Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Democrat James Walkinshaw won in Virginia's solid blue 11th congressional district in an expected win in the bellwether state to succeed the late U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly.
The election to win the seat vacated by Connolly, who died in May aged 75 from lingering effects of esophageal cancer, will give Democrats 213 House members to the GOP's current majority of 219.
Walkinshaw, a Fairfax County supervisor who was Connolly's chief of staff and aide for more than 10 years, defeated the Republican nominee: retired FBI agent and U.S. Army veteran Stewart Whitson.
Walkinshaw, 42, could be sworn-in as early as Tuesday to his congressional seat covering the suburbs of Washington and the large part of Fairfax County.
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