2021 Virginia Attorney General election

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2021 Virginia attorney general election
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  2017 November 2, 2021 (2021-11-02) 2025  
  Jason Miyares in November 2021.jpg Mark Herring at McAuliffe rally.jpg
Nominee Jason Miyares Mark Herring
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote1,647,1001,620,564
Percentage50.4%49.6%

2021 Virginia Attorney General election results map by county.svg
VA Attorney General 2021.svg
Miyares:     40–50%     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     >90%
Herring:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%     >90%
Tie:     40–50%     50%
     No data

Attorney General before election

Mark Herring
Democratic

Elected Attorney General

Jason Miyares
Republican

The 2021 Virginia attorney general election was held on November 2, 2021, to elect the next attorney general of Virginia. Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring attempted to win a third term. Herring initially planned to run for governor, but decided to run for re-election. Herring faced Republican nominee Jason Miyares in the general election. Herring conceded defeat at 5:02 PM EST the following day, November 3. [1] Miyares became the first Cuban-American and Hispanic to be elected to statewide office in Virginia. Miyares was later sworn in on January 15, 2022.

Contents

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Eliminated in primary

Declined

Endorsements

Mark Herring
Federal officials
State senators
State delegates
Local officials
Organizations
Unions
  • Virginia Professional Fire Fighters [13]
Jay Jones
Federal officials
Governors
State senators
State delegates
Former delegates
Local officials
Individuals
Organizations

Debates

Mark Herring and Jay Jones agreed to one debate. The debate started off with Mark Herring started off talking about his record and saying what he has done about certain cases vs what Jones was doing at the time. Jay Jones started off talking about his endorsement from Governor at the time, Ralph Northam, and claiming Herring's past didn't matter for what was happening in the present.

2021 Virginia Democratic Primary for Attorney General
No.DateHostLinkParticipants
Key:
 P Participant   A Absent   N Non-invitee   W Withdrawn
Jay JonesMark Herring*
1May 15, 2021 WTVR CBS 6 [19] PP

Issues Herring and Jones agreed on almost every issue asked to them. When the rebuttals came though, Herring would often claim that Jones didn’t support something when he was on the legislature and Jones would point to an example where they agreed on it in the past, such as a big. When Jones rebutted Herring, Jones claimed that Herring didn’t begin on the issue until it was in the political atmosphere.

Here are a couple examples below.

Support Prosecuting Price Gougers (relating to the issue of Colonial Pipeline hacking)
HerringJones
SupportsSupports
Defend the VEC that didn’t pay benefits to Virginians
HerringJones
OpposesOpposes

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered
Sample
size [lower-alpha 1]
Margin
of error
Mark
Herring
Jay
Jones
OtherUndecided
Roanoke College May 24 – June 1, 2021637 (LV)± 3.9%49%20%31%
Christopher Newport University April 11–20, 2021806 (LV)± 3.9%42%18%1%39%

Results

Results by county and independent city:
Herring
80-90%
70-80%
60-70%
50-60%
Jones
50-60%
60-70% Virginia Democratic Attorney General primary results by county, 2021.svg
Results by county and independent city:
  Herring
  •   80–90%
  •   70–80%
  •   60–70%
  •   50–60%
  Jones
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
Democratic primary results [20]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Mark Herring (incumbent) 274,736 56.63
Democratic Jay Jones 210,36543.37
Total votes485,101 100.00

Republican convention

Candidates

Nominated at convention

Defeated at convention

Declined

Results

The round-by-round results of the ranked-choice voting election Virginia 2021 GOP Attorney General Election RCV Results.gif
The round-by-round results of the ranked-choice voting election
Virginia GOP Convention, Attorney General Nominee [26]
Candidate Round 1 Round 2 Round 3
Votes  % Votes  % Votes  %
Jason Miyares 4,590 36.6% 5,297 42.2% 6,490 51.7%
Chuck Smith4,324 34.4% 4,975 39.6% 6,064 48.3%
Jack White1,872 14.9% 2,282 18.2% Eliminated
Leslie Haley1,768 14.1% Eliminated

General election

Endorsements

Mark Herring (D)
Federal officials
State senators
State delegates
Local officials
Organizations
Unions
  • Virginia Professional Fire Fighters [31]
Jason Miyares (R)
Governors
Federal officials
State senators
State delegates
Organizations

General election Debates

Mark Herring and Jason Miyares agreed to one debate. It was a town hall like event where people could ask questions about important issues.

