2019 Virginia House of Delegates election

2019 Virginia House of Delegates elections

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All 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates
51 seats needed for a majority
Turnout42.4% Decrease 5.2[1]
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Eileen Filler-Corn Kirk Cox
Party Democratic Republican
Leader since January 1, 2019 January 10, 2018
Leader's seat 41st 66th
Last election 49 51
Seats won 55 45
Seat change Increase 6 Decrease 6
Popular vote 1,200,666 1,002,105
Percentage 52.7% 43.3%
Swing Decrease 0.4% Decrease 0.5%

Results:
     Democratic hold      Democratic gain
     Republican hold

Speaker before election

Kirk Cox
Republican

Elected Speaker

Eileen Filler-Corn
Democratic

The 2019 Virginia House of Delegates election was held on Tuesday, November 5, 2019, concurrently with the elections for the Senate of Virginia, to elect members to the 161st Virginia General Assembly. All 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates were up for election. It resulted in Democrats gaining 6 seats in the House of Delegates, and gaining control of both chambers of the General Assembly, marking the first time that Democrats held control of both legislative and executive branches in Virginia since 1993.

Primary elections were held on June 11, 2019.

  1. ^ "Registration/Turnout Statistics". Virginia Department of Elections. Archived from the original on November 15, 2020. Retrieved November 16, 2020.

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