When you can file to run, the campaign committee, bank account, and finance-report rules you'll have to follow, and a link to the state's full candidate guide.
A link to current vacancies and the application for the county's committees, councils, boards, and commissions, where more than 150 residents volunteer; questions go to County Administration at 804-693-4042.
How to apply: pick up the forms at the Elections & Voter Registration office, and the Electoral Board will reply before the next election with training details if you're needed; the page doesn't list pay.
Each of them ran for a city council or a state legislature, won, and did work you’ll find on this site. Running is one way in. Serving on a board or working the polls are others.
See where to startFrom left: Chi Ossé (D), Bill Stanley (R), and Louise Lucas (D).
From left: Chi Ossé (D), Bill Stanley (R), Louise Lucas (D), Emmett Hanger (R), and Michelle Hinchey (D).
Illustrations from photos.See the photo of Ossé (New York City Council), opens in a new tab© New York City Council, used as a drawing reference.See the photo of Stanley (Office of the Governor of Virginia, via Wikimedia Commons), opens in a new tabCC BY 4.0.See the photo of Lucas (Senate of Virginia), opens in a new tab
Illustrations from photos.See the photo of Ossé (New York City Council), opens in a new tab© New York City Council, used as a drawing reference.See the photo of Stanley (Office of the Governor of Virginia, via Wikimedia Commons), opens in a new tabCC BY 4.0.See the photo of Lucas (Senate of Virginia), opens in a new tabSee the photo of Hanger (Senate of Virginia), opens in a new tab© Senate of Virginia, used as a drawing reference.See the photo of Hinchey (NY Senate, via Wikimedia Commons), opens in a new tabCC BY 2.5.
