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2024 United States presidential election in Virginia
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The 2024 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Virginia voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Virginia has 13 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat.
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. Trump is the first Republican to win the popular vote without Virginia since 1924. This is also the first election since 2000 where Virginia voted for the popular vote loser.
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Primary elections
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Democratic primary
The Virginia Democratic primary was held on Super Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Incumbent president Joe Biden won the state and all 11 of its congressional districts, securing 99 pledged delegates. Activist Marianne Williamson garnered 8% of the vote total, which was her second-best performance on Super Tuesday after Oklahoma.

Biden
- 70–80%
- 80–90%
- >90%
Republican primary
The Virginia Republican primary was held on Super Tuesday, March 5, 2024. Former president Donald Trump defeated former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, attaining 42 pledged delegates to the Republican National Convention in July. Trump performed best in southwest Virginia, while Haley's strength lay in Charlottesville, Albemarle County, the urban areas of Richmond and the suburbs surrounding Washington, D.C.

Trump
- 40–50%
- 50–60%
- 60–70%
- 70–80%
- 80–90%
- >90%
Haley
- 50–60%
- 60–70%
- 70–80%
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General election
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Voting law changes
In August 2024, Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order removing 6,303 voters suspected of being non-citizens from Virginia's voter rolls.[3][4] In October 2024, the Department of Justice sued the Virginia Board of Elections and Virginia commissioner of elections over the voter purge, accusing that it violated the National Voter Registration Act.[5][6] The suit also found a number of alleged non-citizens purged were actually citizens.[6][7] District judge Patricia Tolliver Giles ruled that the removal was illegal, ordering the state to stop purging voter rolls and to restore the voter registration of more than 1,600 voters who had been removed.[8][7] The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals then upheld the order.[9][10] The administration filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court, which sided with Virginia in a 6–3 decision, allowing the state to continue purging voter rolls.[11][10]
Predictions
Polling
Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump
Aggregate polls
Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump vs Cornel West vs. Jill Stein vs. Chase Oliver
Hypothetical polling with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump vs Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Cornel West vs. Jill Stein vs. Chase Oliver
Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump vs Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Hypothetical polling with Joe Biden and Donald Trump
Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump
Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Cornel West vs. Jill Stein
Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump vs. Cornel West
Hypothetical polling with other candidates
Joe Biden vs. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vs. Donald Trump
Joe Biden vs. Nikki Haley
Joe Biden vs. Ron DeSantis
Joe Biden vs. Glenn Youngkin
Results


By city and county
Counties and independent city that flipped from Democratic to Republican
- Lynchburg (independent city)
- Prince Edward (largest municipality: Farmville)
- Surry (largest municipality: Claremont)
By congressional district
Harris won six of 11 congressional districts.[71]
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Analysis
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Despite losing, Trump made notable gains across much of the Commonwealth, particularly in the Northern and Southside regions of Virginia.[72] Despite losing Northern Virginia, Trump made significant gains in Loudoun County, Virginia (21% Asian and 14% Hispanic), Fairfax County, Virginia (20% Asian and 17% Hispanic), and Prince William County, Virginia (10% Asian and 25% Hispanic), which have significant Asian and Hispanic populations. Northern Virginia as a whole swung 8% rightward.[73]
Trump reclaimed Lynchburg City, flipped Prince Edward County, which had not voted Republican in a presidential election since 2000, and also flipped Surry County, which last supported a Republican presidential candidate in 1972. Harris, by contrast, did not flip any counties or independent cities in Virginia.
Harris won the state by 5.78%, which was worse than Biden's margin, but it slightly improved from Hillary Clinton's 5.32% margin. Nevertheless, Trump became the first ever Republican to win the White House without carrying the city of Virginia Beach since it became an independent city in 1952 as well as the first to do so without carrying Chesterfield or Stafford Counties since Calvin Coolidge in 1924, and the first to do so without carrying James City County or the city of Chesapeake since Richard Nixon in 1968. Trump was the first president to win two terms without ever carrying Virginia since Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and the first Republican to do so since William McKinley in 1896 and 1900. This is the first election since 1996 that Virginia backed the loser of both the electoral vote and the overall popular vote.
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Notes
- Poll sponsored by American Thinker
- Poll sponsored by The Washington Post & the Schar School of Policy and Government
- Poll sponsored by the Center for Leadership and Media Studies at the University of Mary Washington
- Poll sponsored by Trump's campaign
- Poll conducted for Kennedy's campaign
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References
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