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Virginia voters and election officials around the Commonwealth are heading into the last two weeks of its 45-day early voting stretch before the June 17th Primary Election.

The results will finalize statewide candidates for Attorney General, Lt. Governor ahead of the gubernatorial election in the fall, and decide who controls Virginia’s assembly.

After the June 17th primary is a wrap, Northern Virginia election officials and voters get a few weeks of a breather before a special election to fill the 11th Congressional District seat in Congress of Democrat Rep. Gerry Connolly, who passed away on May 21 after serving in the seat for 16 years.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced the date of Sept. 9 for the special election, which means early voting begins on Friday, July 25th after the parties hold firehouse primaries for the safe Democrat seat.

(They will be off for Labor Day weekend before early voting for the November election starts on Sept. 19th).

Ahead of the Nov. 4th, 2025 gubernatorial election, the Republican party has settled on its slate at the top of the ticket: Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is the gubernatorial nominee; conservative broadcaster and journalist John Reid is the nominee for Lt. Governor, and current Attorney General Jason Miyares is up for reelection.

Eight assembly district seats are being contested in the primary, which explains why some 65,000 (permanent) absentee ballots were deleted from the Daily Absentee List (DAL) voter data. There are no statewide Republican primary contests on the ballot.

The Democrat party has some statewide races yet to decide in the primary after it settled on its gubernatorial nominee, former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who served in Congress from the 7th Congressional District.

That leaves primary races for Lt. Governor, and Attorney General at the top of the ticket, and nine assembly seats that are contested.

According to Virginia’s Department of Elections, turnout so far for both primaries has averaged about 6% throughout early voting.

Assembly, Statewide Democrat Primary Races, Early Voting:

Democrat Primary Ballots that are ready to be counted as of June 7:

123,261 countable (the bulk of which are 82,642 mail-in and 40,568 on machine).

Republican Primary tallies so far, according to the Daily Absentee List (DAL):

10,882 countable ballots (the bulk of which are 6,729 on machine and 4,144 mail in).

See all the candidates for statewide, state house, and locality-level elections here:

https://www.elections.virginia.gov/casting-a-ballot/candidate-list.

Check with your local registrar’s office about balloting for statewide or assembly contests here:

https://vote.elections.virginia.gov/VoterInformation/PublicContactLookup.

EPEC Team is keeping tabs on the voter data throughout the primary

• Link to Summary Data (numbers only) for the Republican and Democrat primaries, broken out by localities and statehouse districts, can be viewed here:

https://digitalpollwatchers.org/files/DALTracker #