(C) Virginia Mercury This story was originally published by Virginia Mercury and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Primary Day 2025 • Virginia Mercury [1] ['Staff Report', 'More From Author', '- June', '.Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Coauthors.Is-Layout-Flow', 'Class', 'Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus', 'Display Inline', '.Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Avatar', 'Where Img', 'Height Auto Max-Width'] Date: 2025-06-17 June 17 is primary day in Virginia, when voters will select Democratic nominees for lieutenant governor and attorney general and weigh in on House of Delegates hopefuls and local candidates. Republicans aren’t having a statewide primary, and their ticket of executive branch nominees is set. For the first time in decades, Democrats are running candidates in all 100 House of Delegates races. Three contenders — Republican incumbent Jason Miyares, and Democrats Jay Jones and Shannon Taylor — are aiming to become Virginia’s next attorney general. Seven contenders are vying to become Virginia’s next lieutenant governor: Republican John Reid and Democrats Alex Bastani, Ghazala Hashmi, Babur Lateef, Aaron Rouse, Victor Salgado and Levar Stoney. Learn more about statewide candidates’ priorities by reviewing their responses to our lieutenant governor and attorney general questionnaires, and check out key House races to watch here. Polls open at 6 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. If you’re in line when polls close, you can still vote. You’ll need to present an acceptable form of identification to vote, but if you don’t have one, you can cast a provisional ballot. Use this Virginia Department of Elections tool to find your polling place. Check back here throughout the day for updates. 11:26 a.m.: Voters slowly trickled in to Hermitage High School in Henrico Tuesday morning, where election officers say primary day is off to a slow start.Henrico resident Adam Ballantyne cast ballots for the candidates he felt could address important issues like public safety, education and boosting civic engagement. Ballantyne said “police reform was a big thing for me,” and added that he was also looking for leadership that could help citizens prepare for and weather emergencies that impact public health, like the water crisis that left Richmond without drinking water for days in January. “I had a lot of problems with the way that they dealt with the water (in) downtown Richmond, so someone, a candidate that’s going to make sure we’re okay in Henrico, (is) something I want to look for.” Education reform is “very important to me as well,” Ballantyne said. “We really need to focus on that, especially with the way some things are going through the country right now.” He also highlighted voter engagement as a factor he’s watching closely. “Well, I feel like it’s pretty shocking to me how low the voter participation is just in general for what I’m seeing around the country. So I feel like as a young person, it’s my duty to go out and go and make sure (I vote). Cause I really am a little bit unhappy that we’re so outnumbered by the Boomer generation, so I feel like it’s very important, as someone in the younger generation, (that I) at least try and make my voice heard as much as I can do it.” Previous coverage: • Virginia Primary Preview: 10 House of Delegates contests to watch Tuesday • The Virginia Mercury’s 2025 elections questionnaire: lieutenant governor • The Virginia Mercury’s 2025 elections questionnaire: attorney general • Miyares leans in on law-and-order message ahead of 2025 election • Kilgore, Va. House GOP members slam Spanberger’s newly unveiled energy plan • Democrats reach historic goal: A full slate in Virginia House races • Women candidates pack Virginia’s House of Delegates elections, tee up historic governor’s race • Herrity bows out of LG race, setting Virginia’s GOP ticket for 2025 [END] --- [1] Url: https://virginiamercury.com/2025/06/17/primary-day-2025/ Published and (C) by Virginia Mercury Content appears here under this condition or license: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/virginiamercury/