{"id":1053634,"date":"2025-06-18T13:50:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T17:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1053634"},"modified":"2025-06-20T13:51:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T17:51:03","slug":"icymi-voters-energized-for-critical-fall-elections-following-recordbreaking-voter-turnout-in-va-democratic-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-voters-energized-for-critical-fall-elections-following-recordbreaking-voter-turnout-in-va-democratic-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Voters Energized for Critical Fall Elections Following Recordbreaking Voter Turnout in VA Democratic Primary\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ahead of November elections, Virginia Democrats are touting a historic slate of Democratic nominees \u2014 one of the largest ever fielded in state history. Yesterday\u2019s elections also saw the highest Democratic early voting turnout in a primary this year \u2014 a major show of voters\u2019 enthusiasm to elect Democratic candidates heading into November. From candidates running to recordbreaking Democratic turnout, Virginians have sent a message to the nation that they are ready to hold Trump and Republicans accountable for their dangerous, cost-hiking agenda.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read the coverage below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/richmond\/2025\/06\/16\/record-early-voting-virginia-dems\">Axios Richmond<\/a>: <strong>\u201cVirginia Democrats set early voting record ahead of 2025 primaries\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cVirginia Democrats saw their highest early voting turnout in a primary this year, with some of the greatest number of votes coming from Richmond-area districts. <\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs of June 15 \u2014 the day after early voting wrapped up \u2014 over 204,500 Virginians had cast early ballots, per the Virginia Public Access Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMore than 92%, or over 189,000, were in the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThat&#8217;s nearly 65,000 more votes than the votes recorded for the Democratic primary in 2021, per VPAP.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2025\/06\/15\/virginia-primary-elections-democrats-trump\/\">Washington Post<\/a>: <strong>\u201cNearly 158,000 people had cast votes in Democratic primaries as of Thursday \u2014 up from 124,000 at the same point in Democratic primaries four years ago, <\/strong>when the party had a hotly contested, five-way primary for governor, according to analysis of the latest available data by the Virginia Public Access Project. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThe totals also show a marked surge from a year ago, <\/strong>when about 120,000 voters cast ballots in a Democratic presidential primary.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alxnow.com\/2025\/06\/17\/heres-the-latest-turnout-numbers-in-todays-democratic-primary-in-alexandria\/\">ALX Now<\/a>: \u201cThe city can expect to see a turnout of 9-13% today, according to Angie Turner, the city\u2019s registrar and director of elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018If you look back historically, in 2013 we did have a June Democratic primary for the same races, lieutenant governor and attorney general,\u2019 Turner said. <strong>\u2018In that election, we were right at about 6%, so we\u2019ve already exceeded that, because we are at a total of 8.67% as of noon.\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bluevirginia\/status\/1935322039872799177\">Blue Virginia on X<\/a>: \u201cIn the end, turnout for yesterday&#8217;s VA Dem primaries will be over 470k. Which is excellent, actually, relative to 2021, 2017, 2013, etc., esp. in that there was no gov primary on the ballot.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of November elections, Virginia Democrats are touting a historic slate of Democratic nominees \u2014 one of the largest ever fielded in state history. Yesterday\u2019s elections also saw the highest Democratic early voting turnout in a primary this year \u2014 a major show of voters\u2019 enthusiasm to elect Democratic candidates heading into November. From candidates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ICYMI: Voters Energized for Critical Fall Elections Following Recordbreaking Voter Turnout in VA Democratic Primary\u00a0 - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-voters-energized-for-critical-fall-elections-following-recordbreaking-voter-turnout-in-va-democratic-primary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-18T17:50:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-20T17:51:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shelby Reese\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-voters-energized-for-critical-fall-elections-following-recordbreaking-voter-turnout-in-va-democratic-primary\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-voters-energized-for-critical-fall-elections-following-recordbreaking-voter-turnout-in-va-democratic-primary\/\",\"name\":\"ICYMI: Voters Energized for Critical Fall Elections Following Recordbreaking Voter Turnout in VA Democratic Primary\u00a0 - 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