2020 United States presidential election in Virginia

The 2020 United States presidential election in Virginia was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Virginia voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominee, incumbent President Donald Trump, and running mate Vice President Mike Pence against Democratic Party nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his running mate California Senator Kamala Harris. Virginia has 13 electoral votes in the Electoral College.
Prior to the election, most news organizations considered this a state Biden would win, or a likely blue state. On the day of the election, Biden won Virginia with 54.11% of the vote, and by a margin of 10.11%, the best performance for a Democratic presidential candidate since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. Biden became the first Democratic nominee to win Chesterfield County and Lynchburg City since 1948, Virginia Beach City since 1964, James City County since 1968, and Stafford County since 1976. He also flipped Chesapeake City back to the Democratic Party. Trump flipped no counties or independent cities in the state. Nevertheless, Biden became the very first Democrat to win the election without Covington City, Nelson and Caroline County, as well as the first since 1992 to win without Buckingham County, and the first since 1960 to win without Westmoreland County, a notable bellwether. 
The diversification of Northern Virginia as well as sliding suburban support for Republicans allowed Biden to win the once-key battleground state without actively campaigning in Virginia. Biden won Loudoun County, Prince William County, Fairfax County, and Henrico County with 61.5%, 62.6%, 69.9%, and 63.7%, respectively; all four were former suburban bastions of the Republican Party in Virginia, the first three in Northern Virginia and Henrico outside Richmond. All four had voted Republican in every election from 1968 through 2000. In Arlington County, a closer DC-area suburban county that had turned Democratic several decades earlier, Biden won with 80.6% of the vote, becoming the first nominee of either party in at least a century to crack 80% there. Biden's combined margin in Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun, and Arlington Counties was greater than his statewide margin of victory. Crucially for his performance in Northern Virginia, Biden carried government workers by 18%. 
This election, Virginia weighed in as 5.6% more Democratic than the nation as a whole. Although Virginia was considered a reliable Republican-leaning state at the presidential level from 1952 to 2004, it has not voted Republican in a presidential election since 2004, and it has not elected a Republican to any statewide office since 2009, largely due to migration into counties in Northern Virginia close to Washington, D.C., which has tilted these densely populated areas towards the Democrats. This was the first election since 1988 that a presidential candidate won Virginia by double digits (George H. W. Bush having carried the Old Dominion by 20.5% in his first run); and the first election in which any presidential candidate received over 2 million votes in Virginia. 
As Georgia tilted towards Biden, this was also the first election in which fellow Southern states Georgia and Virginia voted for the same candidate since 2004, when both solidly backed George W. Bush. Conversely, Virginia and Florida continued drifting apart after a more-than-100-year run (from 1880 through 2012) of voting alike in every election save 1976 and 1996, as Florida reprised its support for Trump. This was also the first election where a former Confederate State backed a Democratic candidate with a margin of victory greater than 10% since Arkansas and Louisiana did so in 1996.
Virginia was one of sixteen states where President Trump received a lower percentage of the vote than he did in the 2016 election.
Primary elections.
Canceled Republican primary.
The Virginia Republican Party is one of several state GOP parties that have officially canceled their respective primaries and caucuses. Donald Trump's re-election campaign and GOP officials have cited the fact that Republicans canceled several state primaries when George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush sought a second term in 1992 and 2004, respectively; and Democrats scrapped some of their primaries when Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were seeking reelection in 1996 and 2012, respectively. At the Virginia State Republican Convention, originally scheduled for May 2020 but postponed to August 15, 2020, the state party will formally bind all 48 of its national pledged delegates to Trump.
Democratic primary.
The Virginia Democratic primary took place on March 3, 2020, as part of the "Super Tuesday" suite of elections.
Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders were among the major declared candidates.
Green primary.
The Green Party of Virginia conducted an online ranked choice primary from April 20 to April 26, 2020.
General election.
Polling.
Aggregate polls
Polls
By congressional district.
Biden won 7 out of Virginia’s 11 congressional districts.