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A flurry of nominees for U.S. Congress claimed victory shortly after polls closed Tuesday night in Virginia’s rare late-summer primary election.
The results of the primary solidify Virginia’s ballot for the general election — a contest that will determine the balance of power in Congress.
Incumbent Rep. Don Beyer has defeated four challengers to secure the Democratic nomination in Congressional District 8. Beyer will bid for a seventh congressional term in November and face Republican Tony Sabio.
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Doug Ollivant has won the Republican primary in District 7 and will face first-term Democratic Rep. Eugene Vindman in what is expected to be a competitive midterm race.
Republican Dave Beckwith will run against Rep. Suhas Subramanyam with hopes of thwarting the Democratic congressman’s bid for a second term in Virginia’s heavily blue 10th District.
Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Bert Mizusawa has won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate, securing his place to challenge Democratic Sen. Mark Warner for his long-held seat in November.
Warner to face Army veteran from Northern Va.
Three Republicans, all hailing from Northern Virginia, competed for a chance to run against Warner in the general election with hopes of flipping his seat in the U.S. Senate.
Mizusawa walked away with 52.1% of the vote at the time the race was called at nearly 7:30 p.m., according to The Associated Press, far outpacing his fellow candidates David Williams, 28.7%, and Kim Farington, 19.2%.
A deeper look at primary results for US House in Northern Virginia
Vindman, a first-term Democrat, will face Ollivant, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, in what could be a tight race in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, according to the Virginia Public Access Project.
Vindman narrowly won a seat vacated by now-Gov. Abigail Spanberger, who left Congress to run for governor, in 2024. His district includes parts of Prince William, Stafford and Spotsylvania counties and Fredericksburg.
Ollivant earned 56.2% of the vote at the time of the race call just after 7:30 p.m., beating businessman Philip Harding, with 30.9%, and pastor Rick Smithers, with 12.9%, according to the Associated Press.
A group of former and current government employees ran against incumbent Rep. Don Beyer for the Democratic nomination in Virginia’s 8th District, which covers Fairfax and Arlington counties as well as the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church.
Some of the candidates argued Beyer didn’t do enough to help federal workers who lost their jobs during sweeping DOGE cuts.
But voters ultimately sided with Beyer, who held a significant advantage as the longtime incumbent. Beyer had won 65.8% of the vote when the AP called the race at 7:34 p.m., the runner-up Mo Seifeldein fell behind with just 18.9%.
Seifeldein from his position at the U.S. Department of Labor in protest of Trump’s policies. The other candidates who hopes to unseat Beyer include Michael Duffin, a foreign policy expert who was fired amid DOGE cuts; Adam Dunigan, a former CIA case officer; and Lorena Bruner a substitute teacher, according to the candidates’ websites.
Beyer, a six-term congressman, has criticized the workforce cuts and joined other lawmakers in proposing legislation that would help former and current federal workers.
In Congressional District 10, Beckwith won the Republican nomination with 72.7% of the vote, while Julie Perry earned 20.1% and Anthony Suttles earned just 5.5%, The Associated Press reported at the time it called the race.
Beckwith will run against Rep. Subramanyam, who filled a vacant congressional seat in 2025. His district includes Fauquier and Loudoun counties, parts of Prince William and Fairfax counties as well as the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park.
No primaries were held in Virginia’s 11th Congressional District, which covers parts of Fairfax County and Fairfax City. Rep. James Walkinshaw won a special election in September to replace the late Congressman Gerry Connolly, who died in May. In November, Walkinshaw will run for reelection against Republican Arthur Purves.
Fellow Democrats hope to beat Arlington incumbent for board nomination
Two Democrats are hoping to thwart Arlington County Board Chair Matt de Ferranti’s reelection bid.
Julie Farnam and James DeVita have thrown their names into the ring for the Democratic nomination to the at-large board seat. Farnam is a small business owner and DeVita is a trial lawyer, according to their campaign websites.
According to the , de Ferranti was first elected in 2018 and has twice earned the unanimous support of his colleagues to chair the board, most recently in January.
Early look at turnout
While ballots are still being tallied, polls across Northern Virginia saw low turnout early Tuesday, Â鶹¹ÙÍø’s Luke Lukert reported.
Ahead of primary day, analysts told Â鶹¹ÙÍø they expected low turnout for the vote, in part because of its odd timing.
Virginia typically holds its primary on the third Tuesday in June. But the nomination contests were pushed back as lawmakers hashed out a mid-decade redistricting proposal designed to give Democrats an upper hand in the U.S. House midterms.
That effort ended in a defeat for Virginia Democrats who hoped to redraw the state’s congressional maps to favor their party.
The sitting president’s party has historically lost seats in the midterms but President Donald Trump took steps to combat that trend last summer, asking Texas Republicans to change the state’s map to be more favorable to the GOP.
That request sparked tussles over gerrymandering across the nation as the midterms closed in, with both parties pushing for control of Congress.
Primaries generally draw out less voters than general elections and Tuesday’s contest comes as some Virginians are out of town on vacation or preparing to send students back to school.
Democrats held primaries in Arlington and Fairfax counties. Early estimates of votes show turnout was higher in those places than other parts of Northern Virginia.
Looking at Democrats in the 8th District, 2.24% of voters cast ballots Tuesday and 4.28% of voters cast early ballots. For Republicans, 0.72% cast votes on primary day and 0.80% voted early, the Fairfax County elections office
In Arlington, the 5.8% of voters cast ballots Tuesday, as of 5 p.m.
In Prince William County, about 2.3% of voters turned out to vote when combining early votes with ballots cast Tuesday, according to the office of elections.
Turnout seemed to be about the same in Loudoun County, where the 2.04% of voters cast ballots, as of 4 p.m.
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