Virginia 2025 Election Results

Virginia held its general election on November 4, 2025, deciding 100 legislative seats and 3 statewide offices led by the governorship. No chamber changed party control. The Senate was not up for regular election this cycle.

Highlights

• Democrats swept the three statewide offices and grew their House majority to 64-36, the party's biggest since 1989. With the Senate they already held, that gave them a trifecta in Richmond.
• Abigail Spanberger (D) beat Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R) by about 15 points to become the first woman to lead the commonwealth, with the largest Democratic share since 1961. Spanberger aimed her economic message at Trump's Department of Government Efficiency and the federal shutdown, and their toll on a state with several hundred thousand federal employees. Earle-Sears leaned on attacks over transgender issues. Northern Virginia supplied about 88% of Spanberger's margin. Cardinal News found the win looked bigger than Democratic gains alone would explain because the Republican vote fell.
• In the lieutenant governor's race, Ghazala Hashmi (D) beat John Reid (R) by about 12 points to become the first Muslim woman elected statewide in the U.S. Jay Jones (D) unseated Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) by nearly 7 points to become Virginia's first Black attorney general, despite his 2022 texts suggesting the then-House Speaker should get "two bullets to the head." The delegate who received those texts, Carrie Coyner (R), lost her own seat in District 75 to Lindsey Dougherty (D).
• All 13 House seats that changed hands went from Republicans to Democrats. Every flip but one unseated a Republican incumbent; the exception was open District 89, won by Kacey Carnegie (D). The ousted Republicans included two who had won Democratic seats in 2021: Aijalon Cordoza (R), who lost to Virgil Thornton (D) in District 86, and Kim Taylor (R), who lost to Kim Adams (D) in District 82. The tightest flips:
  • John McAuliff (D) beat Geary Higgins (R) by about 850 votes in District 30.
  • Mark Downey (D) beat Chad Green (R) by about 1,300 votes in District 69.
  • Nicole Cole (D) beat Del. Bobby Orrock (R), the chamber's longest-serving member, by about 1,600 votes in District 66.
  The closest race overall was a Republican hold in District 34, where Tony Wilt (R) held on by fewer than 300 votes over Andrew Payton (D), who declined to seek a recount.

Legislature

• House of Delegates (100 seats): 51 D, 49 R before the election, 64 D, 36 R after; control stayed with Democrats.
• Senate (40 seats): 21 D, 19 R before the election, 21 D, 19 R after; control stayed with Democrats.

Statewide races

Legislative races