The new boundaries for the House of Delegates and Senate put incumbent lawmakers in new districts, pitted some veterans against one another and created wide-open new districts.
So while all elections hold potential for change, this year “every dial is turned up to 11,” said Rich Meagher, a political analyst at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland.He pointed to a bumper crop of fresh candidates on ballots around the state, including a historic number of Black candidates.
“It does look like we’re going to have some significant growth” in the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, said state Sen. Lamont Bagby , who leads the caucus. His calculations suggest that regardless of partisan outcomes around the state, the caucus will not shrink from the 22 members it had for most of this year’s General Assembly session and is likely to grow. That’s true even though Bagby himself is facing a primary challenge from Democrat Katie Gooch, who is White.
Democrats are holding nearly twice as many primary elections as Republicans — a trend that’s held for many years. Democrats see open primaries as “good for party-building and generating energy around the winners,” said Mark J. Rozell, dean of the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.Republicans, on the other hand, “have long worried about crossover voting in a state with no party registration and have tended to prefer more closed nomination processes,” he said.
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