenSecrets HTML 403 this turn — omitted. PPAV still-listed endorsement is not leftover PAC dollars. no-hit=TRUE.
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