The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Virginia:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Attorney General
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Delegates
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are as follows: Anti-Administration (AA); Constitutional Union (CU); Democratic (D); Democratic-Republican (DR); Federalist (F); Independent (I); no party (N), unknown, or other; Pro-Administration (PA); Republican (R); Readjuster (RA); Union (U); and a tie or coalition within a group of elected officials.
| Year | Executive offices | General Assembly | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Attorney General | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | |||
| 1776 | Patrick Henry (N) | not an elected office | Edmund Randolph (N) | began in 1789 | ||||||
| 1777 | ||||||||||
| 1778 | ||||||||||
| 1779 | ||||||||||
| Thomas Jefferson (N) | ||||||||||
| 1780 | ||||||||||
| 1781 | ||||||||||
| William Fleming (N) | ||||||||||
| Thomas Nelson, Jr. (N) | ||||||||||
| David Jameson (N) | ||||||||||
| 1782 | Benjamin Harrison V (N) | |||||||||
| 1783 | ||||||||||
| 1784 | ||||||||||
| 1785 | Patrick Henry (N) | |||||||||
| 1786 | James Innes (N) | |||||||||
| 1787 | Edmund Randolph (N) | |||||||||
| 1788 | ||||||||||
| 1789 | Beverley Randolph (N) | William Grayson (AA) | Richard Henry Lee (AA)) | 7AA, 3PA | George Washington (N) Y | |||||
| 1790 | John Walker (PA) | |||||||||
| 1791 | James Monroe (AA) | 8AA, 2PA | ||||||||
| 1792 | Henry Lee III (F) | |||||||||
| John Taylor (AA) | ||||||||||
| 1793 | 15AA, 4PA | |||||||||
| 1794 | ||||||||||
| vacant | vacant | |||||||||
| 1795 | Robert Brooke (DR) | Stevens T. Mason (DR) | Henry Tazewell (DR) | 17DR, 2F | ||||||
| 1796 | Thomas Jefferson (DR) N | |||||||||
| 1797 | James Wood (DR) | Robert Brooke (DR) | 15DR, 4F | |||||||
| 1798 | ||||||||||
| 1799 | ||||||||||
| Hardin Burnley | vacant | 13DR, 6F | ||||||||
| John Pendleton, Jr. | 14DR, 5F | |||||||||
| 1800 | James Monroe (DR) | Philip Norborne Nicholas (DR) | Wilson Cary Nicholas (DR) | Thomas Jefferson (DR) Y | ||||||
| 1801 | 18DR, 1F | |||||||||
| 1802 | ||||||||||
| 1803 | John Page (DR) | |||||||||
| John Taylor (DR) | 18DR, 4F | |||||||||
| 1804 | Abraham B. Venable (DR) | 19DR, 3F | Thomas Jefferson and 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 | 20DR, 2F | |||||||||
| 1808 | James Madison and George Clinton (DR) Y | |||||||||
| 1809 | John Tyler, Sr. (DR) | Richard Brent (DR) | 16DR, 6F | |||||||
| 1810 | ||||||||||
| 1811 | ||||||||||
| George William Smith (DR) | ||||||||||
| James Monroe (DR) | ||||||||||
| George William Smith (DR) | ||||||||||
| Peyton Randolph (DR) | ||||||||||
| 1812 | James Madison and 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 and Daniel D. Tompkins (DR) Y | ||||||||
| 1817 | James Patton Preston (DR) | 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 (DR) | 21DR, 1F | |||||||
| 1824 | William H. Crawford and John C. Calhoun (DR) N | |||||||||
| vacant | ||||||||||
| 1825 | vacant | Littleton Waller Tazewell (DR) | 22DR | |||||||
| 1826 | John Tyler (DR) | John Randolph (DR) | ||||||||
| 1827 | William Branch Giles (D) | John Tyler (DR) | ||||||||
| 1828 | Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun (D) Y | |||||||||
| 1829 | ||||||||||
| 1830 | John Floyd (D) | |||||||||
| 1831 | ||||||||||
| 1832 | Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren (D) Y | |||||||||
| vacant | ||||||||||
| 1833 | William Cabell Rives (DR) | 21DR | ||||||||
| 1834 | Littleton Waller Tazewell (W) | Sidney S. Baxter (W) | Benjamin W. Leigh (W) | |||||||
| 1835 | 17DR, 3W, 1D | |||||||||
| 1836 | Wyndham Robertson (W) | William Cabell Rives (D) | Martin Van Buren and Richard Mentor Johnson (D) Y | |||||||
| vacant | ||||||||||
| 1837 | David Campbell (D) | Richard E. Parker (DR) | 15D, 6W | |||||||
| William H. Roane (D) | ||||||||||
| 1838 | ||||||||||
| 1839 | vacant | 12D, 7W, 2Cons. | ||||||||
| 1840 | Thomas Walker Gilmer (W) | 11D, 8W, 2Cons. | Martin Van Buren and Richard Mentor Johnson (D) N | |||||||
| 1841 | John M. Patton (W) | William Cabell Rives (W) | William S. Archer (W) | 11W, 10D | ||||||
| John Rutherford (W) | ||||||||||
| 1842 | John Munford Gregory (W) | |||||||||
| 1843 | James McDowell (D) | 12D, 3W | ||||||||
| 1844 | 11D, 4W | James K. Polk and George M. Dallas (D) Y | ||||||||
| 1845 | vacant | 13D, 2W | ||||||||
| 1846 | William "Extra Billy" Smith (D) | Isaac S. Pennybacker (D) | ||||||||
| 1847 | James Murray Mason (D) | Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (D) | 9D, 6W | |||||||
| 1848 | Lewis Cass and William Orlando Butler (D) N | |||||||||
| 1849 | John B. Floyd (D) | 14D, 1W | ||||||||
| 1850 | 13D, 2W | |||||||||
| 1851 | ||||||||||
| 1852 | Joseph Johnson (D) | Shelton Leake (D) | Willis P. Bocock (D) | Franklin Pierce and William R. King (D) Y | ||||||
| 1853 | 12D, 1W | |||||||||
| 1854 | ||||||||||
| 1855 | 12D, 1U | |||||||||
| 1856 | Henry A. Wise (D) | Elisha W. McComas | James Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge (D) Y | |||||||
| 1857 | William Lowther Jackson | John Randolph Tucker (D) | 13D | |||||||
| 1858 | ||||||||||
| 1859 | 8D, 5 Ind. Dem. | |||||||||
| 1860 | John Letcher (D) | Robert Latane Montague (D) | John Bell and Edward Everett (CU) N | |||||||
| 1861 | Robert Latane Montague (D) | Daniel Polsley (R) | 4U | |||||||
| Waitman T. Willey (U) | John S. Carlile (U) | |||||||||
| 1862 | 5U | |||||||||
| 1863 | Leopold Copeland Parker Cowper | Lemuel J. Bowden (U) | vacant during Civil War | |||||||
| 1864 | William Smith (D) | Samuel Price | vacant | no Electors counted | ||||||
| 1865 | Leopold Copeland Parker Cowper | Thomas Russell Bowden (R) | vacant during Reconstruction | |||||||
| Francis Harrison Pierpont (R) | ||||||||||
| 1866 | ||||||||||
| 1867 | ||||||||||
| 1868 | ||||||||||
| Henry H. Wells (R) | ||||||||||
| 1869 | John F. Lewis (R) | vacant during Reconstruction | 5Cons., 3R | |||||||
| Gilbert Carlton Walker (R) | Charles Whittlesey | |||||||||
| 1870 | John Lawrence Marye, Jr. (D) | James Craig Taylor | John F. Lewis (R) | John W. Johnston (D) | ||||||
| 1871 | 4D, 3R, 1Cons. | |||||||||
| 1872 | Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson (R) Y | |||||||||
| 1873 | 5D, 4R | |||||||||
| 1874 | James L. Kemper (D) | Robert E. Withers (D) | Raleigh T. Daniel | 5R, 4D | ||||||
| 1875 | Henry Wirtz Thomas (D) | Robert E. Withers (D) | 8D, 1R | |||||||
| 1876 | Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks (D) N | |||||||||
| 1877 | ||||||||||
| 1878 | Frederick W. M. Holliday (D) | James A. Walker (D) | James G. Field | |||||||
| 1879 | ||||||||||
| 1880 | Winfield Scott Hancock and William Hayden English (D) N | |||||||||
| 1881 | William Mahone (RA) | 7D, 2R | ||||||||
| 1882 | William E. Cameron (RA) | John F. Lewis (D) | Frank S. Blair (RA) | |||||||
| 1883 | Harrison H. Riddleberger (RA) | 5D, 5RA | ||||||||
| 1884 | 6D, 4RA | Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks (D) Y | ||||||||
| 1885 | 8D, 2R | |||||||||
| 1886 | Fitzhugh Lee (D) | John Edward Massey (D) | Rufus A. Ayers (D) | |||||||
| 1887 | John W. Daniel (D) | 6R, 3D, 1Labor | ||||||||
| 1888 | Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman (D) N | |||||||||
| 1889 | John S. Barbour, Jr. (D) | 8D, 2R | ||||||||
| 1890 | Philip W. McKinney (D) | James Hoge Tyler (D) | R. Taylor Scott (D) | 6D, 4R | ||||||
| 1891 | 10D | |||||||||
| 1892 | Eppa Hunton (D) | Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson I (D) Y | ||||||||
| 1893 | ||||||||||
| 1894 | Charles Triplett O'Ferrall (D) | Robert Craig Kent (D) | ||||||||
| 1895 | Thomas S. Martin (D) | 9D, 1R | ||||||||
| 1896 | 8D, 2R | William Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewall (D) N | ||||||||
| 1897 | ||||||||||
| vacant | ||||||||||
| 1898 | James Hoge Tyler (D) | Edward Echols (D) | Andrew Jackson Montague (D) | 6D, 4R | ||||||
| 1899 | 10D | |||||||||
| 1900 | 9D, 1R | William Jennings Bryan and Adlai E. Stevenson I (D) N | ||||||||
| 1901 | 10D | |||||||||
| 1902 | Andrew Jackson Montague (D) | Joseph Edward Willard (D) | William Alexander Anderson (D) | |||||||
| 1903 | 9D, 1R | |||||||||
| 1904 | Alton B. Parker and Henry G. Davis (D) N | |||||||||
| 1905 | ||||||||||
| 1906 | Claude A. Swanson (D) | James Taylor Ellyson (D) | ||||||||
| 1907 | ||||||||||
| 1908 | William Jennings Bryan and John Worth Kern (D) N | |||||||||
| 1909 | ||||||||||
| 1910 | William Hodges Mann (D) | Samuel W. Williams (D) | ||||||||
| Claude A. Swanson (D) | ||||||||||
| 1911 | ||||||||||
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D) Y | |||||||||
| 1913 | ||||||||||
| 1914 | Henry Carter Stuart (D) | John Garland Pollard (D) | ||||||||
| 1915 | ||||||||||
| 1916 | ||||||||||
| 1917 | ||||||||||
| 1918 | Westmoreland Davis (D) | Benjamin Franklin Buchanan (D) | John R. Saunders (D) | |||||||
| 1919 | ||||||||||
| 1920 | Carter Glass (D) | James M. Cox and Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) N | ||||||||
| 1921 | ||||||||||
| 1922 | Elbert Lee Trinkle (D) | Junius Edgar West (D) | 8D, 2R | |||||||
| 1923 | 10D | |||||||||
| 1924 | John W. Davis and Charles W. Bryan (D) N | |||||||||
| 1925 | ||||||||||
| 1926 | Harry F. Byrd (D) | |||||||||
| 1927 | ||||||||||
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) Y | |||||||||
| 1929 | 7D, 3R | |||||||||
| 1930 | John Garland Pollard (D) | James H. Price (D) | ||||||||
| 1931 | 9D, 1R | |||||||||
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) Y | |||||||||
| 1933 | Harry F. Byrd (D) | 9D | ||||||||
| 1934 | George C. Peery (D) | |||||||||
| Abram Penn Staples (D) | ||||||||||
| 1935 | ||||||||||
| 1936 | ||||||||||
| 1937 | ||||||||||
| 1938 | James H. Price (D) | Saxon Winston Holt (D) | ||||||||
| 1939 | ||||||||||
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace (D) Y | |||||||||
| 1941 | vacant | |||||||||
| 1942 | Colgate Darden (D) | William M. Tuck (D) | ||||||||
| 1943 | ||||||||||
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S Truman (D) Y | |||||||||
| 1945 | ||||||||||
| 1946 | William M. Tuck (D) | Lewis Preston Collins II (D) | ||||||||
| Thomas G. Burch (D) | ||||||||||
| 1947 | Harvey Black Apperson (D) | A. Willis Robertson (D) | ||||||||
| 1948 | James Lindsay Almond, Jr. (D) | Harry S Truman and Alben W. Barkley (D) Y | ||||||||
| 1949 | 8D | |||||||||
| 1950 | John S. Battle (D) | 9D | ||||||||
| 1951 | ||||||||||
| 1952 | Allie Edward Stokes Stephens (D) | Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon (R) Y | ||||||||
| 1953 | 7D, 3R | |||||||||
| 1954 | Thomas Bahnson Stanley (D) | |||||||||
| 1955 | 8D, 2R | |||||||||
| 1956 | ||||||||||
