Top 5 Business Funding Sources

The Energy industry, led by Dominion Energy, is the largest source of political donations outside of candidate and party contributions to the campaigns of Sens. Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth) and Lionell Spruill (D-Chesapeake).

OpenSecrets assigns political donors an economic interest code modeled on designations used by the federal government for classifying industry groups. For the purposes of this analysis, the gambling industry was expanded to include United Company and Urban One, two companies involved in the development of casinos in Virginia. Totals also exclude $100,000 in political donations from Lucas' company, Lucas Hospitality.
Chart: Jimmy Cloutier/OpenSecrets Source: Total contributions based on state data collected by OpenSecrets through June 8, 2023.