United States presidential election in Virginia, 2016 (New Johannson Scenario)



The 2016 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 8, 2016. Voters chose 20 representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice President.

Virginia voted for the Republican nominee, incumbent President Edward H. Johannson, over the Democratic nominee, Georgia Governor John C. Dickenson. Johannson won the state with 53.91% of the vote, versus 45.81% for Dickenson, beating him by a narrow margin of 8.10 percent. Johannson's victory in the state was achieved by sweeping the majority of its most populated counties, by carrying all but six of its independent cities, and by obtaining strong margins in the Republican-leaning counties of Southwest Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley.

Johannson won over sixty percent of the vote in Fairfax County, the state's most populous county, and in the cities of Fairfax and Alexandria. He garnered over seventy percent in Arlington County, and won by solid margins in Richmond, Chesterfield County, Henrico County, Norfolk, Newport News, Portsmouth, and Virginia Beach. Johannson also won over sixty percent in such cities as Roanoke, Danville, and Staunton, and carried other notable cities including Lynchburg, Petersburg, and Williamsburg.

Dickenson narrowly held Prince William County and won by a more comfortable margin in Loudoun County, in addition to carrying Albermarle County, Charlottesville, and the majority of the rural counties in Central and Southern Virginia, long strongholds of Democratic strength. Virginia weighed in as 14.20% more Democratic than the national average, and was Johannson's third-closest win after Tennessee and Texas.