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Map based on last Senate election in each state as of 2024. Starting with the 2000 United States presidential election, the terms "red state" and "blue state" have referred to US states whose voters vote predominantly for one party—the Republican Party in red states and the Democratic Party in blue states—in presidential and other statewide elections.
Of the state's eleven seats in the House of Representatives, Democrats hold six and Republicans hold five. The state is widely considered blue-leaning, a trend that moves parallel with the growth of the Washington D.C. and Richmond suburbs but has been recognized as a swing state by some in light of the 2021 GOP wave.
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Virginia, ordered by year.Since its admission to statehood in 1788, Virginia has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the election of 1864 during the American Civil War, when the state had seceded to join the Confederacy, and the election of 1868, when the state was undergoing Reconstruction.
As a blue state with Republican power over elections, Virginia draws GOP attention Erin Mansfield, Sarah D. Wire and Lyra Bordelon, USA TODAY Updated November 2, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Most of Virginia’s races are considered safely red or blue. However, the Cook Political Report says Virginia’s 2nd and 7th District House races are “toss-ups” and recent polls suggest the ...
Prior to the election, most news organizations considered this a state Biden would win, or a likely blue state. On the day of the election, Biden won Virginia with 54.11% of the vote, and by a margin of 10.1%, the best performance for a Democratic presidential candidate since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. [3]
Red-blue party division, explained ... The Senate, or upper chamber, has 100 seats — two per state. Of these, 34 are up for election in 2024. ... Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Sen. Joe ...
In August 2024, Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order removing 6,303 voters suspected of being non-citizens from Virginia's voter rolls. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In October 2024, the Department of Justice sued the Virginia Board of Elections and Virginia commissioner of elections over the voter purge, accusing that it violated the ...