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Glenn Allen Youngkin (/ ˈ j ʌ ŋ k ɪ n / YUNG-kin; [1] born December 9, 1966) is an American businessman and politician serving as the 74th governor of Virginia since 2022. A member of the Republican Party, he spent 25 years at the private-equity firm The Carlyle Group, where he became co-CEO in 2018. He resigned from the position in 2020 to ...
The 2025 Virginia gubernatorial election will be held on November 4, 2025, to elect the governor of Virginia. Incumbent Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin will be ineligible to run for re-election, as the Constitution of Virginia prohibits the state's governors from serving consecutive terms. Primary elections will take place on June 17, 2025. [1]
This two-round election took place alongside other 2023 Chicago elections, including races for City Council, city clerk, city treasurer, and police district councils. The election was officially nonpartisan , with winner Brandon Johnson being elected to a four-year term which began on May 15.
Youngkin narrowly beat former Gov. Terry McAuliffe to win the Virginia governor’s mansion in the first major election since President Biden ousted Trump last year.
When Youngkin won the Virginia gubernatorial election in 2021, he used a unique strategy to focus on independent swing voters in the suburbs rather than the devout MAGA base.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin—who won as a Republican. Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyThere’s more than one way to skin a cat, and there’s more than one way to own ...
After winning the election, Youngkin said that he would use an executive action to withdraw Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a regional carbon cap-and-trade market. Youngkin has called the initiative a "carbon tax" and has stated that leaving the initiative would save ratepayers an average of about $50 a year. [278]
The 2019 Chicago elections took place in two rounds on February 26, 2019, and April 2, 2019. Elections were held for Mayor of Chicago, City Clerk of Chicago, City Treasurer of Chicago, and all 50 members of the Chicago City Council. The candidates who won in these elections were inaugurated on May 20, 2019. [5]