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Whereas the national popular vote swung 1.77% Republican from the previous election, Virginia swung 1.44% Democratic. [2] However, due to a higher third-party vote, Clinton's percentage was lower than Obama's in both 2008 and 2012 (although her raw vote total slightly improved from Obama in 2012).
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.
The appointment of electors is a matter for each state's legislature to determine; in 1872 and in every presidential election since 1880, all states have used a popular vote to do so. The 1824 election was the first in which the popular vote was first fully recorded and reported.
Votes are being counted in the 2024 U.S. presidential election and some are looking to past races to get a sense of how the race could play out.. The 2016 election was the first general election ...
All eyes are on a handful of battlegrounds where polls have closed but the presidential contest is either too close or too close to call. 2016 Election: Vote results, polls and more in battle for ...
The 2016 election was the fifth and most recent presidential election in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Six states plus a portion of Maine that Obama won in 2012 switched to Trump (Electoral College votes in parentheses): Florida (29), Pennsylvania (20), Ohio (18), Michigan (16), Wisconsin (10), Iowa (6), and ...
American history was changed forever in November 2016 when Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton went head-to-head in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Trump took 30 states as the Republican ...
Whereas the national popular vote swung 1.9% Republican from the previous election, Virginia swung 1.37% Democratic. [1] Virginia was among the eleven states in which Hillary Clinton outperformed Barack Obama's margin in 2012. [1] Trump became the first Republican candidate since Calvin Coolidge in 1924 to win the White House without carrying ...