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However, Democrat Barack Obama carried Virginia's 13 electoral votes in both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. [13] In the 2010 elections, Republicans won three United States House of Representatives seats from the Democrats. Of the state's eleven seats in the House of Representatives, Democrats hold six and Republicans hold five. The ...
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.
In this election, Virginia voted 5.6% more Democratic than the nation as a whole. Although Virginia was considered a reliably Republican state at the presidential level from 1952 to 2004 (having only gone to the Democrats once during that period, in Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 landslide), it has not voted Republican in a presidential election ...
Democrat Eugene Vindman is set to represent Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, succeeding Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who stepped down to pursue a bid for governor.
The Virginia Democratic primary was held on Super Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Incumbent president Joe Biden won the state and all 11 of its congressional districts , securing 99 pledged delegates. Activist Marianne Williamson garnered 8% of the vote total, which was her second-best performance on Super Tuesday after Oklahoma .
Virginia’s Democratic delegates are headed to Chicago next week to back Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz at the Democratic National Convention, after ...
Virginia voted for Democrat Barack Obama in 2008, after backing Republican candidates for the previous ten presidential elections. [16] Virginia may be considered a "swing state" for future presidential elections. [17] Its margin for Obama of 6.3% made it a close indicator of the national vote (a 7.2% Obama margin).
Spanberger, a prominent moderate Democratic, plans to run for Governor in 2025. Spanberger was the first Democrat elected to represent the district, once considered a Republican stronghold, since ...