Virginia Democrats win legislature, breaking GOP redistricting control

Virginia Democrats flipped both chambers of the General Assembly in the November 2019 elections, winning 55 of 100 House seats and 21 of 40 Senate seats. Governor Ralph Northam gave the party a full trifecta heading into the 2020 Census redistricting cycle. Republicans had controlled at least one chamber since 2000 and drawn maps in 2011 that federal courts later struck down as racial gerrymanders.