1997 Virginia House of Delegates election

The Virginia House of Delegates election of 1997 was held on Tuesday, November 4.

1997 Virginia House of Delegates elections
November 4, 1997
All 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates
51 seats needed for a majority
Turnout49.5%[1]
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Tom Moss Vance Wilkins
Party Democratic Republican
Leader since September 28, 1991 November 19, 1991
Leader's seat 88th 24th
Last election 52 47
Seats won 51 48
Seat change 1 1
Popular vote 658,203 779,031
Percentage 43.8% 51.8%
Swing 2.9% 1.1%
Speaker before election

Tom Moss
Democratic

 Elected Speaker

Tom Moss
Democratic

Elections in Virginia

Results

Overview
↓
51 48 1
Democratic Republican
Parties Candidates Seats Popular Vote
1995 1997 +/- Strength Vote % Change
Democratic 70 52 51 1 51.00% 658,203 43.75%
Republican 68 47 48 1 48.00% 779,031 51.78%
Independent 19 1 1 1.00% 52,099 3.46%
Reform Party 4 0 0 0.00% 7,932 0.53%
- Write-ins - 0 0 0.00% 7,287 0.48%
Total 161 100 100 0 100.00% 1,504,552 100.00% -

Source[2]

gollark: Random human cells are not a "person".
gollark: You're killing something but it isn't necessarily a "baby", please do not get into this now, etc.
gollark: I can't really be bothered to read this in much detail, but the paper is specifically about poly*gyny* and is apparently not correcting for other factors involved (correlation isn't causation and all).
gollark: In what way? As in, we evolved doing that?
gollark: To be fair, 99% of what people insist is logic in arguments is not actual logic.

See also
  • United States elections, 1997
  • Virginia elections, 1997
    • Virginia gubernatorial election, 1997
    • Virginia lieutenant gubernatorial election, 1997
    • Virginia Attorney General election, 1997

References
  1. "Registration/Turnout Statistics". Virginia Department of Elections. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  2. "Historical Elections Database". Virginia Department of Elections. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
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