Election Day Turnout for Virginia Redistricting Measure Shows Significant Decline

In-person turnout on Tuesday is trailing far behind that of last year’s governor’s race, which set a state record in a nonpresidential election.

Election Day turnout in Virginia is on track to be considerably lower than it was during the 2025 governor’s race, breaking with the high interest seen during the early voting period, in which nearly 1.4 million people cast ballots.

Election Day turnout tends to lean toward Republicans, and early voting and mail-in ballots tend to favor Democrats. But while the partisan split of the early vote was similar to what was seen in the governor’s race, the Election Day