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The 2011 Virginia state elections took place on November 8, 2011. All 140 seats in the Virginia General Assembly were up for re-election, as were many local offices.
The Virginia House of Delegates election of 2011 was held on Tuesday, November 8. Results. Overview. 2] ↓ 67 32 1 Republican: Democratic: Parties Candidates
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 was one of the first states with a poll tax. In the modern era, 20 percent of the state's African-American residents who are old enough to vote are disenfranchised by felon voting laws. Compare with 2008 Winner: Obama
Democrats cite past election cycles showing tight polling in Virginia at this point in the campaign. A Quinnipiac University poll released in July 2012 showed Obama tied with then-Republican ...
A new poll finds likely Virginia voters almost evenly split on which party they’d like in charge of the General Assembly, but more than half agree abortion is a top issue of concern in the ...
Republicans flipped control of the Virginia Senate, thereby establishing a trifecta. In Mississippi, Republicans won the state House for the first time since 1876. After having gained control of the Mississippi Senate in February 2011 in the year due to party switching, [3] Republicans retained control of the chamber in the November election ...
The Fall Commonwealth Poll, from the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University, was conducted Aug. 26-Sept. 6. Poll directors say they plan to ...