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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.
Virginia voted for Democrat Barack Obama in 2008, after backing Republican candidates for the previous ten presidential elections. [16] Virginia may be considered a "swing state" for future presidential elections. [17] Its margin for Obama of 6.3% made it a close indicator of the national vote (a 7.2% Obama margin).
Voters line up to cast their ballots at the Stamford Government Center on the first day of early voting on Oct. 21, 2024, in Stamford, Connecticut. ... Still, over 100 million people voted early ...
For many years, voter turnout was reported as a percentage; the numerator being the total votes cast, or the votes cast for the highest office, and the denominator being the Voting Age Population (VAP), the Census Bureau's estimate of the number of persons 18 years old and older resident in the United States.
An estimated 82 million Americans – more than half of the 2020 electorate – have already voted early, according to the Associated Press. Here’s what you need to know about timings on ...
As states have started to open up early voting for the Nov. 3 election, a record breaking figure of over 17 million American have already cast their ballot. Over 17 Million Americans Have Already ...
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.
In this election, Virginia voted 5.6% more Democratic than the nation as a whole. Although Virginia was considered a reliably Republican state at the presidential level from 1952 to 2004 (having only gone to the Democrats once during that period, in Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 landslide), it has not voted Republican in a presidential election ...