What Went Down During The 2021 Elections

Nathaniel mentioned that Republicans may well be on their way to taking control of Virginia’s House of Delegates, but remember that the elections for that chamber were held under the same lines as before the 2020 census, as the delay in census data negated the possibility of drawing new ones in time for the 2021 election. Once the new lines are drawn by the state Supreme Court — the state’s bipartisan redistricting commission failed to come up with a plan — it’s possible there’ll be court-ordered elections in all 100 seats in 2022 at the time of the regular federal midterm election, followed by regular elections in 2023. There’s precedent for back-to-back-to-back election years in Virginia’s legislature due to court decisions, too, as it happened from 1981 to 1983.

Our friends at the ABC News Decision Desk are now characterizing Youngkin as “leading in the Virginia governor’s race.”

Fairfax County is reportedly rescanning 20,000 ballots from four early voting locations. Over 165,500 residents in Fairfax County voted early.