Local Government
Primary results for Warren County
Republican Ed Gillespie narrowly won the party’s nomination in Virginia’s race for governor, edging past Corey Stewart, a former Trump state campaign chairman who made preserving Confederate history a top campaign issue.
While Gillespie won with 44% of the vote statewide to Stewart’s 43% (with Frank Wagner garnering 14%), that was not the case in Warren County. Stewart, in fact, received 55.1% of the votes in Tuesday’s primary, with Gillespie garnering 36.7% of votes cast, and Wagner, coming in a distant third, with 8.2% of total votes.
Photo/ Jarred Hill
In the Lt. Governor’s Race, Fauquier attorney Jill Vogel received about 9,000 more votes than her closest competitor, Bryce Reeves, finishing with 43% of the vote. Reeves earned 40% of votes in the primary, with Glenn Davis coming in a distant third, with 17% of the vote.
Warren County results for the race: Vogel 65%; Reeves 24%; Davis 11%.
On the Democratic ticket, Lt. Governor Ralph Northam emerged victorious, with 55.9% of votes statewide to challenger Tom Perriello’s, 44.1%. In Warren County, Northam took 50.2% of votes cast, to Perriello’s 49.8%.
Regarding the race for Lt. Governor, Justin Fairfax drew 49% of the vote across the Commonweatlh; Susan Platt earned 39% and Gene Rossi was a distant third, with only 12% of the votes cast for him. Warren County’s voting pattern did not fall in line with the rest of the state, with Susan Platt taking 578 votes, or 54% of votes cast; Fairfax received 356 votes, or 33% and Rossi took 133 votes, or 12%.
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 7.
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