New Jersey's and Virginia's off-year gubernatorial elections in 2025 offer them their first chances to get off the mat. Both states have become reliably blue in federal races, but President-elect Donald Trump narrowed his margins in each state,

“Absentee voting is a great option that allows Virginians to participate in the upcoming election even if they are unable to make it to the polls on Election Day. Virginia voters can find everything they need to know about the upcoming election at vote.virginia.gov ,” said Edgardo Cortés, Virginia’s Commissioner of Elections.

Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin will release a video ad Tuesday inviting the countless new workers and officials in the second Trump administration to settle in his state, versus the District of Columbia and neighboring Maryland.

Democrat JJ Singh won a firehouse primary in Loudoun County to face Republican Ram Venkatachalam in a Jan. 7 special election for an open House of Delegates seat.

They're known as party canvasses or unassembled caucuses or sometimes firehouse primaries. They nominate candidates in a process that is run by party leaders rather than election officials. They rarely happen for regularly scheduled elections because of requirements for participation of overseas and military voters.

At 27, Samirah was the youngest member of the General Assembly when he entered the House of Delegates in 2019. He told Radio IQ that win was a result of generational change in politics, and his primary loss in 2021 was the result of that same generational change not taking root.

Saturday’s election is part of a flurry of nominating contests set in motion when state Sen. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Loudoun) won the 10th Congressional District seat.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) endorsed Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R) for governor on Monday, ahead of the state’s gubernatorial race in 2025. “Winsome has been an outstanding Lt.

Virginia State Sen. Aaron Rouse along with state House Dels. Kelly Convirs-Fowler, Alex Askew and Michael Feggans are backing an effort to formalize Virginia Beach’s district-based election

Former President Donald Trump’s return to the White House following the Nov. 5 election is already sending ripples through Virginia politics and setting the stage for an intense 2025 election cycle in the commonwealth.

The overall 2024 turnout rate was just over 69%, the lowest for a presidential election since 2000, according to ELECT. That year George W. Bush and Al Gore were on the ballot.

The online panel was hosted by the Virginia Public Access Project and the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.