162nd Virginia General Assembly | |||||
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Term | January 12, 2022 – | ||||
Senate of Virginia | |||||
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Members | 40 | ||||
President of the Senate | Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears (R) | ||||
Senate Majority Leader | Dick Saslaw (D) | ||||
Senate Minority Leader | Tommy Norment (R) | ||||
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Virginia House of Delegates | |||||
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Members | 100 | ||||
Speaker of the House | Todd Gilbert (R) | ||||
House Majority Leader | Terry Kilgore (R) | ||||
House Minority Leader | Don Scott (D) | ||||
Party control |
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The 162nd Virginia General Assembly, consisting of members who were elected in both the House election in 2021 and the Senate election in 2019, convened on January 12, 2022. The legislature is the first since the 156th Assembly ended in 2012 to be of divided party control, with Republicans again controlling the House of Delegates and Democrats holding the Senate.[1]