Virginia State Voting Patterns
Portray the Future for Virginia General Assembly Elections in 2023
A deep partisan divide with early voting has not always been the case in Virginia. VPAP's latest visualization shows that Republicans led absentee voting in 2010 and matched Democratic efforts as recently as 2015. The sharp divergence began during the 2016 presidential election. In 2021, Republican Glenn Youngkin encouraged supporters to vote early in his successful race for governor. But the partisan gap in Virginia widened again this year, leading Republicans nationwide to reconsider a heavy reliance on Election Day turnout.