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The Guardian - US
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Michael Sainato

Virginia Democrats preserve majority in first statewide elections since Trump’s victory

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The state capitol in Richmond, Virginia, on 22 April 2020. Photograph: Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP

Democrats in Virginia preserved their majority in the state legislature late on Tuesday in the first statewide elections since Donald Trump’s presidential victory in November.

In special elections for open seats, Kannan Srinivasan, a Democratic state representative, defeated Republican Tumay Harding in a race for an open state senate seat in Loudon county, Virginia, just outside of Washington DC.

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