While the nation waits for Pennsylvania, North Carolina and a handful of other states to finish counting votes, more than 53 percent of Virginia's voters selected former Vice President Joe Biden on their ballot.
Here in the Alexandria area, Biden won the strong majority of votes, though voters at several precincts — including people who voted in person at City Hall on Tuesday, specifically — voted to reelect President Donald J. Trump, who declared victory for himself and called on states to stop counting votes.
The vote total in Alexandria, as of Wednesday morning, was 65,201 or 80.4 percent for Biden, the former Vice President; 14,251 voted for Trump.
Precinct-level results are very different this year than in past years due to the high volume of absentee voting. In the City of Alexandria, nearly 64,000 Alexandria residents voted absentee or in-person early, which means that the majority of Alexandria voters did not vote at their regular polling place on Election Day itself. Thus, individual precincts saw much less voter traffic on Tuesday than in past years, and the Virginia elections results does not associate absentee ballots with the precincts the voters would have visited had they voted in person on Election Day.
In Fairfax County, the race for president was was a bit closer, with 404,886 or 69.94 percent voting for Biden.
Statewide, there may be several thousand absentee ballots still in the mail, and elections officials in Virginia will count those ballots as long as they arrive by noon on Friday, Nov. 6 this year.
Outside of absentee ballots mailed in or cast early, there were some interesting results from Tuesday's in-person votes:
- At Precinct 101, the Ladrey Senior Building, exactly 50 percent of voters chose Trump for reelection. And 50.1 percent voted for Republican Daniel Gade, who was running against U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat.
- Trump also carried precinct 102, City Hall, with almost 59 percent of the votes cast there. Gade won here, too, with 63.5 percent.
- Just one single vote put Biden in the lead at precinct 202, George Mason School. Gade also won here, with 54 percent of the votes.
- Trump had a strong showing in southeast Fairfax County, including the Fort Hunt and Hollin Hall precincts, which both voted for Trump to a margin of 2 to 3 percent over Biden.
Precinct-level results for the City of Alexandria are available here. Results on the State Board of Elections website are preliminary until all votes are certified later this month.
Complete Fairfax County precinct results are available here.
