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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.
The following is a table of United States presidential election results by state. They are indirect elections in which voters in each state cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College who pledge to vote for a specific political party's nominee for president. Bold italic text indicates the winner of the election
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 ...
Votes are being counted in the 2024 U.S. presidential election and some are looking to past races to get a sense of how the race could play out.. The 2016 election was the first general election ...
This was the first election since 1988 that a presidential candidate won Virginia by double digits (George H. W. Bush having carried the state by 20.5% in his first run), and the first election in which any presidential candidate received over 2 million votes in Virginia. As fellow Southern state Georgia tilted towards Biden, he became the ...
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 ...
I’m running for Delegate to represent Virginia’s 82nd District!” Pope wrote on X Tuesday. State senators Lashrecse Aird, D-Petersburg, and Aaron Rouse, D-Virginia Beach, have already ...
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. Then, in the 2008 and 2012 elections, the state voted for the Democratic Party. The same trend continued in the 2016 presidential elections. [13] Clinton had several advantages in ...