Virginia's special election between Whitson and Walkinshaw could provide insights into the upcoming governor's race between Sears and Spanberger.

This year’s general election will decide the state’s next governor. Former Democratic congresswoman Abigail Spanberger is running against Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in a race that will produce Virginia’s first woman governor.

Democrat James Walkinshaw wins with 75% of the vote, vows "this is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump’s reckless agenda.”

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Fairfax County Supervisor James Walkinshaw defeated Republican Stewart Whitson, a government policy think tank director, this week in the special election for Virginia’s 11th congressional

Voters in Virginia’s 11th District will vote Tuesday in a special election to fill the seat of the late Democratic Rep. Gerald E. Connolly.

Democrat James Walkinshaw will win a special election in Virginia’s 11th congressional district, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, bolstering Democratic numbers in the House and cutting down on an already slim Republican majority.

The 11th District, which includes Fairfax City as well as most of Fairfax County outside the Beltway, voted for Kamala Harris over Trump last November by 34 points.

Democrats easily won back one of their three vacant congressional seats, with James Walkinshaw trouncing his GOP foe, Stewart Whitson, in a northern Virginia special election Tuesday.

Democrat James Walkinshaw won the special election for Virginia’s 11th District to succeed the late Democratic Rep. Gerald E. Connolly.

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order on Friday designed to further enhance the security of the Commonwealth’s elections.

Democrat James Walkinshaw, a politician with experience working on Capitol Hill, has won a special election to be the next U.S. House representative of the Virginia district home to the state’s most populous county.