The 2026 United States Senate election in Virginia will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the Commonwealth of Virginia. The election will be held concurrently with the 2026 United States elections to the House of Representatives, the United States Senate, and other various state and local elections. Primary elections will be held on August 4, 2026. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Warner is running for re-election after serving three terms in office.
Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Warner, first elected in 2008, will run for re-election. In the 2020 U.S. Senate election, Warner won by 12.08% which outran Joe Biden's 10.11% margin in the concurrent presidential election in the state. Virginia is considered to be a moderately blue state at both the federal and statewide level, consistently voting Democratic for president from the 2008 presidential election to the 2024 presidential election. In the 2024 presidential election, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris won the state by 5.78% which was a decrease from Biden's 10.11% win in 2020.
Both political parties have seen success in the state. In the 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election, Republicans somewhat unexpectedly won the governorship when Glenn Youngkin won the election while they flipped the House of Delegates. In the 2023 Virginia elections, Democrats regained control of the House of Delegates and maintained control in the Virginia Senate.
In the 2025 Virginia gubernatorial election, former Democratic U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger defeated Republican Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears by 15.36%. Spanberger won suburban and independent voters by large margins when they backed Youngkin in 2021 and won Latino and minority voters who trended Republican in 2024.
According to most predictions, Mark Warner is expected to solidly win re-election.
Mark Warner vs. Glenn Youngkin
Official campaign websites