Virginia Is Light Blue—That Alone Didn’t Guarantee a Northam Win. ... Gillespie tried to use the freedom afforded by a gubernatorial election to draw a new map and unite the GOP.

Below is the traditional color-coded map of the Virginia gubernatorial results. It shows many Republican counties marked in red and a smaller number of Democratic counties or cities in blue.

Trump lost Virginia in the previous two elections, with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton winning with a plurality of 49.73% in 2016 and President Joe Biden taking 54.11% of the vote in 2020.