The 2024 United States Virgin Islands general election will take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, to elect the non-voting delegate to the
United States House of Representatives, all 15 seats in the
Legislature of the Virgin Islands, members of the Virgin Islands Board of Elections, Board of Education, and the 15 delegates to the Sixth Constitutional Convention.[1]
Primary elections will be held on August 3, 2024.[2] In May 2024, the
Democratic Party of the Virgin Islands challenged the Supervisor of Elections Caroline Fawkes after she concluded that her office may be restricted from funding and conducting party primaries following a January 2024 ruling by
District Court of the Virgin Islands.
Legislature of the Virgin Islands
2024 United States Virgin Islands legislative election
The U.S. Virgin Island's non-voting delegate is elected for a two-year term in office. Incumbent delegate
Stacey Plaskett, a
Democrat who was first elected in
2014, and most recently re-elected with 98.7% of the vote in
2022, to a sixth term.
Several issues such as veterans affairs,
rum cover-over,
USPS mail delivery,[5]Medicaid and the expansion of
SSI to the territory will decide the fate of this election.[6]
A
2020 referendum was approved by voters calling for the Legislature to enact legislation to convene a constitutional convention. A bill on the calling of the sixth constitutional convention was approved on 29 December 2022. Currently,
Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands are the only
United States territories without a constitution.
The 2024 United States Virgin Islands general election will take place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, to elect the non-voting delegate to the
United States House of Representatives, all 15 seats in the
Legislature of the Virgin Islands, members of the Virgin Islands Board of Elections, Board of Education, and the 15 delegates to the Sixth Constitutional Convention.[1]
Primary elections will be held on August 3, 2024.[2] In May 2024, the
Democratic Party of the Virgin Islands challenged the Supervisor of Elections Caroline Fawkes after she concluded that her office may be restricted from funding and conducting party primaries following a January 2024 ruling by
District Court of the Virgin Islands.
Legislature of the Virgin Islands
2024 United States Virgin Islands legislative election
The U.S. Virgin Island's non-voting delegate is elected for a two-year term in office. Incumbent delegate
Stacey Plaskett, a
Democrat who was first elected in
2014, and most recently re-elected with 98.7% of the vote in
2022, to a sixth term.
Several issues such as veterans affairs,
rum cover-over,
USPS mail delivery,[5]Medicaid and the expansion of
SSI to the territory will decide the fate of this election.[6]
A
2020 referendum was approved by voters calling for the Legislature to enact legislation to convene a constitutional convention. A bill on the calling of the sixth constitutional convention was approved on 29 December 2022. Currently,
Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands are the only
United States territories without a constitution.