2021 Virginia Attorney General
No.DateHostLinkParticipants
Key:
 P Participant   A Absent   N Non-invitee   W Withdrawn
Jason MiyaresMark Herring*
1October 13, 2021 Loudoun Chamber [40] PP
Most important issue
MiyaresHerring
Public SafetyProtecting Others
Agree on importance of a diverse office
MiyaresHerring
SupportSupport
Position on taking down controversial statues of Confederate leaders [41] [42] [43]
MiyaresHerring
OpposeSupport

Polling

Graphical summary
Poll sourceDate(s)
administered
Sample
size [lower-alpha 1]
Margin
of error
Mark
Herring (D)
Jason
Miyares (R)
OtherUndecided
The Trafalgar Group (R) October 29–31, 20211,081 (LV)± 3.0%47%50%1%2%
Echelon Insights (R) Archived 2021-10-29 at the Wayback Machine October 27–29, 2021611 (LV)± 4.0%47%48%5%
Roanoke College October 14–28, 2021571 (LV)± 4.7%46%45%0%9%
Washington Post/Schar School October 20–26, 20211,107 (RV)± 3.5%48%43%3% [lower-alpha 2] 6%
918 (LV)± 4.0%50%44%1% [lower-alpha 3] 4%
Christopher Newport University October 17–25, 2021944 (LV)± 3.5%48%47%5%
Suffolk University October 21–24, 2021500 (LV)± 4.4%48%45%7%
Emerson College October 22–23, 2021875 (LV)± 3.2%47%44%1%7%
co/efficient (R) [upper-alpha 1] October 20–21, 2021785 (LV)± 3.5%45%46%8%
Cygnal (R) October 19–21, 2021816 (LV)± 3.4%48%47%6%
Virginia Commonwealth University October 9–21, 2021722 (LV)± 6.4%39%35%14%12%
Christopher Newport University September 27 – October 6, 2021802 (LV)± 4.2%49%43%7%
Emerson College October 1–3, 2021620 (LV)± 3.9%46%44%1%10%
Roanoke College September 12–26, 2021603 (LV)± 4.6%47%37%0%16%
KAConsulting LLC (R) [upper-alpha 2] September 17–19, 2021700 (LV)± 3.7%43%27%1%30%
Virginia Commonwealth University September 7–15, 2021731 (LV)± 6.9%39%33%14%14%
Emerson College September 13–14, 2021778 (LV)± 3.4%47%41%2%11%
University of Mary Washington September 7–13, 20211,000 (A)± 3.1%40%37%6% [lower-alpha 4] 17%
528 (LV)± 4.1%42%46%2% [lower-alpha 5] 10%
The Trafalgar Group (R) August 26–29, 20211,068 (LV)± 3.0%43%45%13%
Monmouth University August 24–29, 2021802 (RV)± 3.5%45%43%1%11%
Christopher Newport University August 15–23, 2021800 (LV)± 3.6%53%41%0%6%
Roanoke College August 3–17, 2021558 (LV)± 4.2%45%37%1%17%
Virginia Commonwealth University August 4–15, 2021770 (RV)± 5.4%40%30%20%10%
~747 (LV)± 5.5%41%30%19%10%
JMC Analytics and Polling (R) June 9–12, 2021550 (LV)± 4.2%45%38%17%

Results

Virginia Attorney General election, 2021 [44]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Republican Jason Miyares 1,647,100 50.36% +3.80%
Democratic Mark Herring (incumbent)1,620,56449.55%-3.79%
Write-in 2,9950.09%-0.01%
Total votes3,270,659 100.00% N/A
Republican gain from Democratic

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear
  2. Neither with 2%, Would not vote with 1%, Other with 0%
  3. Neither with 1%, Other and Would not vote with 0%
  4. None/Would not vote with 4%, other candidate with 2%
  5. Other candidate with 2%, None/Would not vote with 0%
Partisan clients
  1. This poll was sponsored by Winsome Sears's campaign for Lieutenant Governor
  2. This poll was sponsored by the Presidential Coalition

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