Political party strength in Virginia

The following table indicates party affiliation in the Commonwealth of Virginia for the individual offices of:

• Governor
• Lieutenant Governor
• Attorney General

It also indicates the historical composition of the collective:

• Senate
• House of Delegates
• State delegation to the United States Senate (individually)
• State delegation to the United States House of Representatives

1776–1851

Year	Executive offices		General Assembly		United States Congress			Electoral votes
	Governor	Attorney General	State Senate	State House	U.S. Senator (Class I)	U.S. Senator (Class II)	U.S. House
1776	Patrick Henry (NP)	Edmund Randolph (NP)	[ ? ]	[ ? ]	began in 1789
1777
1778
1779
	Thomas Jefferson (NP)
1780
1781
	William Fleming (NP) [a]
	Thomas Nelson Jr. (NP)
	David Jameson (NP) [a]
1782	Benjamin Harrison V (NP)
1783
1784
1785	Patrick Henry (NP)
1786		James Innes (F)
1787	Edmund Randolph (NP)
1788
1789	Beverley Randolph (NP)				William Grayson (AA) [b]	Richard Henry Lee (AA)	7AA, 3PA	George Washington (I)Y
1790					John Walker (PA)
1791					James Monroe (AA)		8AA, 2PA
1792	Henry Lee III (F)
						John Taylor of Caroline (AA)
1793							15AA, 4PA
1794				F majority
					vacant	vacant
1795	Robert Brooke (DR)				Stevens Thomson Mason (AA)	Henry Tazewell (AA)	17DR, 2F
					Stevens Thomson Mason (DR)	Henry Tazewell (DR)
1796								Thomas Jefferson (DR)N
1797	James Wood (F)	Robert Brooke (DR)					15DR, 4F
1798
1799
	Hardin Burnley (NP)			DR majority		vacant	13DR, 6F
	John Pendleton Jr. (NP)						14DR, 5F
1800	James Monroe (DR)	Philip N. Nicholas (DR)				Wilson Cary Nicholas (DR)		Thomas Jefferson (DR)Y
1801							18DR, 1F
1802
1803	John Page (DR)						18DR, 4F
					John Taylor of Caroline (DR)
1804					Abraham B. Venable (DR)		19DR, 3F	Thomas Jefferson/ George Clinton (DR)Y
				[ ? ]	William Branch Giles (DR)	Andrew Moore (DR)
1805					Andrew Moore (DR)	William Branch Giles (DR)	21DR, 1F
1806	William H. Cabell (DR)
1807				DR majority			20DR, 2F
1808								James Madison/ George Clinton (DR)Y
1809	John Tyler Sr. (DR)				Richard Brent (DR)		16DR, 6F
1810
1811
	George William Smith (DR) [a]
	James Monroe (DR)
	George William Smith (DR) [c] [b]
	Peyton Randolph (DR) [a]
1812								James Madison/ Elbridge Gerry (DR)Y
	James Barbour (DR)
1813							17DR, 6F
1814				[ ? ]
1815	Wilson Cary Nicholas (DR)				James Barbour (DR)	vacant	19DR, 4F
1816						Armistead Thomson Mason (DR)		James Monroe/ Daniel D. Tompkins (DR)Y
1817	James Patton Preston (DR)			DR majority		John Wayles Eppes (DR)	20DR, 3F
1818
1819
1820	Thomas Mann Randolph Jr. (DR)	John Robertson (DR)				James Pleasants (DR)
							21DR, 2F
1821
1822
1823	James Pleasants (DR)		John Taylor of Caroline (DR) [b]			21DR, 1F
1824				J majority			William H. Crawford/ John C. Calhoun (DR)N
			vacant
1825			James Barbour (J)		Littleton Waller Tazewell (DR)	15J, 7NR
			vacant		Littleton Waller Tazewell (J)
1826	John Tyler (DR) [d]		John Randolph of Roanoke (J)
1827	William Branch Giles (D) [a]		John Tyler (J)			16J, 6NR
1828							Andrew Jackson/ John C. Calhoun (D)Y
1829
1830	John Floyd (D)					17J, 5NR
1831				32NP				134NP
1832						18J, 4NR	Andrew Jackson/ Martin Van Buren (D)Y
					vacant
1833			John Tyler (NR)		William Cabell Rives (J)	14J, 7NR
1834	Littleton Waller Tazewell (D)	Sidney S. Baxter (W)			Benjamin W. Leigh (NR)	16J, 8NR
1835				20D, 12W		73W, 61D [e]		17J, 4NR
1836	Wyndham Robertson (W) [a]		18D, 14W	74D, 60W		William Cabell Rives (J)	Martin Van Buren/ Richard Mentor Johnson (D)Y
					vacant
1837	David Campbell (D)		21D, 11W	77D, 55W, 2?	Richard E. Parker (J)			15D, 6W
					William Cabell Rives (D)	Richard E. Parker (D)
						William H. Roane (D)
1838			20D, 12W	85D, 47W, 2?
1839			19D, 10W, 3Con	72W, 51D, 11Con	vacant			12D, 7W, 2Con
1840	Thomas Walker Gilmer (W)		17D, 12W, 3Con	68W, 56D, 10Con			11D, 8W, 2Con	Martin Van Buren/ Richard Mentor Johnson (D)N
1841	John M. Patton (W) [a]		17D, 15W	71W, 63D	William Cabell Rives (W)	William S. Archer (W)	11W, 10D
	John Rutherfoord (D) [a]
1842	John Munford Gregory (W) [a]		17W, 15D	68W, 66D
1843	James McDowell (D)		20D, 12W	82D, 52W			12D, 3W
1844				75D, 59W			11D, 4W	James K. Polk/ George M. Dallas (D)Y
1845			21D, 11W	73W, 61D	vacant		13D, 2W
1846	William Smith (D)			79D, 55W	Isaac S. Pennybacker (D) [b]
1847			20D, 12W	72D, 60W, 2?	James M. Mason (D)	Robert M. T. Hunter (D)	9D, 6W
1848			21D, 11W	71D, 63W				Lewis Cass/ William O. Butler (D)N
1849	John B. Floyd (D)		D majority	75D, 60W			14D, 1W
1850			21D, 11W	80D, 55W			13D, 2W
1851				76D, 59W

