State Races

In the closing week of Virginia’s gubernatorial campaign, both major-party candidates are repeating debunked claims about the other’s tax policies.

Virginia’s 66th House of Delegates district has been represented by Republican and former Speaker of the House Kirk Cox since 1990. He's not running this year, and Democrats see this as one of their few chances to pick up a seat in the election.

In Virginia, voters will choose a new governor and 100 state lawmakers on Tuesday. Democrats are playing defense in a state that President Biden won by ten points. As Biden’s approval ratings have dropped, polls show the race between Republican Glenn Youngkin and Democrat Terry McAuliffe is a dead heat.

With Election Day less than a week away in Virginia, officials at the Department of Elections are hoping to reduce confusion around the vote counting process. Last year’s results were dogged nationally by unfounded allegations of election fraud and poor security. No major issues have been uncovered.

The Virginia Redistricting Commission has missed a final deadline to draw new state legislative maps, kicking the process to the Virginia Supreme Court.

Former President Barack Obama was in Richmond Saturday throwing his support behind Terry McAuliffe’s campaign.

Former and perhaps future Gov. Terry McAuliffe is not mincing his words on the COVID-19 vaccine, stamped the anti-vaxxer label on his opponent.

Election security has become a hot topic of discussion over the last few years. But election officials across the commonwealth have been making sure that elections, like the upcoming one for governor, are safe and secure.

Youngkin has faced a difficult dilemma from the outset of his campaign: turn out the reddest parts of the state without alienating suburbanites who have handed Democrats every statewide election since 2009.

In a meeting on Wednesday, the Virginia Redistricting Commission cancelled both of its remaining public hearings and meetings, citing a failure to agree on criteria for map drawing. Like in previous meetings, commissioners found themselves at a partisan stalemate.