Overview
- Abigail Spanberger defeated Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears by about 13 points, with roughly 56.6% of the vote reported late Tuesday.
- Democrats swept statewide offices with Ghazala F. Hashmi winning lieutenant governor and Jay Jones winning attorney general, and they retained legislative control.
- Ghazala F. Hashmi’s victory marks the first time a Muslim woman has been elected to a statewide office in the United States.
- Jay Jones defeated Jason Miyares to become Virginia’s first Black attorney general after controversy over violent texts surfaced in October.
- Gov. Glenn Youngkin said he will back a roughly 10-week transition for Spanberger, focus on completing the final budget, and condemned Jones’s past texts as disqualifying.