Abigail Spanberger defeated Republican candidate Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears to become the first female governor-elect in the commonwealth’s history. The map below shows Spanberger’s winning counties include a swath of Northern Virginia and Spotsylvania County,

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RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Democrat Abigail Spanberger will be the next governor for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Spanberger, 46, will be the first woman to serve as governor of Virginia. She first served in Virginia’s seventh district in the U.S. House of Delegates. She was the first Democrat to serve in the seventh district in more than fifty years.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Abigail Spanberger won the governor’s race in Virginia on Tuesday, defeating Republican Winsome Earle-Sears.

After big wins on election night, Democrats will have to decide whether easing requirements in the state’s ambitious climate law will be necessary to maintain Virginia’s status as the “data center capital of the world.

The NAACP has sued Virginia state election officials, accusing them of disenfranchising students by rejecting voter registration forms from students that do not include details like dormitory names, room numbers and campus mailbox information.

Homeland Security highlights dangerous illegal immigrants arrested in Virginia last week, including offenders convicted of rape, drug trafficking and domestic violence.

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