1852–present

Year	Executive offices				General Assembly		United States Congress			Electoral votes
	Governor	Lieutenant Governor		Attorney General	State Senate	State House	U.S. Senator (Class I)	U.S. Senator (Class II)	U.S. House
1852	Joseph Johnson (D) [f]	Shelton Leake (D)		Willis Perry Bocock (D)	34D, 16W	89D, 61W, 2?	James M. Mason (D)	Robert M. T. Hunter (D)	13D, 2W	Franklin Pierce/ William R. King (D)Y
1853									12D, 1W
1854					D majority	D majority
1855									12D, 1U
1856	Henry A. Wise (D)	Elisha W. McComas (D)				96D, 56W				James Buchanan/ John C. Breckinridge (D)Y
1857		William Lowther Jackson (D)		J. Randolph Tucker (D)					13D
1858						D majority
1859									8D, 5ID
1860	John Letcher (D)	Robert Latane Montague (D)								John Bell/ Edward Everett (CU)N
1861		Robert Latane Montague (D)	Daniel Polsley (R) [g]						4U, 9 vac.
							Waitman T. Willey (U)	John S. Carlile (U)
1862					American Civil War				5U, 8 vac.
1863			Leland C. P. Cowper (R) [g]				Lemuel J. Bowden (U) [b]		vacant during Civil War
1864	William Smith (D)	Samuel Price (D)					vacant			no Electors counted
1865		Leopold C. P. Cowper (R)		Thomas Russell Bowden (R)			vacant during Reconstruction
	Francis Harrison Pierpont (R) [h]
1866					50NP	152NP [i]
1867
1868
	Henry H. Wells (R) [h]
1869		John F. Lewis (R)					vacant during Reconstruction		5Con, 3R
	Gilbert C. Walker (R) [j]			Charles Whittlesey (R)
1870		John Lawrence Marye Jr. (Con)		James Craig Taylor (Con)	30D, 13R	97D, 41R	John F. Lewis (R)	John W. Johnston (D)
1871									4D, 3R, 1Con
1872					33D, 10R	99D, 33R				Ulysses S. Grant/ Henry Wilson (R)Y
1873									5D, 4R
1874	James L. Kemper (D)	Robert E. Withers (D)		Raleigh T. Daniel (Con)	34D, 9R	99D, 32R, 1I			5R, 4D
1875		Henry Wirtz Thomas (D)					Robert E. Withers (D)		8D, 1R
1876					37D, 6R	101D, 25R, 1I, 5?				Samuel J. Tilden/ Thomas A. Hendricks (D)N
1877
1878	Frederick W. M. Holliday (Con)	James A. Walker (D)		James G. Field (Con)	38D, 4R, 1I	102D, 21I, 9R
1879
1880					31D, 9R	83D, 17R				Winfield Scott Hancock/ William Hayden English (D)N
1881							William Mahone (RA)		7D, 2R
1882	William E. Cameron (RA)	John F. Lewis (RA)		Frank S. Blair (RA)	23RA, 17D	58RA, 42D
1883								Harrison H. Riddleberger (RA)	5D, 5RA
1884					25D, 12RA	63D, 37RA			6D, 4RA	Grover Cleveland/ Thomas A. Hendricks (D)Y
1885									8D, 2R
1886	Fitzhugh Lee (D)	John E. Massey (RA)		Rufus A. Ayers (D)	30D, 10R	70D, 30R
1887							John W. Daniel (D) [b]		6R, 3D, 1Lab
1888					26D, 14R	61D, 38R, 1I				Grover Cleveland/ Allen G. Thurman (D)N
1889								John S. Barbour Jr. (D) [b]	8D, 2R
1890	Philip W. McKinney (D)	James Hoge Tyler (D)		R. Taylor Scott (D) [b]	30D, 10R	86D, 14R			6D, 4R
1891									10D
1892					39D, 1R	97D, 3R		Eppa Hunton (D)		Grover Cleveland/ Adlai Stevenson I (D)Y
1893
