The party held onto two key seats in Loudoun County that will allow them to maintain control of the state’s legislature.

Two months after Democrats were locked out of power at the federal level, a pair of special elections in a part of northern Virginia where Donald Trump dramatically improved his performance in November will offer the first signs of how voters view the political landscape as the president-elect prepares to return to office.

Voters in northern and central Virginia will vote in special elections to fill two vacancies in the state senate and an open seat in the House of Delegates.