[2] Historically, the Democratic Party has dominated Virginia politics.

At the federal level, Virginia has voted for every Democratic presidential candidate since 2008.

The Central Committee has full control over all matters of the Party, including the adoption of an annual budget, the method of nomination for statewide candidates such as Governor, Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General; the adoption of resolutions and policy statements.

The Central Committee is composed of 20 members from each of Virginia's 11 congressional districts.

Governor Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook page had featured an individual in blackface and an individual in a Ku Klux Klan hood, Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax was accused of having sexually assaulted a professor in 2004, and Attorney General Mark Herring was revealed to have worn blackface at a college party.