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The 2023 Virginia House of Delegates election took place on November 7, 2023, concurrently with elections for the Virginia Senate, to elect members of the 163rd Virginia General Assembly. All 100 delegates were elected to two-year terms from single-member districts .
Virginia's Eastern Shore is also located within the district. The incumbent is Republican Jen Kiggans, who flipped the district and was elected to a first term with 52% of the vote in 2022. [2] she won re-election defeated Democrat Missy Cotter Smasal by a vote of 201,023 (51%) to 184,174 (47%). [19]
A special election was held on February 21, 2023 to fill Virginia's 4th congressional district for the remainder of Democrat Donald McEachin's term, who died on November 28, 2022, of colorectal cancer. [1] The Democratic nominee Jennifer McClellan won the special election. [2]
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.
The Virginia State Board of Elections (SBE) was created in 1946 as a nonpolitical agency responsible for ensuring uniformity, fairness, accuracy and purity in all elections in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The SBE promotes the proper administration of election laws, campaign finance disclosure compliance, and voter registration processes in the ...
Virginia's Eastern Shore is also located within the district. The incumbent was Democrat Elaine Luria, who was re-elected with 51.6% of the vote in 2020. Despite her home in Norfolk no longer being in the district, Luria ran for re-election in this seat. On November 8, 2022, State Senator Jen Kiggans won the election to the district, unseating ...
Prior to the election, most news organizations considered this a state Biden would win, or a likely blue state. On the day of the election, Biden won Virginia with 54.11% of the vote, and by a margin of 10.1%, the best performance for a Democratic presidential candidate since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. [3]
Following Kannan Srinivasan's victory in the Democratic primary special election for Virginia's 32nd Senate district, a special election is scheduled to be held on January 7, 2025 to replace his seat for Virginia's 26th House of Delegates district. A Republican primary election was held on November 18, 2024. [14]