1894	Charles T. O'Ferrall (D)	Robert Craig Kent (D)			38D, 2R	90D, 10R
1895								Thomas S. Martin (D) [b]	9D, 1R
1896					34D, 3R, 1Cit, 1Fus, 1O	68D, 17R, 12P, 3I			8D, 2R	William Jennings Bryan/ Arthur Sewall (D)N
1897
				vacant
1898	James Hoge Tyler (D)	Edward Echols (D)		Andrew Jackson Montague (D)	35D, 4R, 1P	95D, 4R, 1I			6D, 4R
1899									10D
1900					38D, 2R	93D, 7R			9D, 1R	William Jennings Bryan/ Adlai Stevenson I (D)N
1901									10D
1902	Andrew Jackson Montague (D)	Joseph Edward Willard (D)		William Alexander Anderson (D)
1903									9D, 1R
1904					35D, 5R	86D, 14R				Alton B. Parker/ Henry G. Davis (D)N
1905
1906	Claude A. Swanson (D)	James Taylor Ellyson (D)
1907
1908										William Jennings Bryan/ John W. Kern (D)N
1909
1910	William Hodges Mann (D)			Samuel Walker Williams (D)
							Claude A. Swanson (D)
1911
1912						90D, 10R				Woodrow Wilson/ Thomas R. Marshall (D)Y
1913
1914	Henry Carter Stuart (D)			John Garland Pollard (D)		92D, 8R
1915
1916					36D, 4R	88D, 12R
1917
1918	Westmoreland Davis (D)	Benjamin Franklin Buchanan (D)		John R. Saunders (D) [b]
1919
1920					34D, 6R			Carter Glass (D)		James M. Cox/ Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)N
1921
1922	E. Lee Trinkle (D)	Junius Edgar West (D)				95D, 5R			8D, 2R
1923									10D
1924					39D, 1R	97D, 3R				John W. Davis/ Charles W. Bryan (D)N
1925
1926	Harry F. Byrd (D)					95D, 5R
1927
1928					38D, 2R	93D, 7R				Herbert Hoover/ Charles Curtis (R)Y
1929									7D, 3R
1930	John Garland Pollard (D)	James Hubert Price (D)				95D, 5R
1931									9D, 1R
1932										Franklin D. Roosevelt/ John Nance Garner (D)Y
1933							Harry F. Byrd (D)		9D
1934	George C. Peery (D)					93D, 7R
				Abram Penn Staples (D) [k]
1935
1936
1937
1938	James Hubert Price (D)	Saxon W. Holt (D) [b]
1939
1940						97D, 3R				Franklin D. Roosevelt/ Henry A. Wallace (D)Y
1941		vacant
1942	Colgate Darden (D)	William M. Tuck (D)
1943
1944					37D, 3R	94D, 6R				Franklin D. Roosevelt/ Harry S. Truman (D)Y
1945
1946	William M. Tuck (D)	Lewis Preston Collins II (D) [b]				93D, 7R
								Thomas G. Burch (D)
1947				Harvey B. Apperson (D) [l] [b]				A. Willis Robertson (D)
1948				J. Lindsay Almond (D) [m]	38D, 2R					Harry S. Truman/ Alben W. Barkley (D)Y
1949									8D
1950	John S. Battle (D)					94D, 6R			9D
1951
1952		Allie Edward Stakes Stephens (D) [n]			37D, 3R					Dwight D. Eisenhower/ Richard Nixon (R)Y
1953									7D, 3R
1954	Thomas B. Stanley (D)
1955									8D, 2R
1956
1957				Kenneth Cartwright Patty (D) [l]
1958	J. Lindsay Almond (D)			Albertis Harrison (D) [m]
1959
1960					38D, 2R	96D, 4R				Richard Nixon/ Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R)N
1961				Frederick Thomas Gray (D) [l]
1962	Albertis Harrison (D)	Mills Godwin (D)		Robert Young Button (D)		94D, 5R, 1I
1963
1964					37D, 3R	89D, 11R				Lyndon B. Johnson/ Hubert Humphrey (D)Y
