Early voting begins Friday for Virginia’s June primary election, which includes a handful of local and Virginia House of Delegates races in addition to the governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general contests.
Voters can cast ballots from Friday, May 2, through Saturday, June 14. The primary election will take place on Tuesday, June 17.
Virginia law requires all voters to provide either an acceptable form of ID or sign an ID Confirmation Statement at the polls.
Find a detailed list of candidates running and other info you need to know below.
Virginia election dates and deadlines:
- The first day of early voting is Friday, May 2
- The deadline for voter registration is Tuesday, May 27
- You can register to vote or update an existing registration online using the Citizen Portal, linked here.
- Voters can register and vote using a provisional ballot in person after May 27 through Election Day.
- You can apply for a ballot to be mailed to you through June 6
- Your request must be received by your local registrar’s office by 5 p.m.
- You can apply for an absentee ballot online using the Citizen Portal.
- Early in-person voting ends June 14
- Election Day: June 17
Need to vote on Saturday? Voter registration offices will be open for early voting on Saturday, June 7, 2025.
Where is my voting location?
Virginia In-Person Voting: Your polling place for in-person voting is based on the address you used to register to vote. Usually, it is listed on a paper voter card mailed to voters after they register. The Virginia Department of Elections website also has a polling location lookup tool.
You can also contact your local registrar’s offices for all early voting and satellite location information.
Virginia Absentee Voting: For absentee voting, you can use the Virginia Department of Elections’ citizen portal or reach out to your voter registrar’s office directly to request an absentee ballot. If you don’t know the contact information for your voter registrar, you can look it up by locality online.
Virginia Early Voting: Early voting begins May 2 and will continue until the Saturday before the June 17 primary election. Early voting is held at your local registrar’s office or a satellite voting location in your county or city, and the dates and times for early voting may vary by locality. You can look up the location, the website and regular business hours of your local registrar’s office via a tool on the Dept. of Elections’ website.
Virginia voter ID rules:
Virginia law requires all voters to provide either an acceptable form of ID or, if providing an acceptable ID is not possible, to sign an ID Confirmation Statement at the polls. A voter who arrives at their polling place without an acceptable form of identification or who refuses to sign an ID Confirmation Statement will be given the opportunity to vote using a provisional ballot.
Virginia voter registration:
In order to vote, Virginians need to be registered. Here are the Virginia Department of Elections eligibility requirements in order to register to vote:
- Be a permanent resident of Virginia (not just someone who is here for an extended period).
- Be a U.S. citizen.
- Be 18 years old (if someone will be 18 on the day of a general election, they can vote in the primary when they are 17).
- Not be registered and planning to vote in another state.
- Must be mentally competent.
- Convicted felons must have had their voting rights restored.
If you aren’t sure of your voter registration status, you can check online here.
Before May 27, you can register to vote online at the Virginia Department of Elections portal. However, if you didn’t register to vote before May 27, you will need to follow Virginia’s same-day registration guidelines and vote using a provisional ballot. That means that you cannot register online; you will have to register in-person on Election Day at the polling place for the precinct in which you reside. For more information on same-day registration, please visit the Virginia Department of Elections page here.
Statewide Virginia races: 2025 election
Governor
Democratic U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger and Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears are set to to face off in Virginia’s gubernatorial race.
Note: Primaries only take place when two or more candidates qualify to be on the primary ballot. The general election for the governor’s race is set to take place on Nov. 4, 2025.
Lieutenant Governor
Democratic primary candidates
Alexander J. Bastani
Ghazala F. Hashmi
Babur B. Lateef
Aaron R. Rouse
Victor R. Salgado
Levar Marcus Stoney
Republican candidate
John Reid, a radio host and founder of The Virginia Council, is running as a Republican for lieutenant governor in 2025. Current Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is running for governor.
Reid is currently the only Republican candidate.
Attorney General
Democratic Primary candidates
Jay Jones
Shannon Taylor
Republican incumbent
Attorney General Jason Miyares is running unopposed for a second term.
House of Delegates races in Hampton Roads
Democratic candidates
District 89: Chesapeake and Suffolk
Karen Robins “Kacey” Carnegie
Blaizen Buckshot Bloom
Republican candidates
District 89: Chesapeake and Suffolk
Kristen M. Shannon
Michael K. “Mike” Lamonea
District 97: Chesapeake
Timothy V. Anderson
Christina M. Felder
District 70: Newport News
Hailey Louise Shupe-Dollar
Cynthia M. Scaturico
Local Hampton Roads races
Chesapeake
Sheriff: Republican primary
Wallace W. Chadwick III
Dave Rosado
Newport News
Treasurer: Democratic primary
Sanu Y. Dieng-Cooper
Derek C. Reason
Commonwealth’s attorney: Democratic primary
Howard E. Gwynn
Shannon M. Jones
Norfolk
Commonwealth’s attorney: Democratic primary
Ramin Fatehi
John F. Butler
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