RICHMOND — Tuesday was a good night for Democrats. Abigail Spanberger, a former U.S. representative and federal law enforcement officer, will be Virginia’s first woman governor. State Sen. Ghazala ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — As the polls closed on Tuesday across Virginia, it quickly became clear it was a night of firsts: Voters overwhelmingly elected a slate of candidates who broke race and gender ...

Virginia House Speaker Don Scott has set a Jan. 6 special election in House District 77 after Del. Mike Jones stepped down to ...

From Patrick Henry to Glenn Youngkin, Virginia has had 74 governors. Democrat Abigail Spanberger will be the 75th - and the first woman to hold the position. Spanberger, a former Congresswomen whose ...

Democratic gubernatorial nominee and former U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger wasn’t the only statewide candidate who made history on Tuesday night. The first woman to lead the commonwealth’s government ...

Virginia became the 33rd state to elect a female governor, but the recent race was a rare instance where the two candidates were both women — just the 11th time in the U.S. since 1986.