Cheryl Turpin | |
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Member of the
Virginia House of Delegates from the 85th district | |
In office January 10, 2018 – January 8, 2020 | |
Preceded by | Rocky Holcomb |
Succeeded by | Alex Askew |
Personal details | |
Born | Cheryl Baldwin Turpin 1963 (age 60–61) Fort Bragg, North Carolina, U.S. |
Political party | Democratic |
Children | 2 |
Residence | Virginia Beach, Virginia |
Alma mater | |
Profession | Teacher |
Cheryl Baldwin Turpin (born 1963) is an American politician who served as the delegate in the Virginia House of Delegates for the 85th district representing a part of Virginia Beach from 2018 to 2020. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Turpin was born at Womack Hospital in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in 1963 to George and Patricia Baldwin. [1] She grew up in a military family that eventually settled in Fairfax County, Virginia. [2] She has worked as a science teacher in Virginia Beach, most recently teaching at Frank W. Cox High School where she teaches Advanced Placement Environmental Science.[ citation needed]
She won the general election to the Virginia House of Delegates for the 85th district held on November 7, 2017, to succeed Rocky Holcomb, whom she had lost to in a special election earlier in the year. [3] In March 2019, Turpin declared her candidacy for the Senate of Virginia's 7th district after state senator Frank Wagner announced his retirement. [4] She won the June 11 primary with 58% of the vote. [5] In the November 2019 general election, Turpin lost to Republican Jen Kiggans by about a 1% margin. [6]
Date | Election | Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Virginia House of Delegates, 85th district | ||||||
Jan 10, 2017 [7] | Special | Rocky Holcomb | Republican | 3,301 | 52.8 | |
Cheryl Turpin | Democratic | 2,939 | 47.0 | |||
Write Ins | 7 | 0.01 | ||||
The seat was open because incumbent Scott Taylor was elected to the US House of Representatives in Nov 2016; seat stayed Republican | ||||||
Nov 7, 2017 [8] | General | Cheryl Turpin | Democratic | 11,848 | 50.73 | |
Rocky Holcomb | Republican | 11,454 | 49.06 | |||
Write Ins | 48 | 0.21 | ||||
Incumbent lost; seat switched from Republican to Democratic | ||||||
Virginia Senate, 7th district | ||||||
June 11, 2019 [9] | Primary | Cheryl Turpin | Democratic | 3,268 | 58.78 | |
Susan B. Hippen | Democratic | 1,531 | 27.54 | |||
Kim E. Howard | Democratic | 761 | 13.69 | |||
Nov 5, 2019 [6] | General | Jen Kiggans | Republican | 29,609 | 50.36 | |
Cheryl Turpin | Democratic | 29,098 | 49.49 | |||
Write Ins | 91 | 0.15 |