RICHMOND, Va.—Out of the three toss-up House races in Virginia that could decide the next House majority, both Democrats and Republicans have kept their current territories.
Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-Va.) won re-election in the Virginia Beach-anchored 2nd congressional district; Democrat candidates Eugene Vindman and Suhas Subramanyam won the open seats in northern Virginia’s highly contested 7th and 10th congressional districts, respectively.
First-term congresswoman Kiggans, a former Virginia state Senator and retired Navy helicopter pilot, defeated her Democratic challenger Missy Cotter Smasal, a retired Navy officer and former small business owner, by 4.1 points.
The 2nd district, which has an outsized military presence due to the world’s largest naval base nearby, has twice changed hands between the major political parties in the past six years. Kiggans defeated the Democratic incumbent by 3.4 percent in 2022….