1965
1966	Mills Godwin (D)	Fred G. Pollard (D)				87D, 12R, 1I	Harry F. Byrd Jr. (D)
1967								William Spong Jr. (D)	6D, 4R
1968					34D, 6R	86D, 14R				Richard Nixon/ Spiro Agnew (R)Y
1969									5D, 5R
1970	Linwood Holton (R)	J. Sargeant Reynolds (D) [b]		Andrew P. Miller (D)	33D, 7R	75D, 24R, 1I	Harry F. Byrd Jr. (I)
1971									6R, 4D
		Henry Howell (ID) [o]
1972						73D, 24R, 3I
1973								William L. Scott (R)	7R, 3D
1974	Mills Godwin (R)	John N. Dalton (R)			34D, 6R	65D, 20R, 15I
1975									5R, 5D
1976					35D, 5R	78D, 17R, 5I				Gerald Ford/ Bob Dole (R)N
1977				Anthony Francis Troy (D)					6R, 4D
1978	John N. Dalton (R)	Chuck Robb (D)		Marshall Coleman (R)	34D, 6R	76D, 21R, 3I
1979								John Warner (R)
1980					31D, 9R	74D, 25R, 1I				Ronald Reagan/ George H. W. Bush (R)Y
1981									9R, 1D
1982	Chuck Robb (D)	Dick Davis (D)		Gerald Baliles (D) [m]		66D, 32R, 2I
1983						65D, 34R, 1I	Paul Trible (R)		6R, 4D
1984					32D, 8R
1985				William Broaddus (D) [l]
1986	Gerald Baliles (D)	Douglas Wilder (D)		Mary Sue Terry (D) [m]		65D, 33R, 2I
1987									5R, 5D
1988					30D, 10R	64D, 35R, 1I				George H. W. Bush/ Dan Quayle (R)Y
1989							Chuck Robb (D)
1990	Douglas Wilder (D)	Don Beyer (D)				59D, 40R, 1I
1991									6D, 4R
1992					22D, 18R	58D, 41R, 1I				George H. W. Bush/ Dan Quayle (R)N
1993				Stephen D. Rosenthal (D) [l]					7D, 4R
1994	George Allen (R)			Jim Gilmore (R) [m]		52D, 47R, 1I
1995									6D, 5R
1996					20R, 20D [p]					Bob Dole/ Jack Kemp (R)N
1997				Richard Cullen (R) [l]
1998	Jim Gilmore (R)	John H. Hager (R)		Mark Earley (R) [m]	21R, 19D [q]	50D, 49R, 1I [r]
1999
2000						52R, 47D, 1I				George W. Bush/ Dick Cheney (R)Y
2001				Randolph A. Beales (R) [l]			George Allen (R)		6R, 4D, 1I
2002	Mark Warner (D)	Tim Kaine (D)		Jerry Kilgore (R) [m]		64R, 34D, 2I
									8R, 3D [s]
2003
2004					24R, 16D	61R, 37D, 2I
2005
				Judith Jagdmann (R) [t]
2006	Tim Kaine (D)	Bill Bolling (R)		Bob McDonnell (R) [m]		57R, 40D, 3I
2007							Jim Webb (D)
2008					21D, 19R	54R, 44D, 2I				Barack Obama/ Joe Biden (D)Y
2009				William C. Mims (R) [t]		53R, 45D, 2I [u]		Mark Warner (D)	6D, 5R
2010	Bob McDonnell (R)			Ken Cuccinelli (R)	22D, 18R [5]	59R, 39D, 2I
2011									8R, 3D
2012					20R, 20D [v]	67R, 32D, 1I
2013							Tim Kaine (D)
2014	Terry McAuliffe (D)	Ralph Northam (D)		Mark Herring (D)	20D, 20R [v]	68R, 32D
					21R, 19D [w]
2015						67R, 32D, 1I
2016						66R, 34D				Hillary Clinton/ Tim Kaine (D)N
2017									7R, 4D
2018	Ralph Northam (D)	Justin Fairfax (D)				51R, 49D
2019									7D, 4R
2020					21D, 19R	55D, 45R				Joe Biden/ Kamala Harris (D)Y
2021
2022	Glenn Youngkin (R)	Winsome Earle-Sears (R)		Jason Miyares (R)		52R, 48D
2023					22D, 18R [x]				6D, 5R
2024					21D, 19R	51D, 49R				Kamala Harris/ Tim Walz (D)N
2025

