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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 ...
The 2024 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Virginia voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote.
The members of the 2024 Electoral College met on December 17, 2024, the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday of December as per the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022. [2] Candidates and their four electors on a ballot in Ada County, Idaho.
The Electoral College was officially selected as the means of electing president towards the end of the Constitutional Convention, due to pressure from slave states wanting to increase their voting power, since they could count slaves as 3/5 of a person when allocating electors, and by small states who increased their power given the minimum of ...
The 1800 United States presidential election in Virginia was held between October 31 – December 3, 1800. Virginia voters chose 21 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College , who voted for President and Vice President .
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.
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 1804 United States presidential election in Virginia took place between November 2 and December 5, 1804, as part of the 1804 United States presidential election. Virginia voters chose 25 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College , who voted for President and Vice President .