Economy dominates issue agenda: The economy dominated the issue agenda at the voting booth in Virginia, with about six in ten naming it as the most important issue, slightly higher even than in the national exit poll. Nothing else came close, and it dominated among both Clinton and Trump voters in Virginia. Overall, a narrow majority of Virginia voters say the nation’s economy is in “not so good” or “poor” shape.

Immigration: In Virginia, the large majority of Tuesday’s voters believe illegal immigrants should be offered the chance to apply for legal status, and six in ten say immigrants help the country rather than hurt it. Still, there were strong divisions among Clinton and Trump voters on this issue. Clinton voters almost unanimously back a path to legal status, whereas Trump voters were nearly evenly divided on this question. Meanwhile, roughly two thirds of Trump voters in Virginia say immigrants do more to hurt the country than help it, while more than eight in ten Clinton voters say the opposite.

Diverse electorate: Just over three in ten voters in Virginia are nonwhite including 2 in 10 who are African Americans, similar to four years ago. Whites make up about two-thirds of voters and favor Trump by about 20 points in early results, while nonwhites support Clinton by roughly 60 points. Clinton wins about 9 in 10 African American voters, just shy of Obama’s 93 percent support four years ago.

Regional analysis: Early exit polls suggest regional turnout in Virginia looked much as it did in 2012. Clinton’s support mirrored that of Obama four years ago. Like Obama, she ran strongest in the DC suburbs, with roughly two thirds of the vote; it’s possible she could even marginally outpoll him there. Trump, like Romney, did best in the Central and Western parts of the commonwealth, with about sixty percent of the vote there. He appeared to be lagging behind Romney’s totals, though, in both the inner and outer suburbs of the District, and to a somewhat lesser extent in early exit polling he lagged in the Richmond/East section of the state.

Partisan vote and turnout: In 2008, Obama’s first election, Democrats clearly outnumbered Republicans at the polls in Virginia for the first time in at least five presidential elections. The same held true in 2012, and early exit polls suggest this may be the new normal in the state, with Democrats again making up a larger share of the electorate than Republicans. One difference between the last presidential election and this one: Romney won among Virginia’s independents in 2012, edging Obama 54 to 43. But preliminary exit polls suggest Clinton is holding Trump to a draw among this group in 2016.

Virginia’s generations: Like Obama in 2012, Clinton did well among voters in the 18 to 29 and 30-44 age groups, where Trump was garnering just over a third of the vote compared to Clinton hitting at least 50 percent. Trump then added to his troubles by underperforming Romney among older voters: whereas Romney won among those aged 45-65 and the 65 and up group, Trump only pulled to a draw here. It wasn’t all a victory march for Clinton, though. She fell short of Obama’s totals among those coveted younger voters: he got 61 percent of the under 30 vote, while she was polling closer to 50 percent. Why? Roughly one in ten younger voters in Virginia went for a third party candidate.

White college graduates: White college graduates appear to have shifted toward Democrats this year, dividing nearly evenly between Clinton and Trump after favoring Romney by 10 percentage points in 2012. Trump holds a roughly 40-point lead among white voters without college degrees, as large as Romney’s edge in the commonwealth four years ago.

Sharp divides over firearms: Half of Virginians live in gun-owning households, and those who do differ sharply from non-gun households in their support for president. Trump wins a majority of voters in gun-owning households while Clinton wins a majority among those without guns.

Virginia born: Overall, about four in ten voters at the polls on Tuesday report they were born in Virginia, while a similar share say they aren’t native born but have lived in the state more than ten years, and another roughly 14 percent are even newer residents. And they vote differently. In early exit polls, Trump was narrowly leading among the Virginia born by single digits, whereas Clinton was leading the larger group of non-native Virginians by about twenty percentage points.

Tim Kaine: Homestate VP candidate Tim Kaine split the Virginia electorate on Tuesday, with about half giving him a favorable rating, but nearly as many rating him unfavorably.

Obama: President Obama also topped the 50 percent mark in terms of job approval ratings among Virginia voters, though most of the state’s voters would prefer to see the next president govern in a different way than the two term Democrat: overall nearly half want the next president to change to more conservative policies, about one in ten want to see a more liberal next president, and a third are content to see things continue as they are.