A special election is underway in Virginia’s 17th House District following the resignation of Del. Mark Sickles. Virginia House Speaker Don Scott formally called the election after Sickles stepped down to join Gov.

Chesterfield County voters can cast their ballot to decide new legislators representing them in the Virginia Senate and House of Delegates starting today.

In governor’s races, higher spending has often lined up with winning campaigns. In all but one of the last seven elections, the candidate who spent the most money won. Democrats outspent Republicans in five of those seven races, according to an analysis published by the Virginia Public Access Project.

Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger on Tuesday announced two additional cabinet appointments, tapping longtime Del. Mark Sickles, D-Fairfax, to serve as Virginia’s next secretary of finance and public administrator Traci Deshazor as her secretary of administration,

In Virginia, where Democrats are talking about an early 2026 redistricting, Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger carried eight of 11 congressional districts.

Politics Honors students fanned out across Charlottesville to conduct research on voter attitudes and behavior.