| 1957 | Kenneth Cartwright Patty (D) | |||||||||
| 1958 | James Lindsay Almond, Jr. (D) | Albertis S. Harrison, Jr. (D) | ||||||||
| 1959 | ||||||||||
| 1960 | Richard M. Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R) N | |||||||||
| 1961 | Frederick Thomas Gray (D) | |||||||||
| 1962 | Albertis S. Harrison, Jr. (D) | Mills E. Godwin, Jr. (D) | Robert Young Button (D) | |||||||
| 1963 | ||||||||||
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert H. Humphrey (D) Y | |||||||||
| 1965 | ||||||||||
| 1966 | Mills E. Godwin, Jr. (D) | Fred G. Pollard (D) | Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (D) | |||||||
| 1967 | William B. Spong, Jr. (D) | 6D, 4R | ||||||||
| 1968 | Richard M. Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) Y | |||||||||
| 1969 | 5D, 5R | |||||||||
| 1970 | A. Linwood Holton, Jr. (R) | J. Sargeant Reynolds (R) | Andrew Pickens Miller (D) | Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (I) | ||||||
| 1971 | 6R, 4D | |||||||||
| Henry Howell (I) | ||||||||||
| 1972 | ||||||||||
| 1973 | William L. Scott (R) | 7R, 3D | ||||||||
| 1974 | Mills E. Godwin, Jr. (R) | John N. Dalton (R) | ||||||||
| 1975 | 5R, 5D | |||||||||
| 1976 | Gerald R. Ford and Robert J. Dole (R) N | |||||||||
| 1977 | Anthony Francis Troy (D) | 6R, 4D | ||||||||
| 1978 | John N. Dalton (R) | Chuck Robb (D) | Marshall Coleman (R) | |||||||
| 1979 | John Warner (R) | |||||||||
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush (R) Y | |||||||||
| 1981 | 9R, 1D | |||||||||
| 1982 | Chuck Robb (D) | Richard Joseph Davis (D) | Gerald L. Baliles (D) | |||||||
| 1983 | Paul S. Trible, Jr. (R) | 6R, 4D | ||||||||
| 1984 | ||||||||||
| 1985 | William Broaddus | |||||||||
| 1986 | Gerald L. Baliles (D) | Douglas Wilder (D) | Mary Sue Terry (D) | |||||||
| 1987 | 5R, 5D | |||||||||
| 1988 | George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) Y | |||||||||
| 1989 | Chuck Robb (D) | |||||||||
| 1990 | Douglas Wilder (D) | Don Beyer (D) | ||||||||
| 1991 | 6D, 4R | |||||||||
| 1992 | 22D, 18R | 59D, 40R, 1I | George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) N | |||||||
| 1993 | Stephen D. Rosenthal | 7D, 4R | ||||||||
| 1994 | George Allen (R) | Jim Gilmore (R) | 52D, 47R, 1I | |||||||
| 1995 | 6D, 5R | |||||||||
| 1996 | 21R, 19D | 50R, 49D, 1I | Robert J. Dole and Jack Kemp (R) N | |||||||
| 1997 | Richard Cullen | |||||||||
| 1998 | Jim Gilmore (R) | John H. Hager (R) | Mark Earley (R) | |||||||
| 1999 | ||||||||||
| 2000 | 52R, 47D, 1I | George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R) Y | ||||||||
| 2001 | Randolph A. Beales | George Allen (R) | 6R, 4D, 1I | |||||||
| 2002 | Mark Warner (D) | Tim Kaine (D) | Jerry Kilgore (R) | 64R, 34D, 2I | ||||||
| 8R, 3D | ||||||||||
| 2003 | ||||||||||
| 2004 | 24R, 16D | 61R, 37D, 2I | ||||||||
| 2005 | ||||||||||
| Judith Jagdmann | ||||||||||
| 2006 | Tim Kaine (D) | Bill Bolling (R) | Bob McDonnell (R) | 57R, 40D, 3I | ||||||
| 2007 | Jim Webb (D) | |||||||||
| 2008 | 21D, 19R | 54R, 44D, 2I | Barack Obama and Joe Biden (D) Y | |||||||
| 2009 | Bill Mims (R) | 53R, 45D, 2I | Mark Warner (D) | 6D, 5R | ||||||
| 2010 | Bob McDonnell (R) | Ken Cuccinelli (R) | 22D, 18R | 59R, 38D, 2I | ||||||
| 2011 | 8R, 3D | |||||||||
| 2012 | 20R, 20D | 67R, 32D, 1I | ||||||||
| 2013 | Tim Kaine (D) | |||||||||
| Year | Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Attorney General | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes | |
| Executive offices | General Assembly | United States Congress | ||||||||
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