Elections in Virginia - democrats score big election night wins in virginia.
decision 2023 | see team election coverage of the virginia general election. the balance of power is at stake in virginia elections for the state senate and house of delegates... a year after abortion was widely credited with forestalling a republican 'red wave' in the 2022 us midterms an election in virginia offers a preview of whether the issue will remain as potent in 2024.
all 140 seats in the virginia general assembly will be on the ballot in the november 2023 election for the first time since 2019 — 100 seats are in the republican-controlled house of delegates and 40 are in the democratic-controlled senate.
democrats score major wins in virginia, kentucky, ohio elections.
every seat in virginia’s general assembly is up for election this year as well as municipal races for school boards boards of supervisors and more in hampton roads.
what to know for virginia's 2023 election on tuesday.
decision 2023 | see team election coverage of the virginia general election. the balance of power is at stake in virginia elections for the state senate and house of delegates... a year after abortion was widely credited with forestalling a republican 'red wave' in the 2022 us midterms an election in virginia offers a preview of whether the issue will remain as potent in 2024.
all 140 seats in the virginia general assembly will be on the ballot in the november 2023 election for the first time since 2019 — 100 seats are in the republican-controlled house of delegates and 40 are in the democratic-controlled senate.
democrats score major wins in virginia, kentucky, ohio elections.
every seat in virginia’s general assembly is up for election this year as well as municipal races for school boards boards of supervisors and more in hampton roads.
what to know for virginia's 2023 election on tuesday.
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00:00 Now here to bring some perspective to the results tonight is our political
00:05 analyst, dr bob Holesworth. Bob, thanks for sticking around for this late
00:10 hour, but kind of a kind of an earthquake out there. What happened in
00:13 the General Assembly? Well, ultimately here, what we see is the democrats hold
00:18 on to the majority. They have at least 21 seats. There's one seat left to be
00:22 determined, have to see what happens there and they have a majority in the
00:26 House right now. So the minority leader Don Scott was correct in saying we
00:31 just took the 51st vote in Virginia Beach was finished and the democrats
00:36 took that seat. There's still two seats left in the House, so the democrats
00:41 could get 52 potentially 53. Um, and so the democrats have to think this is an
00:46 extraordinary evening for them that by and large, um, a defeat that really
00:52 take some of the luster I think off of Governor Yonk ins, you know, political
00:57 start. You know, tell us about that because we had heard so much about the
01:01 fact that he was making an effort. He had spent money from his packs on on
01:05 various races here on that he was kind of going all in on trying to get
01:10 unified Republican government to an in a sense to enhance his perhaps his
01:15 national well and also to enhance his capacity to have an agenda that was
01:20 going to be pursued successfully here in Virginia. So what occurred tonight
01:24 is the democrats now have control of both houses that Governor Yonk and in
01:29 Virginia will govern. You might say at the sufferance of the democrats, you're
01:33 going to have to find ways to find issues in which they can agree the hot
01:38 button litmus test issues that he might want to take on the national stage will
01:43 not be able to be pursued in Virginia because the democrats are going to be a
01:47 brick wall against those kind of issues. Bill was this foreseen or is this a
01:51 total shock? Do you think I think it was a surprise for the republicans. I think
01:55 they thought they would have momentum that Governor Yonk and did so well in
01:58 21. Here was a governor who went out and he went in 150% not only with money but
02:04 with his effort, he was out there campaigning all the time. He was on
02:07 television and at the end of the day, the democrats had a clearer message. It
02:12 was no abortion ban. Governor said he wanted this 15 week compromise that
02:19 this would be something that people could agree upon. The democrats said no
02:24 that the situation that we now have in Virginia is fine. We didn't need to sort
02:28 of go back and take away people's freedoms. It was a very simple message.
02:33 They used it all in all the competitive races and at the end of the day it was
02:37 clearer than the message that the republicans put forward. All right, well
02:41 thank you for those insights bob. We'll be talking about this for quite a
02:44 while. You can find all of our election coverage and the results as they
02:48 become finalized. There's still a few races left by going to WTVR dot com. We
02:53 of course will have the latest starting tomorrow morning at 4 30 a.m.