Margaret Barthel / WAMU/DCist
This post will be updated as more results come in.
Virginia Democrats swept to victory in the state’s hard-fought legislative election on Tuesday night, keeping control of the state Senate and flipping the House of Delegates. The results are a major blow to Gov. Glenn Younkin, who campaigned hard for a Republican “trifecta” in Richmond.
In the new legislative session in January, the party will now have a two seat-margin in the senate and a still-undetermined margin in the House of Delegates.
In Northern Virginia, Democrats won most of the handful of battleground seats in the outer suburbs and exurbs of western Prince William and Loudoun counties, solidifying the increasingly blue tilt of those areas.
That includes the closely-watched state Senate race in Loudoun County, where Democrat Russet Perry defeated Republican Juan Pablo Segura by a roughly 5-point margin. In a neighboring district in Prince William County, Democrat Del. Danica Roem also came out on top, beating Republican Bill Woolf for a state Senate seat in the 30th District. And in House District 21, Democrat Josh Thomas held off Republican John Stirrup by three percentage points.
The results are a reversal from the party’s losses two years ago, when Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, pulled off a narrow upset in the gubernatorial race and helped Republicans recapture the House of Delegates.
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