Unofficial returns in Virginia’s state senate races are in, posted on Virginia’s board of elections web site. They’re interesting. The Commonwealth has 40 senate districts. Of these, only 17 were contested Republican-Democrat, with the other state senators either running unopposed or opposed only by ‘third-party’ or independent or write-in candidates.

Contested senate seats broke 8 Dem, 9 Repub. District 37 was won by the GOP candidate by less than one percent, meaning that Janet Oleszek could request a recount.

The GOP is as expected not looking its strongest in Virginia. Jeanne Devolites Davis, wife of Rep. Tom Davis, lost to her challenger, J. C. “Chap” Petersen, in District 34 in northern Virginia.

So the Democrats have taken over the Virginia senate by 21 seats to 19 for the GOP.
 

It will be interesting to see how/whether the D.C. press corps reports.