Heading into Tuesday’s state election, Republicans held control over the governor’s mansion and attorney general’s office, and were looking to make up ground in the House of Delegates, which flipped to a one-seat Democrat majority two years ago.

That was before a blue wave made landfall in the Chesapeake Bay. Democrats swept the governor’s, lieutenant governor’s and attorney general’s races, picked up at least 13 seats in the chamber to earn a supermajority, and can look ahead to 2026 with a government trifecta.

Democrats went into Election Day holding 51 House of Delegates seats. They emerged with at least 64, according to unofficial results. Four of those flips occurred in Hampton Roads districts.

As results poured in Tuesday night, Virginia House Speaker Don Scott, who won an uncon

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