{"id":28177,"date":"2026-08-05T05:46:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T00:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=28177"},"modified":"2026-08-05T05:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T00:46:31","slug":"virginia-2026-live-primary-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=28177","title":{"rendered":"Virginia 2026 live primary election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">Polls closed in Virginia&#8217;s primaries for the U.S. Senate and House at 7 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Virginia does not hold a primary if only one candidate or no candidate qualifies for the ballot, meaning only three House districts in the state held primaries and that incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Warner &#8212; the only Democratic candidate running &#8212; did not have a primary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Several Republicans are running against Warner in the general election, with business leader<!-- -->\u00a0<!-- -->Kim Farnington, retired Maj. Gen.<!-- -->\u00a0<!-- -->Bert Mizusawa<!-- -->\u00a0<!-- -->and<!-- -->\u00a0<!-- -->Lt. Col.<!-- -->\u00a0<!-- -->David Williams, who is in the United States Marine Corps Reserves,<!-- -->\u00a0<!-- -->in the Republican Senate primary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In Virginia\u2019s 7th Congressional District, Republicans<!-- -->\u00a0<!-- -->retired U.S. Army Lt. Col.<!-- -->\u00a0<!-- -->Douglas Ollivant,<!-- -->\u00a0<!-- -->businessman<!-- -->\u00a0<!-- -->Philip Harding<!-- -->\u00a0<!-- -->and<!-- -->\u00a0<!-- -->construction business owner Rick Smithers appeared on the ballot and whoever wins the primary will go on to challenge Democratic incumbent Rep. Eugene Vindman in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In Virginia\u2019s 8th Congressional District, several Democrats look to defeat longtime Rep. Don Beyer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Virginia\u2019s 2nd Congressional District, one of the most competitive House races this cycle, didn&#8217;t have a primary &#8212; with candidates already locked in. Incumbent GOP Rep. Jen Kiggans faces a rematch with former Democratic Rep. Elaine Luria, who held the same seat from 2019 to 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">See live election<!-- -->\u00a0<!-- -->results<!-- -->\u00a0<!-- -->after polls close.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls closed in Virginia&#8217;s primaries for the U.S. Senate and House at 7 p.m. EST. Virginia does not hold a primary if only one candidate or no candidate qualifies for the ballot, meaning only three House districts in the state held primaries and that incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Warner &#8212; the only Democratic candidate running&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.abcnewsfe.com\/a\/1b6f2977-f819-45c1-84a9-faf8c7215950\/virginia-capitol-as-gmh-260708_1783543671500_hpMain_16x9.jpeg?w=1600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}