The 18th House district incumbent, Republican
Clay Athey of
Front Royal, did not run for re-election in 2011 following redistricting that radically altered the map of the district. The following year, the General Assembly appointed Athey a
circuit court judge. In 2011, Webert won the
Republican primary with 56.4% of the vote, defeating Kevin P. Kelley of
Warrenton with 2,016 votes to Kelley's 1,556. He then won the general election with 69.6% of the vote, defeating
Democratic candidate Bob L. Zwick of
The Plains. He received 9,749 votes while Zwick received 4,264. In 2013, Webert won reelection with 63.3% of the vote, defeating
Democratic nominee Colin S. Harris, a 22-year-old aerospace executive from
Orlean, in the general election. He received 15,549 votes while Harris received 8,979 votes, or 36.5% of the vote. This was (and remains, as of 2019) the strongest Democratic performance in the strongly Republican 18th district since 2001, when Peter B. Schwartz of
Marshall won 37.3% of the vote in a three-way race against Athey and independent candidate Jerry M. Wood of Warrenton (who had previously served one term in the House of Delegates as a Democrat from 1992 to 1994). Webert ran unopposed in the 2015 election, winning 96.9% of the vote. In the 2017 election, Webert won his fourth term in the House of Delegates, defeating
Democratic candidate Tristan D. Shields, a musician from
Rixeyville, and
Green Party candidate Wilton King, a retired Marine and federal air marshal from
Bealeton. He received 16,686 votes while Shields received 9,486 and King received 1,433. ==References==