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United States House elections in Virginia, 2020 (June 23 Democratic primaries)
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The 2020 U.S. House of Representatives elections in Virginia took place on November 3, 2020. Voters elected 11 candidates to serve in the U.S. House, one from each of the state's 11 congressional districts. This page focuses on the Democratic primaries that took place in Virginia on June 23, 2020.
In Virginia, political parties decide for themselves whether to nominate their candidates via primary or convention. The 6th and 9th districts held Democratic Party conventions. The 9th Congressional District convention was scheduled for May 2, 2020, and the 6th Congressional District convention was scheduled for May 9, 2020.[1][2]
Click here for more information about the Republican primaries.
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A primary election is an election in which registered voters select a candidate that they believe should be a political party's candidate for elected office to run in the general election. They are also used to choose convention delegates and party leaders. Primaries are state-level and local-level elections that take place prior to a general election. Virginia utilizes an open primary process in which registered voters do not have to be members of a party to vote in that party's primary.[3][4]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
Candidates
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District 1
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 2
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Elaine Luria (Incumbent) ✔
Did not make the ballot:
District 3
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Robert C. Scott (Incumbent) ✔
District 4
Democratic primary candidates
- Aston Donald McEachin (Incumbent) ✔
- R. Cazel Levine
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 5
Democratic primary candidates
Did not make the ballot:
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
District 6
Democratic convention candidates
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Democratic primary candidates
The Democratic Party primary was canceled.
District 7
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Abigail Spanberger (Incumbent) ✔
District 8
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Donald Sternoff Beyer Jr. (Incumbent) ✔
District 9
Democratic convention candidates
The Democratic Party convention was canceled. No candidates filed for this race.
Did not make the ballot:
District 10
Democratic primary candidates
This primary was canceled and this candidate advanced:
- Jennifer Wexton (Incumbent) ✔
District 11
Democratic primary candidates
- Gerald Edward Connolly (Incumbent) ✔
- Zainab Mohsini
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey
Pivot Counties
- See also: Pivot Counties by state
Five of 133 Virginia counties—3.8 percent—are Pivot Counties. Pivot Counties are counties that voted for Barack Obama (D) in 2008 and 2012 and for Donald Trump (R) in 2016. Altogether, the nation had 206 Pivot Counties, with most being concentrated in upper midwestern and northeastern states.
| Counties won by Trump in 2016 and Obama in 2012 and 2008 | |||||||
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| County | Trump margin of victory in 2016 | Obama margin of victory in 2012 | Obama margin of victory in 2008 | ||||
| Buckingham County, Virginia | 11.28% | 2.43% | 0.87% | ||||
| Caroline County, Virginia | 5.02% | 8.24% | 11.97% | ||||
| Essex County, Virginia | 2.14% | 7.30% | 10.35% | ||||
| Nelson County, Virginia | 5.59% | 2.72% | 9.15% | ||||
| Westmoreland County, Virginia | 7.14% | 6.95% | 10.24% | ||||
Note: Although it is highlighted in the map above, the city of Chesapeake is not considered a county and not included in our calculations as such.
In the 2016 presidential election, Virginia was a battleground state. Hillary Clinton (D) won Virginia with 49.7 percent of the vote. Donald Trump (R) received 44.4 percent. In presidential elections between 1900 and 2016, Virginia voted Democratic 56.67 percent of the time and Republican 43.33 percent of the time. In the five presidential elections between 2000 and 2016, Virginia voted Democratic three times (2008, 2012, and 2016) and Republican two times (2000 and 2004).
See also
- United States House elections in Virginia, 2020 (June 23 Republican primaries)
- United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2020
- United States House of Representatives elections, 2020
- U.S. House battlegrounds, 2020
- United States House elections in Virginia (June 12, 2018 Republican primaries)
- United States House elections in Virginia (June 12, 2018 Democratic primaries)
Footnotes
- ↑ Facebook, "VA 9th District Democratic Committee Event: 9th District Convention May 2, 2020," accessed April 6, 2020
- ↑ The Roanoke Times, "No Democrat to oppose Rep. Morgan Griffith, but one emerges for Rep. Ben Cline," May 2, 2020
- ↑ NCSL,"State Primary Election Types," accessed October 7, 2024
- ↑ Virginia Department of Elections,"Casting a Ballot," accessed October 7, 2024
