(The Center Square) — Democrats in Virginia have retained power in the General Assembly following Tuesday’s special elections to fill three vacancies.
The special election was held to fill the seats left by two state senators elected to Congress and a delegate running for one of the open Senate seats.
Since Democrats hold both chambers by a thin margin, there was talk of a possible shift in the current balance of power – but both parties were able to retain the seats that belonged to them before November.
Del. Kannan Srinivasan, D-Loudoun, ran to replace former state Sen. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Loudoun, now a U.S. representative for Virginia’s 10th Congressional District.
Shortly after 9 p.m., with more than 95% of the votes in, the New York Times live election results showed Srinivasan as the clear winner of state Senate District 32, with over 61% of the vote to Republican Tumay Harding’s 38.7%.
JJ Singh, who ran for Srinivasan’s seat in the House of Delegates, defeated Republican candidate Ram Venkatachalam by almost the exact same margin – 61.6% to 38.4%.