---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 1711"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "1711"
heading: "Delegate to House of Representatives from Guam and Virgin Islands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/1711"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Delegates to Congress"
  - "Subchapter I — Guam and Virgin Islands"
---

# §1711. Delegate to House of Representatives from Guam and Virgin Islands


The territory of Guam and the territory of the Virgin Islands each shall be represented in the United States Congress by a nonvoting Delegate to the House of Representatives, elected as hereinafter provided.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–271, § 1, Apr. 10, 1972, 86 Stat. 118.)