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The 2023 Virginia Senate election was held on Tuesday, November 7, 2023, concurrently with elections for the Virginia House of Delegates, to elect senators to all 40 seats in the Senate of Virginia for the 163rd and 164th Virginia Assembly.
The 2024 United States Senate election in Virginia was held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the Commonwealth of Virginia. Democratic incumbent Tim Kaine won re-election to a third term, defeating Republican former U.S. Navy captain Hung Cao. [1] [2] Primary elections took place on June 18, 2024. [3]
Virginia's governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general are elected at large every four years. State senators and members of the House of Delegates are elected in single-member districts. County-level officials are elected by county. Virginia has 100 seats in its House of Delegates, and 40 seats in its Senate.
Virginia's state legislature is one of just two with split representation. Like the U.S. Congress, Democrats hold the Senate; the GOP has the House.
The lieutenant governor presides daily over the Virginia Senate. In the lieutenant governor's absence, the president pro tempore presides, usually a powerful member of the majority party. The Senate is equal with the House of Delegates, the lower chamber of the legislature, except that taxation bills must originate in the House, similar to the ...
All 40 seats of the Senate of Virginia and 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates were up for re-election, as were many local offices. As of June 30, 2018, incumbents in both parties were out-raising their challengers, and there was a brisk pace of fundraising among Northern Virginia incumbents.
2011 Virginia Senate election, District 37 [5]; Primary election Party Candidate Votes % Republican: Jason Flanary : 3,131 : 54.9 : Republican: Stephen Hunt 2,568 45.1 Total votes
It would be many more months before investigators – and the children’s desperate family members – knew what had happened to the two siblings. Remains found buried in Daybell’s backyard