Five Democrats will compete in a firehouse primary Saturday for a Loudoun County state House seat, which Del. Kannan Srinivasan (D) resigned after winning his party’s nomination last week for an open state Senate seat.
Feggans, a Democrat, will face former Del. Tim Anderson, a Republican, who decided to run in an effort to flip the Democratic-controlled majority in the House.
What's next for Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, who says that former President Trump's decisive election victory earlier this month means he now has "a friend in the White House."
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin backed Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears for governor ahead of the 2025 gubernatorial contest.
Low-turnout special elections can be unpredictable. Just last year, Democrats were able to flip a red seat blue in Hampton Roads. Now, Republicans are hoping they'll be able to pull off a similar upset victory in Northern Virginia.
While most states have time to breathe after presidential elections, Virginia has what are known as off-year elections.
The overall 2024 turnout rate was just over 69%, the lowest for a presidential election since 2000, according to ELECT. That year George W. Bush and Al Gore were on the ballot.
Virginia State Sen. Aaron Rouse along with state House Dels. Kelly Convirs-Fowler, Alex Askew and Michael Feggans are backing an effort to formalize Virginia Beach’s district-based election
Former President Donald Trump’s return to the White House following the Nov. 5 election is already sending ripples through Virginia politics and setting the stage for an intense 2025 election cycle in the commonwealth.
The open seat in Loudoun County is normally blue, but the stakes are high as Democrats defend their slim majority in the chamber.
A recent change to early voting may be helping Democrats in a series of special elections that are about to happen.
Six Democrats and six Republicans are vying for Virginia’s Senate seat in the 32nd district, previously held by Democrat Suhas Subramanyam who vacated the seat when he won the election to the U.S. House of Representatives for Virginia's 10th congressional district.