Virginia Democrats held onto their narrow majorities in the commonwealth’s legislature Tuesday, but experts cautioned against reading too much into the results of the first special elections since Donald Trump won a second term last fall.
The special elections for three legislative seats, which took place a day after the Northern Virginia region was hit with a snowstorm that likely affected Election Day turnout, suggest that voters haven’t experienced any major political shifts since November.
Democrats held on to a pair of deep-blue Loudoun County seats (one in the state Senate, the other in the state House of Delegates), while Republicans retained a safely red state Senate seat in central Virginia. The legislative contests were triggered by the election to Congress of two former state senators – Democrat Suhas Subramanyam and Republican John McGuire.
