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Unlike other state governors, Virginia governors are not allowed to serve consecutive terms. They have been barred from immediate re-election since the adoption of Virginia's second constitution, in 1830. However, a former governor is permitted to run for a second term in a future election.
The statewide elected officials are governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general. All three officers are separately elected four-year terms in years following presidential elections (1997, 2001, 2005, etc.) and take office in January of the following year. Virginia is one of only five states that elects its state
The 2025 Virginia gubernatorial election will be held on November 4, 2025. 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.
She has previously run for Congress and governor of Virginia and was censured by the Virginia Senate in 2021 for voicing support for Jan. 6 protesters. Many others have also announced they’re ...
Virginia's upcoming elections for control of the governor's mansion and the state Legislature will be used as an interpretive lens to predict where the country is headed politically.
The office of lieutenant governor was created in 1851. [9] Prior to that a Council of State existed; it chose from among its members a president who would be "lieutenant-governor" and would act as governor when there was a vacancy in that office. [1] [10] The governor and the lieutenant governor are elected at the same time but not on the same ...
In Virginia, governor and lieutenant governor candidates are elected separately. Riggleman was elected to represent Virginia’s 5th Congressional District in 2018 but was ousted in a GOP ...
Eligible to serve as emergency interim governor if 1–5 are vacant 6 List of 5 people named by the governor [40] State Treasurer Rachael Eubanks: 7 Fmr. Lieutenant Governor John Cherry (D) 8 Wayne County Exec. Warren Evans (D) 9 Businessman Gary Torgow: 10 Fmr. U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D)