Powhatan has lately become much more of a suburb of the Richmond area - more of an extension of Chesterfield. This map is outdated in its expectation that Powhatan is culturally and socially more aligned with the western counties, which it just is not any longer.

I believe that Districts 24 should be redrawn to make it a majority African-American district. It is possible to have 4 majority African-American districts in Southside and Tidewater. I submitted a Senate map with this possibility. This map only has 3 and unfairly dilutes African-American voting strength.

District 26 is a blatant gerrymander. District 26 is not compact. District 26 combines stretches too far to connect two far away communities.

District 8 is not compact. This district is too long. Districts like this are not the best way to keep communities of interest together. The district also extends beyond Fairfax County into PW County for no reason. There were plenty of more neighborhoods in Fairfax that could be part of this district. Districts like this prevent citizens from understanding their district. Districts like this prevent good representation by forcing representatives to represent too many different towns. Districts like this prevent citizens from having a central place to protest.

District 9 is not compact. Manassas and has been completely separated from almost every other neighboring community. Manassas is a community not far from I-66 but somehow is part of district touching I-95.

Agree with other commenters that district 26 seems completely gerrymandered to pack all residents along 95 into one district. Needs to be redrawn so Richmond residents are together!

This district doesn't seem to make much sense to me.

Good to see the map drawers trying to keep the City and counties whole but Version #103 B3 does a much better job of capturing the "communities of interest" around the City of Fredericksburg.

HD-26 is a shameless gerrymander. It is ​contiguous only by the fact it is on the 95 corridor.

9/18 A3 for SD 33 makes much less sense than the B3 option from a community of interest point of view. Much better to use the Shenandoah Mountains as a boundary and keep the new SD for Culpeper-Madison counties, etc. in union with other zones east of the mountains. Again, this is far more in concert with resourcing these areas from a human services point of view.

District 8 is badly configured. It actually follows the current configuration, which is a partisan gerrymander. In fact, most of the Northern Virginia seats are not based on community of interest. I assume the mapmaker based the entire Nova map on creating a GOP vote sink in Western Prince William County and Southern Fauquier County. The Manassas-to-Occoquan district is also not a community of interest. It splits off Manassas from its northern suburbs like Sudley, Bull Run, Loch Lomond and Yorkshire, and pairs it with communities far away like Montclair. I'm also not sure what the motivation is for creating a Fredericksburg seat that takes in King George County instead of the adjacent Spotsylvania suburbs. This one also appears to be motivated by a desire to create a strong GOP district in Fredericksburg, rather than meeting the State's criteria. I also question the configurations for District #13 and District #33. Having two districts that cross Shenandoah National Park is a very blatantly odd choice, as Culpeper and Rockingham County are far apart from each other and getting from one to the other requires crossing a mountain range!

Why is Richmond split into 3 districts? As a community of interest the entire urban area should be included in one district.

SD-26 is an gerrymander that disregards COI and compactness in order to pack black voters.