The League of Women Voters of the Fairfax Area Records contains material from the LWVFA's activities from 1947 to present day, including documentation of its activities and efforts, organizational documents and correspondence, studies on local and national issues, information on political issues and candidate positions, meeting minutes, newsletters, photographs, audiovisual materials, and memorabilia.

The collection is arranged in eight series. Each series serves as a records group, and restarts with Box 1 to allow for future accessions to be easily added to the collection. Each series is arranged chronologically, though future additions may not be in chronological order. The 8 series are: League History, Meeting Minutes and Organizational Documents; Membership, Member Education, and Events; Programs, Action, and Services; Publications; Correspondence; Conventions and Meetings; Audiovisual Materials; and Memorabilia.

Series 1: League History, Meeting Minutes and Organizational Documents (1955 - 1990s). This series contains documentation of the running of the LWVFA, such as board meeting minutes, agendas, reports, Directors' files, and budgets.

Series 2: Membership, Member Education, and Events (1947 - 2022). This series contains information on membership to the league, as well as efforts to educate members and execute events, such as members lists, subject-specific memoranda, bulletins, pamphlets, newsletters, handbooks, and bylaws.

Series 3: Programs, Action, and Services (1954 - circa 2020). This series contains documents on specific League programs and "Action" or specific efforts to take positions on laws or events happening in government/the community, such as Action Alerts, press releases, Action-relatec correspondence and memoranda, candidates forums documentation, and homeowners associations election files.

Series 4: Publications (1970 - 2017). This series contains publications directly created by the League, including multiple iterations of "Facts For Voters," informational pamphlets on various local issues, correspondence, newsclippings, and newsletters.

Series 5: Correspondence (1972 - 2012). This series contains correspondence between League members and local/U.S. politicans on a number of issues, as well as internal League correspondence.

Series 6: Conventions and Meetings (1957 - 2019). This series contains memoranda, workbooks, and programs from a multitude of LWV meetings and conventions, both local and national.

Series 7: Audiovisual Materials (1981 - circa 2010s). This series contains audiovisual materials such as oral histories on cassette, documents and supplementary materials on CD-ROM, DVDs, and a 1981 television program the LWVFA assisted in producing on U-Matic tape.

Series 8: Memorabilia (circa 1920s - circa 2010s). This series contains memorabilia collected and created by the LWVFA, including a pencil owned by LWV founder Carrie Chapman Catt, buttons stating political positions, bumper stickers, and scrapbooks.