VIRGINIA 13 Electoral Votes 
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Population 
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Virginia State Board of Elections)
Total Resident Population, July 1, 2016 est.
8,411,808
Total Registration, Nov. 2016 (active)
5,605,711 >

Virginia has: 95 counties and 38 independent cities.
Largest counties: Fairfax, Virginia Beach city, Prince William, Loudon, Chesterfield, Henrico.
Largest cities: Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Arlington CDP, Richmond.

Government
Governor: Terry McAuliffe (D) elected in 2013.
State Legislature: Virginia General Assembly
Local: Counties, Municipal  NACO
U.S. House: 8R, 3D - 1. R.Wittman (R) | 2. S.Rigell (R) | 3. R.Scott (D) | 4. R.Forbes (R) | 5. R.Hurt (R) | 6. R.Goodlatte (R) | 7. D.Brat (R) | 8. D.Beyer (D) | 9. M.Griffith (R) | 10. B.Comstock (R) | 11. G.Connolly (D).  >
U.S. Senate: Mark Warner (D) re-elected in 2014, Tim Kaine (D) elected in 2012.
2016
U.S. House: In Oct. 2014 a U.S. District Court ruled Virginia's 2012 congressional redistricting map was unconstitutional, and in Jan. 2016 a three-judge panel set forth new maps that redrew some of the districts.  Republican Members appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which upheld the new maps in a May 23 ruling. 
- In VA-2 (Virginia Beach), Rep Scott Rigell (R) is retiring after three terms.  Del. Scott Taylor (R) defeated Shaun Brown (D), an economist, management consultant and small businessperson, by 61.33% to 38.46% with Dustin Willow (I) garnering a few hundred votes.
- In VA-5
(the largest District in Virginia, including all or part of 21 counties, Charlottesville, Danville), Rep. Robert Hurt (R) is retiring after three terms.  State Sen. Tom Garrett (R) defeated Albemarle County Board Chair Jane Dittmar (D) by 58.24% to 41.58%.
- In VA-4 (Chesapeake and Southeast VA) Rep. Randy Forbes (R) switched to run in the open VA-2 (Virginia Beach) due to the new redistricting , but lost the June 14 primary.  State Sen. Donald McEachin (D) defeated Henrico County Sheriff Mike Wade (R) by 57.73% to 42.04%.
- Democrats targeted VA-10 (Northern VA district that includes Manassas and McLean).  This was the closest of Virginia's 11 congressional races.  Although Clinton carried the district by 51.57% to 41.75%, freshman Rep. Barbara Comstock (R) defeated real estate developer and manager LuAnn Bennett (D) by 210,791 (52.69%) to 187,712 (46.92%).

Ballot Measures: Voters decided two proposed constitutional amendments.  Voters defeated Question One, which would have put right to work into the state constitution, and approved Question Two, establishing "property tax exemptions for spouses of certain emergency services providers."
Note:
If Sen. Tim Kaine (D) had been elected Vice President as most people expected, Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) would have appointed someone to fill the seat until a special election was held coinciding with the 2017 elections.

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The Old Dominion State
General Election -- Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Voting Eligible Population*: 6,061,032.
VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 65.7%.


Voter Registration Deadline: Oct. 17, 2016
*extended to Oct. 21 by court order following crash of Virginia's online voter registration system (+).
In-Person Absentee Voting: starts Sept. 23, 2016
...criteria >

Official Results >

 
+Clinton/Kaine (Dem.)
1,981,473
(49.73)
Trump/Pence (Rep.)
1,769,443
(44.41)
Johnson/Weld (Lib.)
118,274
(2.97)
Stein/Baraka (Grn.)
27,638
(0.69)
McMullin/Johnson (Ind.)
54,054
(1.35)
all others
33,749
(0.84)
Total........3,984,631


Overview: Virginia was a battleground state, but Hillary Clinton's selection of Sen. Tim Kaine as her running mate seemed to tip the balance in favor of the Democratic ticket.  In June the Clinton campaign had started out with Virginia as one of eight states where it was running TV advertising, but it stopped running ads there in July.  On Oct. 10 Trump state chairman Corey Stewart was fired.  The Trump campaign nonetheless continued its efforts in Virginia, including running TV ads (+) and visits by the candidates and surrogates.
    The Clinton-Kaine ticket won with plurality of 212,030 votes (5.32 percentage points).  Clinton carried 40 counties and independent cities to 93 for Trump.  Trump won CDs 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9 while Clinton carried CDs 3, 4, 8, 10 and 11.
General Election Visits
Clinton  |  Trump
BALLOT [PDF]
[State Primary: June 14, 2016]
Presidential Preference Primary -- Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Registration as of March 1, 2016: 5,270,750. +
Democrats
109 Delegates: 62 District, 21 At-Large, 12 PLEO, 14 Unpledged.

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Republicans
49 Delegates: 3 RNC; 13 At-Large; 33 by CD (3 x 11).

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General Election Winners in Virginia, 1992-2012
1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012
Bush
44.96%
Dole
47.10%
Bush
52.47%
Bush
53.68%
Obama
52.62%
Obama
51.15%
  and the details...

General Election -- Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Voting Eligible Population*: 5,555,415.
VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 67.0%.


