2024 United States Virgin Islands general election

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.

Primary elections will be held on August 3, 2024. 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

Prediction: The Democratic Party is favored to win the majority of seats

2024 United States Virgin Islands legislative election

November 5, 2024 (2024-11-05)
All 15 seats in the Legislature of the Virgin Islands
Majority party Minority party Third party   Party Democratic Independent Republican Last election 11 seats 4 seats   Fourth party   Party Independent Citizens Movement
Senate President before election Novelle Francis Democratic Elected Senate President TBD

Candidates

At-large district

Prediction: Democrat Angel Bolques Jr. likely to win reelection

• Incumbent Senator Angel Bolques Jr. (D)
• Lorelei Monsanto (I), daughter of Wilma Marsh Monsanto and 2010 candidate for Senator At-Large

St. Croix district

Primary election

Prediction: Francis, Gittens, Marise C. James, Diane Capehart, Clifford Joseph, Hubert Fredrick, Vialet likely to win the election

• Attorney Russell Pate (D)
• Incumbent Kenneth Gittens (D)
• Genevieve Whitaker (D), former V.I. senator (2021-2023)
• Incumbent Senator Diane Capehart (D)
• Nereida Rivera-O’Reilly (D), former V.I. senator (2011-2019)
• Justin Curtis Smith (D)
• Hubert Fredrick (D)
• Kurt Vialet (D), former V.I. senator and 2022 candidate for governor
• Incumbent Senator Marise C. James (D), former Senior policy adviser to Governor Bryan.
• Michael Springer Jr. (D)
• Clifford Joseph (D), former Director of V.I. Fire Services under Governor Mapp.
• Incumbent Senator Novelle Francis (D)

General election

• Krystal Hardy (R)
• Diane Prosper (I)
• Incumbent Senator Franklin D. Johnson (I)
• Troy C. Williams (I)
• Julian S. Veira (I)
• Jelani L. Ritter (I)
• Incumbent Senator Samuel Carrion (I)
• Norman Jn Baptiste (I)
• Eric M. Gautreau II (I)
• James P.G. Wakefield (I)
• Tammy M. Smith (I)
• Lisa J. Charles (I)
• Oakland Benta (I)

St. Thomas-St. John district

• Michael Smith (D)
• Incumbent Senator Carla Joseph (D)
• Incumbent Senator Ray Fonseca (D)
• Incumbent Senator Milton E. Potter (D)
• Avery Lewis (D), St. Thomas administrator and former principal of Joseph Gomez Elementary School
• Incumbent Senator Marvin Blyden (D)
• Shanelle Fina Francis (D)
• Derrick Callwood (R), St. Thomas businessman and former V.I. police officer
• Collister Fahie (R), Disaster Recovery Manager for UVI and native of St. Kitts.
• Incumbent Senator Dwayne M. DeGraff (I)
• Incumbent Senator Alma Francis-Heyliger (I)
• Eugene DJ Farrell (I)
• Dr. Krishna Kilaru, MD (I)
• Margaret Price (ICM)

Declined to seek reelection

• Incumbent Senator Javan James (D)
• Incumbent Senator Donna Frett-Gregory (D)

Delegate to the United States House of Representatives

2024 United States House of Representatives election in the United States Virgin Islands' at-large district

November 5, 2024

Candidate Stacey Plaskett Ronald Pickard Party Democratic Republican

Delegate at-large before election Stacey Plaskett Democratic Elected Delegate at-large TBD

The 2024 United States House of Representatives election in the United States Virgin Islands is an upcoming election on November 5, 2024, to elect a non-voting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the United States Virgin Islands' at-large congressional district. The election coincides with the larger 2024 United States House of Representatives elections and the legislative election in the United States Virgin Islands.

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, Medicaid and the expansion of SSI to the territory will decide the fate of this election.

Candidates

• Incumbent Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D)
• Ronald Pickard (R), a former V.I. police officer and 2022 candidate for governor.
• Ida Smith (Independent) - Eliminated

2024 Delegate to U.S. House of Representatives election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Stacey Plaskett (incumbent)
	Republican	Ronald Pickard
	N/A	Write-In

Board of Education

Candidates

St. Croix district

• Incumbent Member Emmanuella Perez-Cassius (D)
• Terrell Alexandre (D)
• Mary “Peggy” Moorhead (I)

St. Thomas-St. John district

• Bruce C. Flamon (D)
• Incumbent Member Kyza A. Callwood (D)
• Incumbent Member Nandi Sekou (D)
• Sophia del Rosario (R)

Board of Elections

Candidates

St. Croix district

Primary election

• Cornelius JnBapiste (D)
• Anthony Mardenborough Jr. (D)
• Simone James (D)

General election

• Cleopatra Peter (R)
• Lilliana Belardo De O’Neal (R)
• Franz A. Christian Jr. (R)
• Michael A. Joseph (R)
• Epiphane “Joe” Joseph (I)

St. Thomas-St. John district

• Angeli Leerdam (D)
• Ida Mae F. Brown (D)
• Chaneel M. Callwood (D)
• Lawerence Boschulte (D)
• Barbara LaRonde (R)
• Henry G. Arthur Jr. (R)

Constitutional Convention

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.

Candidates	District	Candidates	District
Michael “Mikey” Springer Jr.	St. Croix	Hadiya Sewer	St. Thomas-St. John
Maria R. Nieves	St. Croix	David Silverman	St. Thomas-St. John
Johann A. Clendenin	St. Croix	Rudel A. Hodge Jr.	St. Thomas-St. John
Usie Raymond Richards	St. Croix	Hugo A. Roller	St. Thomas-St. John
John J. Abramson Jr.	St. Croix	Alecia Wells	St. Thomas-St. John
Lilliana Belardo De O’Neal	St. Croix	Stedmann Hodge Jr.	St. Thomas-St. John
Rupert W. Ross Jr.	St. Croix	Arturo Watlington Jr.	St. Thomas-St. John
Ronald Russell	St. Croix
John Canegata	St. Croix
Bernadette Patricia Welcome	St. Croix
Diana P. Osborne	St. Croix
Devin Carrington	St. Croix
Sheila A. Scullion	St. Croix
Raymond James	St. Croix