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Biden won Henrico County, Loudoun County, Prince William County, and Fairfax County with 63.7%, 61.5%, 63.6%, and 69.9%, respectively; all four were former suburban bastions of the Republican Party in Virginia, the first outside Richmond and the others in Northern Virginia. All four had voted Republican in every election from 1968 through 2000.
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.
The 2020 Virginia Beach mayoral election took place on November 3, 2020, to elect the mayor of Virginia Beach. Incumbent Republican Mayor Bobby Dyer defeated Democrat Jody Wagner , who was the former Virginia Secretary of Finance and Virginia State Treasurer , with 51.64% of the vote.
This was the first election since 1976 in which Virginia did not vote in the same way as neighboring North Carolina, and the first election ever in which Virginia voted Democratic while North Carolina voted Republican. Virginia was the only state that backed Obama twice that didn't back Bill Clinton in either of his runs for president in 1992 ...
Barack Obama campaigns in Virginia Beach. In his 2008 win, Virginia voted for a Democrat for the first time in ten Presidential elections. In 1989, Doug Wilder was the first African-American elected governor of a U.S. state. Despite Virginia's support of Republican presidential candidates and reputation as a conservative state, voters elected ...
Virginia joined the Union in June 1788 and has participated in all elections from 1789 onwards, except 1864 and 1868 (due to its secession from the US due to the American Civil War). Since 1900, Virginia voted Democratic 54.17% of the time and Republican 45.83% of the time. From 1968 to 2004, Virginia voted for the Republican Party candidate.
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 at Ballotpedia "Election Guides: Virginia", Spreadthevote.org, archived from the original on October 4, 2020. (Guidance to help voters get to the polls; addresses transport, childcare, work, information challenges) "Voting in Virginia", Voting Information by State, Rock the Vote. ("Deadlines, dates, requirements, registration options ...