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As the 2024 election approaches, here's what to know about ballot tracking, vote-by-mail deadlines, and finding your polling site in Virginia.
Virginia becomes the first state to allow in-person early voting in the 2024 election cycle, learn if your home state has absentee ballots available and if there are restrictions.
The first state in the country to begin voting was Alabama, which sent absentee ballots to eligible voters back on Sept. 11, but the state does not have an option for in-person early voting.
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]
Elections in Virginia are authorized under Article I of the Virginia State Constitution, sections 5–6, and Article V which establishes elections for the state-level officers, cabinet, and legislature. Article VII section 4 establishes the election of county-level officers.
Before the election, most news organizations considered Virginia a likely win for Harris. On election day, Harris won Virginia with 51.83% of the vote, carrying the state by a margin of 5.78%, similar to the 2016 results. This was the first presidential election in which both major party candidates received more than 2 million votes in Virginia.
Virginia’s first two weeks of voting by mail and early in-person voting suggest that the gap between the early vote in Republican and Democratic counties might be smaller this year compared with ...
The predecessor to ELECT, the Virginia State Board of Elections (SBE), was founded in 1946 as a nonpolitical agency to ensure fairness and accuracy in the commonwealth's elections. The SBE promoted proper administration of election laws and voter registration. [3] In 2014, this process was further expanded with the creation of ELECT.