Six months later, I have the 1936 presidential election by precinct in Virginia! Roosevelt won Virginia by more than any presidential candidate since the Civil War. Opposition was limited, coming only from parts of the Blue Ridge and German pockets in the Shenandoah Valley.

Richmond has come a long way

The 1988 presidential election saw George Bush Sr. deliver a landslide victory against MA gov. Michael Dukakis—but not in his home state, where he eked out an 8 point win. This is the first time this election has been mapped in detail. Lots more maps/analysis below! 1/a lot

Abigail Spanberger won the Virginia gubernatorial race by 15%, winning 8/11 congressional districts.

2025 Gov was the first statewide election since 2005 in which Petersburg was not the top Democratic locality in Virginia. It was Charlottesville at D+77.5 this time. In the race for Attorney General in 2005, Creigh Deeds won Covington 64 pts, Petersburg by 57.

I have to say, I was cooking

Post VA GOV map or wait for provisionals and absentee ballots

Tonight @SpanbergerForVA will win by the largest margin for a Democrat since Albertis Harrison won 63.9% in 1961

If the Spanberger number holds >60 in Loudoun and >70 in Fairfax, also given a likely overperformance in rural VA, probably a 12+ pt victory.

feed me the results

In 2001, eminent State Senator L. Louise Lucas lost a special election to replace the deceased Rep. Norman Sisisky. At the time, the Virginia congressional boundaries favored Republicans, as in 2000, George Bush won Virginia by just 8% despite winning 8/11 CDs.

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This project was one of the most difficult (and most fun) I’ve ever completed, taking me over a year to complete. I drew each precinct myself and traveled to a handful of County Courthouses to get the results. Thanks for reading if you made it this far🙂

Goldwater’s top precinct was Liberty Furnace (32-3) in traditionally Republican Shenandoah County. Shenandoah only voted Democratic on one occasion in the past 100 years, in 1932.

Johnson received unanimous support in two precincts: Jefferson Park in Newport News and Wash Woods in Virginia Beach. Wash Woods was a remote precinct with only 7 registered voters, long known for being the first in the nation to report on election night.

1964 would be the last time Virginia selected a Democrat for President until 2008. Looking to the present, a not-so-different dynamic is at play. Virginia is a Democratic state, but its transplant-heavy suburbs and urban minority cores are what give the state a Democratic lean.

government was why they switched their allegiance to the Republican Party. This attitude was not unlike the ones shared in Mississippi or Alabama. See below how one older Southside gentleman viewed things, and also a [very elite] summation from the Richmond Times-Dispatch:

harbored disdain for the expanding federal government. Those Virginians, especially across Southside, were the political oligarchy that comprised white, rural Virginians, operating at the behest of Senator Harry Byrd. Their resistance to Civil Rights laws and a large federal…