Virginia New Members 2025

Rep.-elect John McGuire (R-Va.-5)

Date of Birth / Aug. 24, 1968
Residence / Goochland County, Va.
Occupation / Small business owner, SEAL Team PT Inc.
Family / Married to wife Tracy with five children and a dog named Remi

Rep.-elect John McGuire (R) will represent Virginia’s 5th Congressional District after unseating Rep. Bob Good in one of this cycle’s most hotly contested GOP primaries.

President-elect Trump endorsed McGuire in the primary, and he went on to beat Good by a narrow 374-vote margin, a victory upheld after a recount.

McGuire has said he attended the “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, but did not storm the Capitol that day.

The district is solidly Republican, and McGuire defeated Democratic candidate Gloria Witt in the general election.

McGuire spent 10 years as a Navy SEAL and later founded the fitness company SEAL Team Physical Training. He has been a member of the Virginia state Senate since 2023 and previously served in the Virginia House of Delegates.

He grew up in central Virginia and spent his early childhood years in the foster system, attending nine elementary schools before his grandparents were able to raise him and his older sister, according to his campaign website.

— Taylor Giorno

Rep.-elect Eugene Vindman (D-Va.-7)

Date of Birth / June 6, 1975
Residence / Woodbridge, Va.
Occupation / Attorney
Education / Binghamton University
Family / Married to Cindy with son Max and daughter Madi

Democrat Eugene Vindman is set to represent Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, succeeding Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who stepped down to pursue a bid for governor.

Vindman came to national attention in 2019, along with twin brother Alexander Vindman, as a whistleblower in then-President Trump’s national security council (NSC) who raised the alarm over the president’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, leading to the former president’s first impeachment. The brothers were fired from the NSC by Trump in the aftermath of the impeachment trial.

Vindman was born in Soviet-era Ukraine to a Jewish family and came to the U.S. as a refugee in 1979. He served in the Army and became a prosecutor in the JAG Corps. He said he was motivated to run for Congress to combat Trump’s “Make America Great Again” base.

Vindman also described the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade as a key factor in his decision to run for Congress, saying he is concerned that his teenage daughter has “less rights than women have enjoyed for decades.”

— Laura Kelly

Rep.-elect Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.-10)

Mark Miller, The Washington Post via Associated Press

Date of Birth / Sept. 26, 1986
Residence / Loudoun County, Va.
Occupation / Attorney, Virginia state senator
Education / B.A., Tulane University; J.D., Northwestern University
Family / Married to Miranda Peña Subramanyam with two daughters.

Rep.-elect Suhas Subramanyam (D-Va.) will succeed incumbent Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D) in Virginia’s 10th Congressional District.

Wexton was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy in 2023 and announced she would not seek reelection for health reasons. She endorsed Subramanyam ahead of the Democratic primary, giving him a boost that helped him beat out a crowded field of contenders.

Subramanyam, a first-generation Indian American and a volunteer firefighter, has been a member of the Virginia state Senate since January and was previously a member of the Virginia House of Delegates.

He was previously a White House technology policy adviser to then-President Obama and clerked for the Senate Judiciary Committee under Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.).

His policy priorities include protecting women's health care, supporting responsible gun ownership and safety laws, promoting environmental protections and renewable energy and getting money out of politics, according to his campaign website.

— Taylor Giorno

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