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Forty-four of Virginia’s 140 part-time, citizen lawmakers own at least $5,000 worth of stock in companies that lobby the General Assembly.

Nineteen of those lawmakers own somewhere between $50,000 and $250,000 in stock in those companies with interests before them, while seven lawmakers own more than $250,000 in stock, according to figures released Thursday by the Virginia Public Access Project, a nonpartisan tracker of money in state politics.

The listings — of individual holdings, excluding mutual fund investments — provide insight into how elected officials invest their money in the stock market, and how much of it they have to invest. Not surprisingly, the most commonly held stocks among lawmakers are blue-chip investments ranging from tech behemoths to energy, health care and banking.

VPAP organized the figures into lists: the most commonly held stocks by legislators, legislator holdings of companies that do business before the General Assembly, and overall stock holdings by legislators. It compiled the data from financial forms lawmakers filed last December that require disclosure of all companies in which they own at least $5,000 in stock.