Editing Virginia (section)

===Federal elections===
{{See also|United States presidential elections in Virginia}}
[[File:Virginia Presidential Election Results 2024.svg|thumb|[[2024 United States presidential election in Virginia|2024 U.S. presidential election results]] by county in Virginia {{leftlegend|#4389E3|Democratic}}{{leftlegend|#AA0000|Republican}}]]
[[File:Mark Warner and Tim Kaine with students from Mark Twain Middle School 2024.jpg|thumb|[[United States Senate|U.S. Senators]] [[Mark Warner]] and [[Tim Kaine]], both former [[Governor of Virginia|governors]], meet with students on the steps of the [[United States Capitol|U.S. Capitol]].|alt=Two older white men in suits address a group of teenagers assembled on the steps of the [[United States Capitol|U.S. Capitol]]]]
Though Virginia was considered a "[[swing state]]" in the [[2008 United States presidential election|2008 presidential election]],<ref name=purple>{{cite news|url=http://blog.washingtonpost.com/44/2007/10/12/the_purpling_of_america.html |title=Painting America Purple |first=Dan |last=Balz |author-link=Dan Balz |date=October 12, 2007 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=November 24, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728022004/https://blog.washingtonpost.com/44/2007/10/12/the_purpling_of_america.html |archive-date=July 28, 2011}}</ref> Virginia's thirteen [[Electoral College (United States)|electoral votes]] were carried in that election and the four since then by Democratic candidates, suggesting the state has shifted to being reliably Democratic in presidential elections. Virginia was the only former Confederate state to vote for the Democrats in the [[2016 United States presidential election in Virginia|2016]] and [[2024 United States presidential election in Virginia|2024]] presidential elections. Virginia had previously voted for Republican presidential candidates in thirteen out of fourteen [[United States presidential election|presidential elections]] from 1952 to 2004, including ten in a row from 1968 to 2004.<ref name=breeze>{{cite news |url= https://www.breezejmu.org/news/former-swing-state-virginia-has-picked-its-color-blue/article_b3ea3c5c-1e09-11eb-91cf-037ceb98986d.html |title= Former swing state Virginia has picked its color — blue |first= Ross |last= Metcalf |newspaper= The Breeze |date= November 3, 2020 |access-date= November 10, 2020}}</ref> Virginia currently holds its presidential [[Open primaries in the United States|open primary]] election on [[Super Tuesday]], the same day as fourteen other states, with [[2024 Virginia Republican presidential primary|the most recent]] held on March 5, 2024.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/virginia-democratic-primary-turnout-highest-on-record-surpassing/article_7ae3a31c-d3f1-5ebe-9aa7-b8c89cbcb138.html |title= Virginia Democratic primary turnout highest on record, surpassing 2008 |first= Mel |last= Leonor |website= The Richmond Times-Dispatch |date= March 3, 2020 |access-date= March 4, 2020}}</ref>

[[List of United States senators from Virginia|Virginia's two U.S. senators]] are in [[Classes of United States senators|classes 1 and 2]]. Virginia has had [[United States congressional delegations from Virginia|eleven U.S. House of Representatives seats]] since 1993, and control of the majority has flipped four times since then, often as part of "[[Wave elections in the United States|wave elections]]". Currently, Democrats hold six seats to Republicans' five.