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The following table indicates party affiliation in the Commonwealth of Virginia for the individual offices of: Governor; Lieutenant Governor; Attorney General; It also indicates the historical composition of the collective: Senate; House of Delegates; State delegation to the United States Senate (individually)
Virginia was the only such state to vote for Gerald Ford over Jimmy Carter in 1976. Since 2008, Virginia has voted for Democrats in presidential elections, including Barack Obama; in 2016 and 2024, Virginia was the only former Confederate state to vote for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris over Donald Trump.
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Political party strength in U.S. states is the level of representation of the various political parties in the United States in each statewide elective office providing legislators to the state and to the U.S. Congress and electing the executives at the state (U.S. state governor) and national (U.S. President) level.
The political subdivisions of Virginia are the areas into which the state is divided for political and administrative purposes. In Virginia, the political subdivisions have only the legal powers specifically granted to them by the General Assembly and set forth under the Code of Virginia. Some are local governments; others are not. However, all ...
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Up until the 1970s, Virginia was a racially divided one-party state dominated by the Byrd Organization. [346] They sought to stymie the political power of Northern Virginia, perpetuate segregation, and successfully restricted voter registration such that between 1905 and 1948 voter turnout was regularly below ten percent.
In January 2015 Republican state senator Jill Holtzman Vogel of Winchester and Democratic state senator Louise Lucas of Portsmouth sponsored a Senate Joint Resolution to establish additional criteria for the Virginia Redistricting Commission of four identified members of political parties, and three other independent public officials. The ...