Virginia Mercury

Special election for Hashmi’s Richmond-area Senate seat set for Jan. 6

Portsmouth, has set a Jan. 6 special election to fill the soon-to-be vacant seat of Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, D-Richmond, clearing ...

Virginia GOP chairman stepping down after drastic losses in November elections

Virginia state Sen. Mark Peake said Monday he is stepping down as chairman of the Virginia Republican Party, citing a need to ...
The Beaumont Enterprise

Virginia election winners break race and gender barriers amid national scrutiny on diversity

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — As the polls closed on Tuesday across Virginia, it quickly became clear it was a night of firsts: Voters overwhelmingly elected a slate of candidates who broke race and gender ...

Column: What Virginia’s election teaches about power in numbers

Democracy requires our participation in the sustained work between elections, the Workers Circle’s Ann Toback and the Center ...

Spanberger, Democrats garner support from hard-to-reach youth voters

Youth voter turnout surged in last Tuesday’s gubernatorial election, and Democrats were the beneficiaries. And the overall preliminary voter counts closely parallel the high turnout of the 2021 ...