Three candidates announce bid for Wexton’s seat

Three politicians have announced they are running for Rep. Jennifer Wexton’s (D-Dist. 10) congressional seat after the congresswoman announced in September that she will not seek reelection due to health problems.

Dist. 10 encompasses Loudoun, Fauquier and Rappahannock Counties and parts of Fairfax and Prince William County, along with the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park.

Wexton was first elected to Congress in 2018 and disclosed she has been diagnosed with a rare and progressive form of Parkinson’s disease. Her current two-year term ends in January 2025.

State Senator Jennifer Boysko, D-Fairfax, publicly announced Thursday on social media that she will seek the Democratic nomination for Wexton’s seat. Boysko announced her run for Congress just two days after she was reelected to the state Senate last week. Boysko served in the House of Delegates from 2016 to 2019 and has served in the Senate the past four years.

A second contender for Wexton’s seat is former Virginia Speaker of the House Eileen Filler-Corn, D-Fairfax, who announced last month that she will run for the seat rather than seek the Democratic nomination for governor in 2025 when Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s term ends. Unlike other state governors, Virginia governors are not allowed to serve consecutive terms due to term limits in the state’s Constitution.

Filler-Corn does not live in Dist. 10. She represents Dist. 41 in the House of Delegates, which covers the Burke area of Fairfax County.

Mike Clancy, a Loudoun resident who last year sought the Republican nomination for the 10th Congressional District but lost, announced in early October that he will again seek his party’s nomination for Wexton’s seat. He was the first to announce the intention to run. He is a lawyer and business executive with a global technology company.

The primary will occur on June 18, 2024, and the general election will occur on Nov. 5, 2024.