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See live updates of Virginia election results from the 2024 election, including Senate and House races, state elections and ballot initiatives.
In the race for tax commissioner, also on Democratic ballots Tuesday, J.P. Lemay, a project manager for the Athens-Clarke County Department of Leisure Services, won the post over local insurance ...
Claudia Butts and Mary P. Bagby were the top two vote-getters in the Primary election for the District 2 Clarke County Board of Education seat.
Virginia joined the Union in June 1788 and has participated in all elections from 1789 onwards, except 1864 and 1868 (due to its secession from the US due to the American Civil War). 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.
The first settlement of the Virginia Colony in the future Clarke County was in 1736 by Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron who built a home, Greenway Court, on part of his 5 million acres (20,000 km 2) property, near what is now the village of White Post. White Post was named for the large signpost pointing the way to Lord Fairfax's home.
Biden won Henrico County, Loudoun County, Prince William County, and Fairfax County with 63.7%, 61.5%, 63.6%, and 69.9%, respectively; all four were former suburban bastions of the Republican Party in Virginia, the first outside Richmond and the others in Northern Virginia. All four had voted Republican in every election from 1968 through 2000.
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These areas combined are more Democratic than the former Richmond suburbs and rural central Virginia counties which made up the old 7th district. [10] The last major change district was the 10th district, which removed Frederick County, Winchester City, Clarke County, and western parts of Fairfax County.