VPAP: Republican Delegate Tara Durant is projected to beat Matt Strickland in the Republican Primary Election for Virginia's 27th District Senate Seat. Durant was elected to the House of Delegates in 2021 and outraised her opponent three to one.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin endorsed Durant.
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Voters will head to the polls today to nominate the candidates they want to seek to advance to the General Elections in November 2023.
Both Democrats and Republicans are holding primaries for state and local races. The polls open at 6 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. Find your polling place by clicking here.
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Democrat Ben Litchfield is running for his party's nomination for the Virginia Senate District 27 seat in portions of Stafford, Spotsylvania, and Fredericksburg.
Litchfield, 36, is a consumer protection attorney who has worked at the National Credit Union Administration writing regulations governing the payday lending industry. He attended college at George Washington University and Howard University School of Law.
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Democrat Joel Griffin is running for his party's Virginia Senate District 27 seat nomination.
The district includes portions of Stafford and Spotsylvania counties and Fredericksburg.
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Tara Durant is seeking the Virginia Senate seat for District 27, which includes southern Stafford County, Spotsylvania County, and Fredericksburg.
Durant, 50, is a one-term House of Delegates member who won her 2021 election and was part of a red wave of Republican candidates who won a slim majority in the House of Delegates, as well as Glenn Youngkin, Virginia's first Republican Governor since Bob McDonnell won in 2009.
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The last day to vote early in the June 20, 2023, Primary Elections for the Republican and Democrat Party primaries is tomorrow, Saturday, June 17, 2023.
The Primary Election is on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, and you can vote at your regular polling place.
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Nikki Rattray Baldwin is running in a GOP Primary Election for the Virginia Senate 29th District seat, which includes portions of central and eastern Prince William County and a portion of North Stafford.
Baldwin is a Navy veteran, a wife of a U.S. Marine of 13 years, and the mother of a 9-year-old boy. In the Navy, Baldwin worked as an EMT, disaster search and rescue, and as a protocol officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency. She earned a Bachelor's Degree focusing on psychology and a Master's Degree in public administration.
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Mike Sienkowski, 39, is running for the GOP nomination for Stafford County Treasurer.
Sienkowski has worked for the Commissioner of the Revenue's Office (the office that determines county property values) for the past 17 years. After 17 years as a county employee, Seinkowski wants to oversee the treasurer's office (the office that produces the tax bills, mails them, and collects payment).
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Washington Post: “The last time former Virginia delegates Jennifer Carroll Foy and Hala S. Ayala campaigned, both were chasing history before each ultimately fell short.”
“Carroll Foy sought unsuccessfully in 2021 to become the first African American woman to be elected governor of any state. Ayala — who identifies as Afro-Latina, Lebanese and Irish — aimed to be the first woman of color to hold a statewide office in Virginia during her unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor that same year. In Virginia, candidates for governor and lieutenant governor run separately, not on a traditional two-person ticket.”
“Now, the two former Prince William County lawmakers are trying to return to the General Assembly. But redistricting has meant that, after years of camaraderie as onetime activists who helped energize their party when entering the House of Delegates in 2017, they are in each other’s way.”
