Virginia State Senate elections, 2019

Northam carried the district by 0.02 percent in 2017. Reeves was unopposed for re-election within the 2015 general election, and defeated a Democratic incumbent to win the seat by 0.6 percent in 2011.
Hillary Clinton (D) received Virginia with forty nine.7 % of the vote. Donald Trump (R) received 44.four %. In presidential elections between 1900 and 2016, Virginia voted Democratic 56.67 p.c of the time and Republican forty three.33 % of the time.
In the five presidential elections between 2000 and 2016, Virginia voted Democratic three times (2008, 2012, and 2016) and Republican two occasions (2000 and 2004). Shelly Simonds, who lost a “lot draw” in the 2017 race for Virginia’s House of Delegates, ousted incumbent David Yancey tonight, CNN projects. How are early votes counted controls the governor's workplace and majorities in both state legislative chambers in Mississippi. The bike owner who flipped off President Trump's motorcade in 2017, and misplaced her job due to it, has received her bid for local office in Virginia.
This was a Republican-held district that Hillary Clinton (D) gained in the 2016 presidential election and the incumbent gained within the earlier election by less than 10 percentage factors. This was a Republican-held district that Hillary Clinton (D) received within the 2016 presidential election and the incumbent retired. Incumbent Frank Wagner (R) won re-election in 2015 by 8 points. Clinton carried District 5 by zero.2 factors in the 2016 presidential election.