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The following table indicates party affiliation in the Commonwealth of Virginia for the individual offices of: Governor; Lieutenant Governor; Attorney General; It also indicates the historical composition of the collective: Senate; House of Delegates; State delegation to the United States Senate (individually)
The 161st Virginia General Assembly, consisting of members who were elected in both the House election and Senate election in 2019, convened on January 8, 2020. It was the first time Democrats held both houses of the General Assembly and the governorship since the 147th General Assembly in 1993.
The 162nd Virginia General Assembly, consisting of members who were elected in both the House election in 2021 and the Senate election in 2019, convened on January 12, 2022. The legislature is the first since the 156th Assembly ended in 2012 to be of divided party control, with Republicans again controlling the House of Delegates and Democrats ...
Majority party Minority party Leader Dick Saslaw (retired) Tommy Norment (retired) Party Democratic: Republican: Leader since January 10, 1996 January 9, 2008 Leader's seat 35th–Springfield: 26th [b] –Williamsburg: Last election 21: 19 Seats before 22: 17 Seats won 21: 19 Seat change 1 2 Popular vote 1,229,331 [2] 1,193,583 Percentage 49.8% ...
However, this is the first state-level election in Virginia following the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision the previous year, which ruled that abortion is not a constitutional right in the United States. Youngkin attempted to change Republican messaging on abortion by proposing a 15-week abortion "limit ...
In New York State where fusion voting is practiced, Irish Americans were instrumental in the founding of the Conservative party in opposition to Nelson Rockefeller and other liberal Republicans who dominated the state GOP during the 1960s and 70s. [352]
The 2021 Virginia House of Delegates election for the 162nd Virginia General Assembly were held on November 2, 2021, to coincide with biennial elections in the U.S. state of Virginia. All 100 Delegates are elected to two-year terms in single-member constituencies. Primary elections took place on June 8. [2]
The Republican Party held the majority until 2019, when the Democratic Party won a majority of the seats, thus regaining control of the House of Delegates. The majority was sworn in on January 8, 2020, after which Eileen Filler-Corn (D-Fairfax) was elected as the first female and Jewish Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates. [5]