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Published November 6, 2024 at 2:30PM | Updated November 8, 2024 at 11:20AM

Trump and Harris campaign signs outside Cunningham Park Elementary School in Vienna (staff photo by Angela Woolsey

In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election, Fairfax County Democrats are confronting a more competitive Virginia, where heightened Republican mobilization has raised alarms about their hold on power in the purple state.

While Vice President Kamala Harris won Virginia by more than 5 percentage points, her margin was notably lower than President Joe Biden’s in 2020, when he won the state by over 10 points. Similarly, in Fairfax County, Harris captured 65.44% of the vote, down from Biden’s 69.85%.

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NEW: Councilmember LeBlanc wins Herndon mayoral election

By Angela Woolsey

Published November 6, 2024 at 9:45AM | Updated November 6, 2024 at 12:21PM

Voters queue outside Herndon Fortnightly Library for early voting in the 2024 general election (staff photo by James Jarvis)

The Town of Herndon has elected a new mayor and town council.

Councilmember Keven LeBlanc will be Herndon’s first openly gay mayor after defeating fellow Councilmember Pradip Dhakal with 55.3% of the vote to his opponent’s 43.5%, according to unofficial returns from the Virginia Department of Elections.

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Poll: How do you feel about the future after Election Day?

By Angela Woolsey

Published November 6, 2024 at 9:00AM

"I Voted" stickers at the Fairfax County Government Center (staff photo by Jared Serre)

The polls have closed, and the results of the 2024 general election are in.

While the results in Fairfax County and elsewhere won’t be certified for days, unofficial returns indicate that Republican nominee Donald Trump will once again be president of the United States, defeating Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris in a high-stakes race that will shape the country’s direction on issues from abortion and immigration to climate change, health care and, according to many voters, the very future of democracy.

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UPDATED: Incumbent Dems poised to win in Congress, Harris has edge in Fairfax County

By James Jarvis and Angela Woolsey

Published November 5, 2024 at 8:40PM | Updated November 6, 2024 at 12:12AM

Election signs outside the Fairfax County Government Center (staff photo by Jared Serre)

Results from today’s general election are starting to trickle in, and Fairfax County’s initial batch of tallied votes strongly favor Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential race.

As of 9:24 p.m., Harris has about two-thirds or 66% of the votes that the county has counted so far, which include some early votes and Election Day results from 127 of the county’s 264 precincts, according to unofficial results from the Virginia Department of Elections.

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Voter turnout for 2024 general election tops 60% so far in Fairfax County

By Angela Woolsey

Published November 5, 2024 at 2:00PM

Voting at the Fairfax County Government Center (staff photo by Jared Serre)

More than 60% of registered voters in Fairfax County have cast a ballot so far in this year’s general election.

As of 12:30 p.m., 18.7% of voters have cast a ballot on Election Day since polls opened at 6 a.m. today. Combined with the 43% of voters who participated in early voting or sent in an absentee ballot by mail, the county has seen a total turnout of 61.7%, the Fairfax County Office of Elections reported.

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Fairfax County opens Election Day polls after strong early voting numbers

By James Jarvis

Published November 5, 2024 at 9:00AM

Fairfax residents head to the polls during the 2024 general election (staff photo by James Jarvis)

Fairfax County saw high early voting turnout for this year’s presidential election, though the numbers didn’t reached the levels seen during the last presidential cycle.

Since early voting began on Sept. 20, over 322,000 residents, or 43% of the county’s 748,492 registered voters, have cast a vote, as of Friday (Nov. 2), the last day of in-person early voting, the Fairfax County Office of Elections posted on Twitter.

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Poll: Are you voting early or on Election Day?

By Angela Woolsey

Published October 31, 2024 at 9:00AM

Early voters line up outside Franconia Government Center for the 2024 general election (staff photo by James Jarvis)

Halloween has arrived, but this year, the real scares might still be lurking around the corner, as Election Day approaches.

Thousands of Fairfax County voters have already cast a ballot, either in person at one of the county’s 16 early voting sites or by mail.

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Supreme Court’s conservative justices allow Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations

By Associated Press

Published October 30, 2024 at 11:00AM

U.S. Supreme Court building (file photo)

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday allowed Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations that the state says is aimed at stopping people who are not U.S. citizens from voting.

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Virginia asks US Supreme Court to reinstate removals of 1,600 voter registrations

By Associated Press

Published October 28, 2024 at 11:15AM

U.S. Supreme Court building (file photo)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene to allow the state to remove roughly 1,600 voters from its rolls that it believes are noncitizens.

The request comes after a federal appeals court unanimously upheld a federal judge’s order restoring the registrations of those 1,600 voters, whom the judge said were illegally purged from the rolls under an executive order by the state’s Republican governor.

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Vienna Police: Man’s Trump signs stolen, shot with hunting bow

By Angela Woolsey

Published October 28, 2024 at 9:00AM

A roadside Trump-Vance campaign sign in Great Falls (staff photo by Angela Woolsey)

The 2024 Northern Virginia political sign wars have reportedly made an incursion into the Town of Vienna.

A resident called the Vienna Police Department earlier this month after two political signs were removed from his property on Ayr Hill Avenue NW only to be returned a few days later. The man also said he found two signs that had been “struck with a hunting bow,” according to the department’s recap for the week of Oct. 18-24.