2005 Virginia House of Delegates election

The Virginia House of Delegates election of 2005 was held on Tuesday, November 8.

2005 Virginia House of Delegates elections
November 8, 2005
All 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates
51 seats needed for a majority
Turnout45.0%[1]
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Bill Howell Frank Hall
Party Republican Democratic
Leader since January 8, 2003 January 9, 2002
Leader's seat 28th 69th
Last election 61 37
Seats won 58 39
Seat change 3 2
Popular vote 979,209 640,958
Percentage 56.1% 36.7%
Swing 1.6% 0.3%
Speaker before election

Bill Howell
Republican

 Elected Speaker

Bill Howell
Republican

Elections in Virginia

Results

Overview

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58 39 3
Republican Democratic
Parties Candidates Seats Popular Vote
2003 2005 +/- Strength Vote % Change
Republican 61 58 3 58.00% 979,209 56.11%
Democratic 37 39 2 39.00% 640,958 36.73%
Independent 2 3 1 3.00% 83,908 4.81%
Libertarian 0 0 0.00% 11,302 0.65%
Independent Greens 0 0 0.00% 1,664 0.10%
- Write-ins 0 0 0.00% 28,031 1.61%
Total 100 100 0 100.00% 1,745,072 100.00% -


gollark: The UK's is... somewhat less bad, as at least recently had a vaguely credible third party, and it doesn't have a system quite as bad as the electoral college, at least.
gollark: It *is* annoying how badly many countries' electoral systems are broken.
gollark: But they didn't really want to explicitly say as much because it would sound bad.
gollark: A plausible explanation I heard about the whole thing is that the Navy was assuming that it wouldn't go away for a while, and that the people on their ships were not very at risk of bad symptoms but also likely to get infected in large numbers and couldn't really be pulled out of service.
gollark: I too enjoy dying from easily preventable diseases.

See also

References
  1. "Registration/Turnout Statistics". Virginia Department of Elections. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  2. https://www.elections.virginia.gov/resultsreports/election-results/
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