Key to party colors and abbreviations for members of the U.S. Congress and other politicians or officials

Alaskan Independence (AKIP) Know Nothing (KN) American Labor (AL) Anti-Jacksonian (Anti-J) National Republican (NR) Anti-Administration (AA) Anti-Masonic (Anti-M) Conservative (Con) Covenant (Cov)

Democratic (D) Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) Democratic–NPL (D-NPL) Dixiecrat (Dix), States' Rights (SR) Democratic-Republican (DR) Farmer–Labor (FL) Federalist (F) Pro-Administration (PA)

Free Soil (FS) Fusion (Fus) Greenback (GB) Independence (IPM) Independent Democrat (ID) Independent Republican (IR) Jacksonian (J) Liberal (Lib)

Libertarian (L) National Union (NU) Nonpartisan League (NPL) Nullifier (N) Opposition Northern (O) Opposition Southern (O) Populist (Pop) Progressive (Prog)

Prohibition (Proh) Readjuster (Rea) Republican (R) Silver (Sv) Silver Republican (SvR) Socialist (Soc) Union (U) Unconditional Union (UU)

Vermont Progressive (VP) Whig (W) Independent (I) Nonpartisan (NP)

1. Member of the Council of State acting as governor.
2. Died in office.
3. Member of the Council of State acting as governor; was later elected in his own right.
4. Resigned to take an elected seat in the U.S. Senate.
5. Re-elected a Democratic speaker.
6. First popularly-elected governor.
7. Held office in the Restored Government of Virginia.
8. Unelected military governor.
9. Elected John Brown Baldwin, a Conservative, as Speaker.
10. Unelected military governor, then elected in his own right.
11. Initially appointed to fill a vacancy, later elected in his own right. Resigned to become judge on the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
12. Appointed by governor to fill vacancy.
13. Resigned to run for governor.
14. Initially elected in a special election to complete Collins's term.
15. Won special election to complete Reynolds's term.
16. Republicans and Democrats negotiated a power-sharing agreement to split control of the chamber after the tie.
17. Republicans won a special election to claim the majority in the chamber after Democrat Charles Waddell resigned his seat. ^{[1] [2]}
18. The 1997 general election yielded a 51-48-1 Democrat majority. David Brickley resigned his seat right afterward, however, and a special election for District 51 was called. His seat flipped to the Republicans, and with Independent Lacey Putney siding with the Republicans, the chamber was tied. Democrats retained the Speakership through a power-sharing agreement. ^{[3] [4]}
19. In August 2002, Goode switched parties and became a Republican.
20. Chief deputy attorney general elected attorney general by the General Assembly.
21. Independents caucused with Republicans.
22. Control of Senate decided by Lieutenant Governor.
23. On June 9, 2014, Democrat Phillip Puckett resigned from the Virginia State Senate. He was replaced by Republican Ben Chafin in an August 19 special election.
24. Republican State Senator Jennifer Kiggans vacated her seat after she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Democrat Aaron Rouse won the special election to succeed her.

References

1. "Virginia State Legislature". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
2. Southern Politics in the 1990s. LSU Press. ISBN   978-0-8071-4181-6.
3. "Virginia State Legislature". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
4. Southern Politics in the 1990s. LSU Press. ISBN   978-0-8071-4181-6.
5. Cain, Andrew (January 13, 2010). "Democrats pick up state Senate seat". timesdispatch.com. Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved January 16, 2010.^{[ permanent dead link ]}

See also

• Politics of Virginia