Surry polls open Tuesday for 4th Congressional District special election

Published 12:12 pm Monday, February 20, 2023

On Tuesday, Surry County voters will head to the polls to choose who will succeed the late U.S. Rep. A. Donald McEachin in Congress.

Polls will open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.

McEachin, a Democrat, represented Virginia’s 4th Congressional District, which spans from Richmond to the North Carolina border and includes Surry County. He was reelected to a two-year term in the U.S. House of Representatives on Nov. 8 but died Nov. 28 after a nine-year battle with cancer.

State Sen. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, and McEachin’s 2022 Republican challenger, Leon Benjamin, each won their party’s respective nominations for McEachin’s seat in December.