2020 United States Senate election in Virginia


The 2020 United States Senate election in Virginia will be held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the Commonwealth of Virginia, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Senator Mark Warner first won election in 2008 getting 65% of the vote over former governor Jim Gilmore. In 2014, during the Tea Party movement, and declining voter turnout, Senator Warner won re-election with 49.1% of the vote defeating former chairman of the Republican National Committee Ed Gillespie by 0.8%. Warner is running for a third term.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Seven Republicans declared for the race, but only three made the threshold of 3,500 signatures. The original signature threshold was 10,000 signatures, but was lowered to 3,500 following a suit by Omari Faulkner. The primary was June 23.

Candidates

Nominee

Results

Independents

Declared

Predictions

Polling

;with Mark Warner and Generic Republican
Poll sourceDate
administered		Sample
size		Margin
of error		Mark
Warner 		Generic
Republican		OtherUndecided
May 3–16, 2020563 ± 4.1%48%31%––

;with Generic Democrat and Generic Republican
Poll sourceDate
administered		Sample
size		Margin
of error		Generic
Democrat		Generic
Republican		OtherUndecided
Feb 15–19, 2019636± 4.0%43%26%2%23%

Endorsements

Results