There were no huge surprise results in the primaries held in Northern Virginia on Tuesday, although one of the commonwealth’s better-known conservative Republicans is in danger of losing his race to someone claiming he’s not conservative enough.
All results come from the Virginia Department of Elections website and are unofficial.
U.S. Senate
Hung Cao, a veteran and unsuccessful challenger to Jennifer Wexton’s U.S. House seat in 2022, appears to have cruised to an easy victory in the Republican U.S. Senate primary, getting nearly 62 percent of the vote in a five-candidate race. He’ll take on incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine, who was unopposed in the Democratic primary.
U.S. House District 7
(Parts of Spotsylania, Stafford, and Prince William counties)
Eugene Vindman, a former Army colonel and brother of whistleblower Alexander Vindman, whose revelations led to the first impeachment of then-President Donald Trump, has apparently won the nomination for the Democratic slot with 49 percent of the vote in a seven-candidate field that included former delegate Elizabeth Guzman (15 percent), Del. Briana Sewell (13 percent), and county supervisors Andrea O. Bailey (12 percent), and Margaret A. Franklin (6 percent).
On the Republican side, Army veteran Derrick Anderson is ahead of five other candidates with 44 percent of the vote; former Navy SEAL Cameron Hamilton is in second with 37 percent. The winners will face off in November to succeed Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger, who is not running for reelection but is running for governor next year.
U.S. House District 10
(Fauquier and Loudoun counties, parts of Fairfax and Prince William counties, Manassas, Manassas Park)
Businessman Mike Clancy has a commanding lead on the Republican side, with 64 percent of the vote in a four-candidate race.
State Sen. Suhas Subramanyam leads the Democratic race with 30 percent of the vote in a 12-candidate field that included notables such as Del. Dan Helmer (27 percent), former Virginia education secretary Atif Qarni (10.6 percent), state Sen. Jennifer Boysko (9 percent), former House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn (9 percent), and Del. Michelle Lopes Maldonado (3 percent).
Alexandria
Alyia Gaskins won the Democratic primary for mayor. She’ll almost certainly be elected the city’s first Black woman mayor in November. Read more about the Alexandria primary.
Arlington County
JD Spain is in the lead with 32 percent in the ranked-choice primary to succeed Chair Libby Garvey, who is retiring.
Good, McGuire in battle
The race is still too close to call in the Republican race in Virginia’s 5th House District. Bob Good, the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, slightly trails his challenger, state Sen. John McGuire. While Good has been known as a hardliner in Congress for years, he initially endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for the Republican presidential nomination. That led to a McGuire endorsement from former president Donald Trump, still the single biggest factor in Republican politics.
Good traveled to New York to support Trump during his trial, in which the former president was convicted of 34 felonies last month, but it may not have been enough: McGuire leads by 315 votes (50.25 percent to 49.75 percent) in unofficial tallies.
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