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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.
Before the election, most news organizations considered Virginia a likely win for Harris. On election day, Harris won Virginia with 51.82% of the vote, carrying the state by a margin of 5.76%, 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.
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]
There are several storylines of national significance in today’s Virginia primary. But when it comes to the presidential race this fall, the consensus view has been that the Old Dominion will be ...
(The Center Square) — As President-elect Donald Trump is making cabinet picks and Congress orients its new members, Virginia is gearing up for its next elections. One week after election day ...
Barack Obama at a campaign rally in Manassas with former governors and current U.S. senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner. The politics of Virginia have followed major historical events and demographic changes in the commonwealth. In the 21st century, the northern region has become more liberal in attitudes and voting, constituting a reliable ...
The truth is the Decision Desk cannot know until election night which scenario will unfold, regardless of how carefully we have analyzed the polls, early vote, and other election-related data.
Virginia voted for Republicans in nearly every presidential election from 1952 to 2004 except for the Democratic landslide in President Johnson's election in 1964. This former streak started when Richard Nixon began the Southern Strategy, and is the longest among the former Confederate States.