The outcome of the 2024 general election was a bizarre mixed bag for Manassas and Manassas Park Democrats.
Voter majorities in both cities supported Vice President Kamala Harris for President and Wisconsin Governor Tim Walz for Vice President (56.2% in Manassas, 58.5% in Manassas Park); helped re-elect Tim Kaine to a third U.S. Senate term (59.2% in Manassas, 63.4% in Manassas Park); and elevated State Senator Suhas Subramanyan to the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia’s 10th Congressional District (55.5% in Manassas, 59.4% in Manassas Park).
At the same time, every one of our 11 municipal candidates (pictured above) for mayor, city council, or school board in our two cities was elected to public office!
In Manassas, Mayor Michelle Davis-Younger (D) was re-elected as mayor with 57.2% of the votes cast versus 42.4% for her GOP opponent Xiao-Yin “Tang” Byrom.
Our three nominees for Manassas City Council received the three highest vote totals for the three available Council seats: 7,844 for Mark Wolfe, 7,590 for Ashley Hutson, and 6,639 for Tom Osina, while their three prominent GOP opponents–Robyn Williams, Lynn Forkell Greene, and Stephen Kent–trailed well behind. Tom’s margin over Robyn was 305 votes.
Similarly, our three endorsed candidates for the Manassas City School Board also received the three highest vote totals for the four available School Board seats: 7,099 for Suzanne Seaberg, 6,848 for Diana Brown, and 6,538 for Zella Jones. Zella’s margin over fourth-place Dayna Miles, the only GOP-supported candidate elected, was 92 votes, and Zella’s margin over the fifth-highest vote getter was 432 votes.
In Manassas Park, Alanna Mensing, who ran unopposed, received 83.9% of the votes for mayor, while Yesy Amaya, Darryl Moore, and Stacy Seiberling were the three highest vote getters for the three available seats on the City Council, defeating incumbent Laura Hampton (I), the only non-Democrat who was running for the Council. Stacy’s margin over Laura was 55 votes.
Statewide, Kamala Harris carried Virginia with 51.83% of the vote, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine was re-elected to a third term with 54.37% of the vote, and Virginia’s 11-member U.S. House of Representatives delegation retained it’s 6-5 Democratic majority. In Virginia’s 10th Congressional District, Democrat Suhas Subramanyan prevailed 52.09% to 47.54% over Mike Clancy, his GOP opponent.
Sadly, the nightmare-ish flip side of the 2024 elections was Donald Trump’s decisive return to power as our 47th U.S. president, enabled with a comfortable GOP majority in the U.S. Senate, a small GOP majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, and our 6R-3D ultraconservative and hyper-partisan U.S. Supreme Court. The next four years promise to be far more bleak and regressive than Trump’s chaotic first presidential term, but we must strive to minimize the Trump Revolution’s long-term damage to our democracy, freedoms, society, and planet and join the national (and global) fight to build a better and more effective progressive Democratic resurgence.
For detailed local and Virginia election results (presently unofficial), visit the following links:
