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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.
On election day, Harris won Virginia with 51.83% of the vote, carrying the state by a margin of 5.78%, similar to the 2016 results. This was the first presidential election in which both major party candidates received more than 2 million votes in Virginia. Trump is the first Republican to win the popular vote without Virginia since 1924.
Electoral vote 13: 0 Popular vote 2,413,568: 1,962,430 Percentage ... Virginia has 13 electoral votes in the Electoral College. [2] Prior to the election, most news ...
The post features a photo of the vote totals in the Virginia race. The photo shows President-Elect Donald Trump ahead of Harris at 49.5% (or 1,227,559 votes) compared to her 48.7% (or 1,207,424 ...
Since 1900, Virginia voted Democratic 54.17% of the time and Republican 45.83% of the time. From 1968 to 2004, Virginia voted for the Republican Party candidate. Then, in the 2008 and 2012 elections, the state voted for the Democratic Party. The same trend continued in the 2016 presidential elections. [13] Clinton had several advantages in ...
"The "free" state of Pennsylvania had 10% more free persons than Virginia but got 20% fewer electoral votes." [103] Pennsylvania split eight to seven for Jefferson, favoring Jefferson with a majority of 53% in a state with 0.1% slave population.
In 2009, Governor Tim Kaine proposed to authorize no-excuse early voting in Virginia elections, noting that 26 other states allow it. [6] On January 26, 2009, the bill passed the Democratic-controlled Senate. [7] However, the Republican-controlled House of delegates killed the proposal.
Technically the voters of Virginia cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Virginia is allocated 13 electors because it has 11 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 13 electors, who pledge to vote for their ...