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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 Virginia State Board of Elections oversees the execution of elections under state law. In a 2020 study, Virginia was ranked as the 12th easiest state for citizens to vote in. [ 1 ] Voters do not register by party in Virginia, and Virginia conducts open primaries where any voter may cast a ballot for either party.
Election-reporting websites run software to aggregate and display results. These have had programming errors which showed erroneous partial results during the evening, [152] and the wrong winner. [153] Local officials can change results. A Virginia official was charged with changing results by herself in the state's VERIS system.
Virginia is one of just a handful of states that holds major elections in off years, so while special elections to replace state Sens. John McGuire, R-Goochland, and Suhas Subramanyam, D-Loudoun ...
Going into Tuesday’s elections, Democrats held a narrow 22-17 majority in the state’s Senate. The Democratic win in the state’s upper chamber is seen as an affirmation of the party’s ...
Republican Luther Cifers defeated Democrat Jack Trammell in the special election for the state Senate’s 10th District on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ, maintaining Republicans’ grip ...
The 2023 Virginia elections took place on November 7, 2023. All 40 seats of the Virginia Senate and 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates were up for election, as are many local offices. Special elections also will take place during the year.
The Senate of Virginia has its own coat of arms designed and granted by the College of Arms in England. [14] [15] The coat of arms also makes up the official seal of the Virginia Senate. It bears no resemblance to the Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia, which is the seal of the state as a whole.