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Virginia voters in Fairfax City and Fairfax County will head to the polls on Sept. 9 to elect a candidate to fill the Congressional seat vacated by the late Rep. Gerry Connolly.

Longtime Democratic Congressman Connolly died in May after a battle with cancer . He served the congressional district for 16 years.

The special election will select Connolly’s successor in Virginia’s 11th Congressional District, which is home to more than 700,000 people. The district has become reliably Democratic; it includes all of Fairfax City and much of Fairfax County.

James Walkinshaw, Connolly’s former chief of staff and the Braddo

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