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Virginia’s 2025 general election candidates are set in the off-year election after the June primary election Tuesday; absentee ballots are still being finalized this week.

In the Democrat statewide primary races, state senator Ghazala Hashmi squeaked out the nomination for lieutenant governor among a crowded field by just over 3,500 votes ahead of Levar Stoney.

Hashmi joins the top of the Democrat ticket with gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger, who left her 7th Congressional District seat in Congress to run for governor. Virginia House Delegate Jay Jones won the Democratic nomination for attorney general.

Like Spanberger, the Republican party’s gubernatorial nominee had no primary opponent. Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is the Republican gubernatorial nominee. Conservative broadcaster and journalist John Reid is the Republican nominee for Lt. Governor, and current Attorney General Jason Miyares is up for reelection. As of Tuesday, those candidates are official.

About 7.2 % of the Commonwealth’s 5.8 million active registered voters turned out for the Democrat party’s statewide and local contests, plus Republican assembly-seat primaries. During early voting, turnout averaged about 6%.

In the 89th District primary in the competitive tidewater region, Republican Mike Lamonea won his contest. He will face Democrat Karen Robins “Kacey” Carnegie in the general election in the fall.

Below are both parties’ primary breakouts of early voting, which shows which ballots are still being processed ahead of the deadline (which is Friday noon, assuming today’s Juneteenth federal holiday doesn’t add an extra day for ballots).

Here is a full voter-data breakout of Democrat primary ballot statuses for ballot types, such as number of absentee ballots that are “issued” (mailed out), and the number of ballots in “countable” state (already processed and ready to be tabulated, along with on-machine.)

Here is a full voter-data breakout of Republican primary ballot statuses for ballot types, such as number of absentee ballots that are “issued” (mailed out), and the number of ballots in “countable” state (already processed and ready to be tabulated, along with on-machine.)

Click into the colors to highlight the ballot data and voting date.

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Winners in the Republican primary races for eight assembly district seats can be seen here.

The winners of the nine Democrat assembly seat primaries and statewide races can be viewed here.

EPEC Team’s analysis of the early voting data for the Democrat ballots shows 207,978 (early voting) ballots in countable state as of today.

EPEC Team’s analysis of the early voting data for the Democrat ballots shows 207,978 (early voting) ballots in countable state as of today. As of the Tuesday Primary Virginia’s Department of Elections has the tally at 217,748 ballots.

See the breakdowns of ballot types, early in-person and Primary Day here:

https://enr.elections.virginia.gov/results/public/virginia/elections/2025-June-Democratic-Primary/stats

For the Republican assembly-seat races, the data show 15,756 Republican ballots in early countable state heading into the June 17 primary election. After Tuesday, the number of countable ballots is 16,115.

See breakout of early voting and Primary Election tallies of all the Republican assembly seat races here: https://enr.elections.virginia.gov/results/public/virginia/elections/2025-June-Republican-Primary/stats