Voter Registration Deadline: October 15, 2012
In-Person Absentee Voting: September 21-November 3, 2012


In person: 3,423,717
In person curbside: 15,071
Absentee: 447,907
Provisional: 10,151
Total: 3,896,846

Official Results >

 
+Obama/Biden (Dem.)
1,971,820
(51.15)
Romney/Ryan (Rep.)
1,822,522
(47.28)
Johnson/Gray (Ind.)
31,216
(0.80)
Goode/Clymer (Const.)
13,058
(0.33)
Stein/Honkala (Grn.) 8,627
(0.22)
w/in
7,246

Total........3,854,489

total voted: 3,896,846
2012 Overview
Virginia was a top-tier battleground state.  Although Republicans saw encouraging signs in the outcomes of the 2009 and 2010 elections, the Obama-Biden ticket won the Commonwealth with a plurality of 149,298 votes (3.87 percentage points), carrying 35 counties and independent cities (18 and 27) to 89 (77 and 12) for Romney-Ryan.  Looking at the results by CD, Romney won in CDs 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10, while Obama carried 2, 3, 8 and 11.
General Election Details
Obama  |  Romney
BALLOT [PDF]

General Election -- Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Voting Eligible Population*: 5,500,265.
VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 67.7%.




Last day for voter registration: Oct. 6, 2008.

Voter registration:
4,912,971 (active).

506,672 absentee ballots cast (13.5% of total vote)
Official Results >


+Obama/Biden (Dem.)
1,959,532 (52.62)
McCain/Palin (Rep.)
1,725,005 (46.33)
Nader/Gonzalez (Ind.)
11,483
(0.30)
Barr/Root (Lib.)
11,067
(0.29)
Baldwin/Castle (IndGrn)
7,474
(0.20)
w/in
6,355
(0.17)
McKinney/Clemente (Grn.)
2,344
(0.06)
Total........3,723,260


2008 Overview
Virginia was a full-fledged battleground state.  The Obama-Biden ticket won with a plurality of 234,527 votes (6.29 percentage points), making Obama the first Democratic presidential candidate to prevail in the Commonwealth since 1964 (when LBJ won all but six states).  Obama carried 6 congressional districts to 5 for McCain. 
General Election Details
Obama/Allies  |  McCain/Allies  |  Nader

General Election -- Tuesday, November 2, 2004
Voting Eligible Population*: 5,277,156.
VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 60.6%.




Voting in person: 3,001,097
Voting absentee: 222,059 (6.9%)
Total voters:
3,223,156

Voter registration: 4,517,980.
Official Results >


+Bush/Cheney (Rep.)
1,716,959 (53.68)
Kerry/Edwards (Rep.) 1,454,742 (45.48)
Badnarik/Campagna (Lib.) 11,032 (0.34)
Peroutka/Baldwin (Const.) 10,161 (0.32)
Write Ins 5,473 (0.17)
Total........3,198,367  
Write Ins included 2,521 votes for individuals who filed by Oct. 23 the Joint Declaration of Intent: Brown/Herbert 23; Cobb 104; Nader 2,393; J.Spence 1.
2004 Overview
Democrats put some resources into Virginia but saw no improvement in the outcome as Bush-Cheney amassed a plurality of 262,217 votes (8.20 percentage points).  In terms of localities Bush won 102 (82 counties and 20 cities) and Kerry won 32 (13 counties and 19 cities).  Bush prevailed in nine congressional districts, while Kerry won only the 3rd and 8th CDs.
General Election Details

General Election -- Tuesday, November 7, 2000
Voting Eligible Population*5,069,265.
VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 54.0%.


2,789,808 total votes were cast for president -- 2,739,447 were counted.  50,361 (1.8%) were under or overvotes.

Voter registration:
3,770,273 active.
Official Results >


+Bush/Cheney (Rep.)
 1,437,490
(52.47)
Gore/Lieberman (Dem.)
 1,217,290
(44.44)
Browne/Olivier (Lib.)
15,198
(0.55)
Buchanan-Foster (Ref.)
5,455
(0.20)
Phillips-Frazier (Const.)
 1,809
(0.07)
Nader-LaDuke (Grn.)
59,398
(2.17)
Write-Ins
 2,807
(0.10)
Total........2,739,447

2000 Overview
A Democrat has not won Virginia in the presidential race since LBJ carried the state in 1964.  That held true in 2000 as Bush-Cheney bested Gore-Lieberman with a plurality of 220,200 votes (8.03 percentage points).  Bush won in eight of the state's congressional districts, while Gore won in three (3rd, 8th and 11th). 

Notes: For an individual other than the nominees of the Democratic and Republican parties to appear on the general election ballot as a candidate for president he or she must have submitted signatures of not less than 10,000 qualified voters in Virginia, including at least 400 qualified voters from each of Virginia's 11 congressional districts, to the State Board of Elections no later than noon August 25, 2000.

1992 and 1996 General Elections
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Bush (Rep.)..........1,150,517 (44.96)
Clinton (Dem.).......1,038,650 (40.59)
Perot (Ind.)..............348,639
 (13.62)
Others (3)..................20,859
(0.82)
Total........2,558,665

1996
Dole (Rep.)...........1,138,350 (47.10)
Clinton (Dem.).......1,091,060 (45.15)
Perot (Ref.)..............159,861
 (6.62)
Others (3).................27,371
(1.14)
Total........2,416,642