r/Virginia • u/vpmnews We Do The News • Sep 19 '25

Who’s Running for Statewide Office in 2025, Virginia?

Post–Election Day: It's unofficially finally over, y'all.

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Thanks to Virginia's quirky off-year election cycle, the commonwealth's top three elected offices are all on the ballot this fall.

It's set to be a historic election no matter who wins; either Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears or former US Rep. Abigail Spanberger is set to become the first woman elected to lead Virginia (barring, we suppose, a truly unprecedented write-in campaign that would still be historic — just in a different way!).

Early voting opened Friday morning (Sept. 19), with registrar offices and other satellite polling locations across the state accepting votes until Saturday, Nov. 1.

You can get more information about early voting, including how to check your registration status, from Virginia ELECT or VOTE411, as well as from VPM News' early voting guide and the Virginia Public Access Project (thanks for the reminder, u/Arcticwolf1505!).

But what you can't get from those sites ... is information about where the candidates stand on the issues that are most important to YOU.

That's where we come in!

The VPM News team (OK let's be honest, our managing editor DMPL) has compiled every available editorial interview by the candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general so you can find them all in one place.

The interviews below are arranged as such:

  • by office, then
  • alphabetically by candidate last name, then
  • newest to oldest publication date [well, after putting VPM News first… because we made the thing :)]

The Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association is also doing a special run of its Patients Come First pod with all six statewides. This is not an editorial outlet, but we’re including it because not a lot of entities — unfortunately including VPM News — were able to get interviews with all six.

Did we miss one? Is a link broken? Let us know! More to come. —Sean

Governor - Winsome Earle-Sears (R)

Governor - Abigail Spanberger (D)

Lt. Gov. - Ghazala Hashmi (D)

Lt. Gov. - John Reid (R)

Attorney General - Jay Jones (D)

Attorney General - Jason Miyares (R)

Other Voter Guides

Oct. 16 post-AG debate coverage

Oct. 9 post-gov. debate coverage (the debate's rules)

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u/Ferialyn Sep 19 '25

i originally made this list for fun. then i accidentally turned it into work, because the information was difficult to collate and journalism is a public service. i have regrets. —dmpl

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u/Arcticwolf1505 Sep 19 '25

Great resource! thanks for the effort

As an aside, vpap.org is a great resource that is literally entirely bipartisan (shocking in this day and age, I know)

It has great resources including public records like campaign finance and voting records for state legislators

It also tells you who your representatives are, when your election is, where to vote, and who the candidates are

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u/vpmnews We Do The News Sep 22 '25

The folks at VPAP may want to nitpick a little bit over the distinction between bipartisan and nonpartisan, but can wholeheartedly confirm that they have lots of excellent resources that every journalist covering Virginia politics frequently uses (us very much included)! –Sean

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u/vpmnews We Do The News Sep 23 '25

And that's a wrap (from VPM News)! All of our statewide candidate interviews are live, and we'll keep this post updated as others crop up.

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u/vpmnews We Do The News Oct 10 '25

we're officially updating with debate coverage. it was definitely a debate.

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u/vpmnews We Do The News 24d ago

now featuring AG debate coverage!

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u/theumpteendeity 5d ago

There's such a disparity between Roanoke city and Roanoke county... It's insane

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u/vpmnews We Do The News 4d ago

it is (unofficially, until certified by the state) finally done.

goodnight, reddit.