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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.
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 ...
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. Trump is the first Republican to win the popular vote without Virginia since 1924.
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 ‡ indicates the winner lost the popular vote
The number of electoral votes each state gets can change after the census every 10 years. It is tied to the number of House members plus two senators each state has in Congress.
† Jackson received only 3 of Louisiana's 5 electoral votes in the 1824 election. ‡ Jackson received only 1 of Maine's 9 electoral votes in the 1828 election. ↑ Jackson received 1 of New York's 36 electoral votes in 1824 and 20 of 26 in 1828. ↓ Jackson received 7 of Maryland's 11 electoral votes in 1824 and 5 of 11 in 1828.
Virginia voters chose 21 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President. Democratic-Republican Vice President Thomas Jefferson carried the state by taking all 21 electoral votes and over 77.2% of the popular votes.
Trump needed to win 270 electoral votes in order to set him on the official path to be sworn into the Oval Office, which he did Tuesday afternoon, according to CNN and The Washington Post.