Northern Virginia accounts for 88% of Spanberger's victory margin

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Northern Virginia accounts for 88% of Spanberger’s victory margin

Bruce Potter, InsideNoVa.com
November 5, 2025, 6:04 PM

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Democrat Abigail Spanberger speaks on stage after she was declared the winner of the Virginia governor's race during an election night watch party Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)(AP/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Northern Virginia accounted for about 88% of Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger’s victory margin on Tuesday, according to preliminary election results analyzed by InsideNoVa.

In the region’s four counties and five cities, Spanberger, the Democrat, won 72.3% of the total vote to just 27.4% for her Republican opponent, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears.

Across the rest of Virginia, the margin was much tighter, with Spanberger winning 51.2% to 48.7% for Earle-Sears. Spanberger wound up winning with 57.1% of the total vote statewide as she ran up the largest margin in a gubernatorial election since 2009.

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[RandySF]

1. DOGE and the shutdown.

SW Virginia mostly sat out.

[IronLionZion]

2. I love when MAGAts post maps showing lots of red rural areas

because they can't comprehend that there are more people in the cities and NoVa

[tanyev]

3. Yep. Large swaths of red rural areas don't mean much, unless they give cows the right to vote.

[IronLionZion]

4. Cows can get a federal ID card with biometrics in Modi's India

so I wouldn't put it past MAGA to try something like that here.