# Briana Sewell

Briana Sewell is a Democratic member of the Virginia House for district 25.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Virginia House, district 25
- Serving since: 2024-01-10
- Current term: VA 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/23775904-887c-4a2c-9424-0683608193ba

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/23775904-887c-4a2c-9424-0683608193ba (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

49% of Sewell’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Virginia, in the bottom tenth of State House Democrats.

## What Sewell says (VA 2025–26 session)

118 classified statements: 118 posts on X. Each rate is the share of statements with the label, against the State House Democrats average; rank 1 is the highest rate.

| Label | Sewell | State House Democrats average | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal attacks | 0.0% | 2.5% | 584 of 764 |
| Policy criticism | 5.9% | 10.4% | 447 of 764 |
| Policy discussion | 36.4% | 39.2% | 433 of 764 |
| Bipartisanship | 1.7% | 2.9% | 408 of 764 |
| Credit claiming | 16.1% | 14.4% | 303 of 764 |
| Extreme labels | 0.0% | 1.0% | 543 of 764 |

Most discussed policy areas: Health 23% (State House Democrats 15%); Labor and Employment 19% (State House Democrats 5.7%); Families 16% (State House Democrats 5.0%); Agriculture and Food 14% (State House Democrats 4.6%); Economics and Public Finance 14% (State House Democrats 11%).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.83 (standard error 0.02), from 761 donors and 764 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 21% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Votes (VA 2025–26 session)

3,859 roll calls. Attendance 99.5% (Virginia House 98.2%). Party unity 98.5% (96.5%). 33 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (VA 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 33 bills: 33 reached committee, 24 passed one chamber, 19 passed both, 17 became law. Cosponsored 152. 87.9% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Virginia House 84.4%; rank 44 of 98).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HR 446: Commending Hawkins-Reeve Post 7916 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-13) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2026/HR446/
- HB 1446: School nurses; sickle cell disease training. (became law, 2026-04-13) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2026/HB1446/
- HB 1226: Motor Vehicles, Department of; release of data to certain institutions of higher education, fees. (became law, 2026-04-06) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2026/HB1226/
- HB 1237: Cemeteries; maintenance of abandoned or neglected graveyards, owner unknown. (became law, 2026-04-06) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2026/HB1237/
- HB 1219: Unmanned aircraft systems; use by law-enforcement officers, search warrants. (became law, 2026-04-06) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2026/HB1219/
- HB 1207: Paid family & med. leave insurance program; definitions, notice requirements, civil action, report. (passed both chambers, 2026-04-13) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2026/HB1207/
- HB 1234: Land development; definitions, solar canopies in surface parking areas, delayed effective date. (became law, 2026-04-13) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2026/HB1234/
- HB 1230: Income tax, state; sustainable aviation fuel production tax credit. (in committee, 2026-07-21) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2027/HB1230/
- HB 1212: Zoning; small lot residential districts. (became law, 2026-04-13) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2026/HB1212/
- HB 1208: Public education; early childhood care and education, child care access calculations, report. (became law, 2026-04-08) https://openstates.org/va/bills/2026/HB1208/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $84.5K (State House Democrats median $40.4K). 49% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Recent statements

Newest first. Posts on X are listed by date and link only.

- 2026-10-23 · Post on X · https://x.com/https://twitter.com/BrianaSewellVA/status/2113760745707999705
- 2026-10-19 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/https://twitter.com/BrianaSewellVA/status/2112274215504125986
- 2026-09-20 · Post on X · https://x.com/https://twitter.com/BrianaSewellVA/status/2101822467614363925
- 2026-09-18 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/https://twitter.com/BrianaSewellVA/status/2100991175721423200
- 2026-09-17 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/https://twitter.com/BrianaSewellVA/status/2100621182504730971
- 2026-09-11 · Post on X · https://x.com/https://twitter.com/BrianaSewellVA/status/2098387026588385495
- 2026-09-11 · Post on X · https://x.com/https://twitter.com/BrianaSewellVA/status/2098387028819771833
- 2026-09-11 · Post on X · https://x.com/https://twitter.com/BrianaSewellVA/status/2098555688062435571
- 2026-08-24 · Post on X · https://x.com/https://twitter.com/BrianaSewellVA/status/2091921570352513522
- 2026-08-20 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/https://twitter.com/BrianaSewellVA/status/2090500460129972257

## Links

- Official site: https://virginiageneralassembly.gov/house/members/members.php?id=H0343
- Campaign site: https://www.brianaforcongress.com/
- X: https://x.com/BrianaSewellVA
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BrianaSewellVA/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/briana.sewell.50
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/BrianaSewellVA/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BrianaSewellforCongress
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/briana-sewell-4a984837/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/23775904-887c-4a2c-9424-0683608193ba