Voters across the Heart of Virginia will head back to the polls on Tuesday, Jan. 10 to choose their next representative in the Virginia Senate.

On Tuesday, Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, issued a writ of election for the soon-to-be vacant 22nd District State Senate seat, which will soon be vacated by Tom Garrett, a Republican from Buckingham, who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on Nov. 8, succeeding retiring U.S. Rep. Robert Hurt.

Last December, Hurt, a Republican, said he wouldn’t seek re-election to Congress.

The deadline for candidates to file for the special election, according to the governor’s writ, is Monday at 5 p.m.

Two candidates are seeking to get the nod from the state Republican Party for the nomination to run for the Senate seat: Lynchburg attorney Mark Peake and Goochland County Supervisor Ken Peterson, according to Daniel Bradshaw, the chairman of the 22nd Senate District Republican Committee.

The Republican candidate will be chosen during a convention on Saturday at 10 a.m. at Hampden-Sydney College’s Kirk Athletic Center. The deadline has passed for candidates to file for the party’s nomination.

Democrats have one candidate seeking the party’s nod: former Fluvanna County Sheriff Ryant L. Washington.

Washington works as a special policy adviser for the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control.

The Democratic candidate will be chosen Saturday at the Moton Museum. Democrats are set to caucus at 11 a.m. The filing deadline for Democrats is Thursday at 5 p.m.

Rice resident Joe C. Hines has announced his intention to run for the seat.

Hines, the principal and director of economic development at Timmons Group, a multifaceted engineering firm, said he’s running as an “independent conservative.”

Hines, who graduated from Fuqua School in Farmville and was raised in Prince Edward County, said that once he gathers enough signatures and officially becomes a candidate he’d send out a formal announcement.

The district includes the counties of Amherst, Appomattox, Buckingham, Cumberland, Fluvanna, Goochland, Prince Edward and Louisa and the city of Lynchburg.