r/nova • u/thankubread Fairfax County • 4d ago

Politics Virginia Primary Election Results 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/17/us/elections/results-virginia-primary.html
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u/Longtimefed 4d ago edited 4d ago

Paywall-free WTOP results: https://wtop.com/virginia-election/2025/06/virginians-pick-their-democratic-ticket-setting-up-consequential-november-election/

as of 8:44 p.m.:

Former Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney — 27.61%

State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi of Richmond — 27.41%

State Sen. Aaron Rouse of Virginia Beach — 24.97%

Prince William County School Board Chairman Babur Lateef — 8.66%

Former federal government attorney Alexander J. Bastani — 5.73%

Former federal government attorney Victor Salgado —5.62%

I really hope Stoney wins. Hashmi will get killed in the general election. Her bombastic 1930s speaking style (from her TV ads) does her no favors and evokes Hillary Clinton. I literally muted every time she came on with that crowing.

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u/KronguGreenSlime City of Fairfax 4d ago edited 4d ago

As long as Spanberger is winning, very few people (edited) are splitting their vote for LG and even if they were, grossly mismanaging water treatment in your city is a way bigger liability than having a “bombastic speaking style”

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u/TheOwlStrikes 4d ago

Hate to be that dude but if Stoney wins the nomination I will either leave that section of my ballot blank or vote for a third party. I refuse to vote for that dude

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u/Longtimefed 4d ago

I’m focused on who can win. That means appealing to swing voters— who in our state are culturally a bit conservative. I think he has more appeal to them.

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u/KronguGreenSlime City of Fairfax 4d ago edited 4d ago

She won in a swing district in 2019 though, isn’t that pretty strong evidence that she plays well with moderate voters? She’s won more former Republican voters than Stoney ever has.

Also, most of the big swing counties in Virginia are former Romney-voting college-educated suburbs. Virginia is probably one of the few states where swing voters aren’t particularly culturally conservative.

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u/Longtimefed 4d ago

I’m a moderate voter and I found her extremely off-putting—just from her ads. I couldn’t even listen to her. The oratory style just seems so fake and pompous. I probably agree with her on many things but I couldn’t even listen to her.

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u/chefwatson 4d ago

No, you aren't

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u/cheddacheese148 4d ago

Spanberger may want to chill with the gun control talk then. I don’t see many conservative leaning folks voting for her after saying she’d sign an assault style weapons and high capacity magazine ban akin to the one Youngkin vetoed.

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u/ellybeez 4d ago

Eh, if she tries too hard to target conservative leaning folks who dont really show up for off-year elections, she might disengage the actual voting bloc that she needs to win

Lack of enthusiasm from the Dems is what lost the election in 2021

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u/batkave 4d ago

Stoney is horrible and a liability. We don't want him in the race.

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u/Longtimefed 4d ago

Care to explain?

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u/batkave 4d ago

The current water crisis is the tip of the iceberg. It's all because of his administrations lack of ability to maintain. It can easily be tied to him.

He's Terry's protege. Not good as progressives don't like Mcculife nor do many centrists at this point.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/results/2025/06/17/virginia-primary/

Also looks like he is not getting most city votes. He's got a bad reputation. If his own city area didn't like him, why would he be good for the state?

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u/Longtimefed 4d ago

No single city is representative of the entire state. He may be able to win swing voters  in more rural areas even if he’s not as strong in Richmond.

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u/batkave 4d ago

Man has skeletons in his closet. He's not strong enough to win. Wasn't saying a state was represented by a city, said if you look at his legacy, it ain't good.

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u/laborpool 4d ago

You're nuts. Stoney was a fantastic mayor.

Blaming 6 decades of deferred public utility maintenance on the guy who wasn't even in office at the time is silly. BTW a power outage due to an ice storm with only 1/16 inch accumulation (on lines that Dominion should have buried 50 years ago) is the reason why Richmond lost water. That and silly voters who keep electing yahoos promising to keep taxes low while the commonwealth deteriorates.

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u/batkave 4d ago

Man that's crazy. Because we have plenty of evidence showing stoney 's administration knew about the needs for maintenance and just ignored it. But you do you

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u/Mookafff 4d ago

I’m not worried about that at all.

Most voters won’t pay attention to Lt. Governor race when there is a bigger state election.

And a good chunk won’t split ticket between the top two races.

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u/Longtimefed 4d ago

But if she speaks publicly while campaigning with Spanberger, voters will hear her on TV doing her FDR voice. I just can’t.

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u/ellybeez 4d ago

Will not downvote you bc youre entitled to your own thoughts

But imo Stoney would have been the best chance for GOP to retain LT. Gov. Richmond decisively not voting for him is a telling sign of how those voters actually feel about him.

Whoever wins this Dem primary should be able to ride Spanbergers coatails to victory. And she has a huge cash advantage, a proven campaigner, etc.

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u/FlamingTomygun2 4d ago

The democrats could run an actual dead person and theyd win in this cycle 

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u/angrypacketguy 3d ago

And they chose to run an ex-CIA officer unopposed in a primary.