Simply put: Joe Biden won Virginia’s Democratic presidential primary.
The state has 99 delegates at stake. The Republican Party voted to cancel its Virginia primary.
Biden’s win reaffirms the state’s preference for moderate candidates over more progressive ones. Super Tuesday is a key date in the primary calendar when voters in 14 states, including Virginia, made their picks.
In all, Super Tuesday offered 1,344 new delegates, or around 34 percent of all the total up for grabs nationwide.
Biden beat out Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Virginia was a key test for Biden, who has started consolidating support among moderate Democrats after a convincing win Saturday in South Carolina.
Two other moderates, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, both left the race in the run-up to Super Tuesday, then endorsed Biden on Monday. That helped unify moderates behind the former vice president, whose campaign risked collapsing until South Carolina.
Here’s how locals voted:
WYDaily has compiled a list of election results Peninsula localities including Williamsburg, York County, James City County, Hampton and Newport News.
Each locality has the number of votes as well as the percentages. Here are the unofficial results for the Democratic primary for the cities of Hampton and Newport News. Hampton is comprised of 31 precincts and Newport News has 46 precincts.
Williamsburg
In Williamsburg, total election numbers were counted by 8 p.m. on Tuesday and showed voters came out with a total of 3,563 votes cast in the city.
- Joe Biden: 1,434 votes, 40.25 percent
- Bernie Sanders: 1,131 votes, 31.74 percent
- Elizabeth Warren: 625 votes, 17.54 percent
- Michael Bloomberg: 281 votes, 7.89 percent
- Tulsi Gabbard: 21 votes, .59 percent
James City County
James City County also showed a large number of voters with a total of 15,833 votes cast in the county.
- Joe Biden: 9,147 votes, 57.71 percent
- Bernie Sanders: 2,572 votes, 16. 23 percent
- Michael Bloomberg: 1,986 votes, 12.53 percent
- Elizabeth Warren: 1,577 votes, 9.95 percent
- Tulsi Gabbard: 168 votes, 1.06 percent
York County
York County had a total number of 9,967:
- Joe Biden: 5,637 votes, 56.56 percent
- Bernie Sanders: 2,005 votes, 20.12 percent
- Michael Bloomberg: 983 votes, 9.86 percent
- Elizabeth Warren: 933 votes, 9.36 percent
- Tulsi Gabbard: 137 votes, 1.37 percent
Newport News (46 precincts)
- Joe Biden: 15,602 votes, 61.34 percent
- Bernie Sanders: 5,279 votes, 20.76 percent
- Elizabeth Warren: 1,638 votes, 6.44 percent
- Tulsi Gabbard: 185 votes, 0.73 percent
- Michael R. Bloomberg: 2,252 votes, 8.85 percent
Hampton (31 precincts)
- Joe Biden: 15,732 votes, 65.97 percent
- Bernie Sanders: 4,333 votes, 18.17 percent
- Elizabeth Warren: 1,296 votes, 5.43 percent
- Tulsi Gabbard: 143 votes, 0.60 percent
- Michael R. Bloomberg: 1,965 votes, 8.24 percent
State by the numbers
Democratic Presidential Primary unofficial state results (2,581 precincts):
- x-Joe Biden 704,373 – 53.3 percent
- Bernie Sanders 305,253 – 23.1 percent
- Elizabeth Warren 142,331 – 10.8 percent
- Michael Bloomberg 127,813 – 9.7 percent
- Tulsi Gabbard 11,307 – 0.9 percent
Delegate count:
- Joe Biden 66
- Bernie Sanders 31
- Elizabeth Warren 02
- Michael Bloomberg 0
- Tulsi Gabbard 0
Virginia is a traditional swing state that has moved more reliably Democratic in recent years, especially as people living in densely populated communities outside Washington turned their back on President Donald Trump, as many suburban voters have around the country.
Virginia is not currently a priority for Trump’s reelection campaign, but there is concern among Democrats that if Sanders is his opponent, it will threaten down-ballot races.
The Biden victory is also a blow to Bloomberg, who launched his campaign in Virginia and visited the state several times since getting in to the race as a late entrant. He spent more than $2.5 million funding groups that helped the Democrats wrest control of the state legislature and spent lavishly on field staff and television advertising in Virginia.
Sanders also made several campaign stops in Virginia before the primary.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
