{"id":205521,"date":"2026-04-22T00:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205521\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:58:11","slug":"election-day-turnout-for-virginia-redistricting-measure-shows-significant-decline-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205521\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day Turnout for Virginia Redistricting Measure Shows Significant Decline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Election Day turnout in Virginia is on track to be considerably lower than it was during the 2025 governor\u2019s race, breaking with the high interest seen during the early voting period<\/a>, in which nearly 1.4 million people cast ballots.<\/p>\n

Election Day turnout tends to lean toward Republicans, and early voting and mail-in ballots tend to favor Democrats. But while the partisan split of the early vote was similar to what was seen in the governor\u2019s race, the Election Day vote on Tuesday appeared to be down more significantly in Democratic areas, according to precinct-level turnout data available at midday. Precincts that voted overwhelmingly for Republicans in the past had smaller declines when compared with 2025.<\/p>\n

Drawing conclusions about the final outcome of an election based wholly on turnout is unreliable, even once the data is complete, as partisan affiliation is not a reliable indicator of vote choice. And this election, in which voters are deciding on an amendment<\/a> to the state\u2019s Constitution, falls outside traditional partisan lines.<\/p>\n

The amendment would temporarily restore redistricting powers to the General Assembly, in an attempt to offset redistricting efforts<\/a> made in other states with the encouragement of President Trump. If passed, Democrats could potentially pick up as many as four additional House seats, leaving Virginia with only one safe Republican district, though the amendment would still face court challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Election Day turnout in Virginia is on track to be considerably lower than it was during the 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,58310,1876,418],"class_list":{"0":"post-205521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-redistricting-and-reapportionment","12":"tag-united-states-politics-and-government","13":"tag-virginia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}