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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.
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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.
No. | Date | Host | Link | Participants | ||||||
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Key: P Participant A Absent N Non-invitee W Withdrawn | ||||||||||
Jay Jones | Mark Herring* | |||||||||
1 | May 15, 2021 | WTVR CBS 6 | [19] | P | P |
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. 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.
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Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size [a] | Margin of error | Mark Herring | Jay Jones | Other | Undecided |
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Roanoke College [20] | May 24 – June 1, 2021 | 637 (LV) | ± 3.9% | 49% | 20% | – | 31% |
Christopher Newport University [21] | April 11–20, 2021 | 806 (LV) | ± 3.9% | 42% | 18% | 1% | 39% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Mark Herring (incumbent) | 274,736 | 56.63 | |
Democratic | Jay Jones | 210,365 | 43.37 | |
Total votes | 485,101 | 100.00 |
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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 Smith | 4,324 | 34.4% | 4,975 | 39.6% | 6,064 | 48.3% |
Jack White | 1,872 | 14.9% | 2,282 | 18.2% | Eliminated | |
Leslie Haley | 1,768 | 14.1% | Eliminated | |||
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Mark Herring and Jason Miyares agreed to one debate. It was a town hall like event where people could ask questions about important issues.
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Jason Miyares | Mark Herring* | |||||||||
1 | October 13, 2021 | Loudoun Chamber | [42] | P | P |
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Public Safety | Protecting Others |
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Support | Support |
Miyares | Herring |
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Oppose | Support |
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Poll source | Date(s) administered | Sample size [a] | Margin of error | Mark Herring (D) | Jason Miyares (R) | Other | Undecided |
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The Trafalgar Group (R) [46] | October 29–31, 2021 | 1,081 (LV) | ± 3.0% | 47% | 50% | 1% | 2% |
Echelon Insights (R) [47] | October 27–29, 2021 | 611 (LV) | ± 4.0% | 47% | 48% | – | 5% |
Roanoke College [48] | October 14–28, 2021 | 571 (LV) | ± 4.7% | 46% | 45% | 0% | 9% |
Washington Post/Schar School [49] | October 20–26, 2021 | 1,107 (RV) | ± 3.5% | 48% | 43% | 3% [b] | 6% |
918 (LV) | ± 4.0% | 50% | 44% | 1% [c] | 4% | ||
Christopher Newport University [50] | October 17–25, 2021 | 944 (LV) | ± 3.5% | 48% | 47% | – | 5% |
Suffolk University [51] | October 21–24, 2021 | 500 (LV) | ± 4.4% | 48% | 45% | – | 7% |
Emerson College [52] | October 22–23, 2021 | 875 (LV) | ± 3.2% | 47% | 44% | 1% | 7% |
co/efficient (R) [53] [A] | October 20–21, 2021 | 785 (LV) | ± 3.5% | 45% | 46% | – | 8% |
Cygnal (R) [54] | October 19–21, 2021 | 816 (LV) | ± 3.4% | 48% | 47% | – | 6% |
Virginia Commonwealth University [55] | October 9–21, 2021 | 722 (LV) | ± 6.4% | 39% | 35% | 14% | 12% |
Christopher Newport University [56] | September 27 – October 6, 2021 | 802 (LV) | ± 4.2% | 49% | 43% | – | 7% |
Emerson College [57] | October 1–3, 2021 | 620 (LV) | ± 3.9% | 46% | 44% | 1% | 10% |
Roanoke College [58] | September 12–26, 2021 | 603 (LV) | ± 4.6% | 47% | 37% | 0% | 16% |
KAConsulting LLC (R) [59] [B] | September 17–19, 2021 | 700 (LV) | ± 3.7% | 43% | 27% | 1% | 30% |
Virginia Commonwealth University [60] | September 7–15, 2021 | 731 (LV) | ± 6.9% | 39% | 33% | 14% | 14% |
Emerson College [61] | September 13–14, 2021 | 778 (LV) | ± 3.4% | 47% | 41% | 2% | 11% |
University of Mary Washington [62] | September 7–13, 2021 | 1,000 (A) | ± 3.1% | 40% | 37% | 6% [d] | 17% |
528 (LV) | ± 4.1% | 42% | 46% | 2% [e] | 10% | ||
The Trafalgar Group (R) [63] | August 26–29, 2021 | 1,068 (LV) | ± 3.0% | 43% | 45% | – | 13% |
Monmouth University [64] | August 24–29, 2021 | 802 (RV) | ± 3.5% | 45% | 43% | 1% | 11% |
Christopher Newport University [65] | August 15–23, 2021 | 800 (LV) | ± 3.6% | 53% | 41% | 0% | 6% |
Roanoke College [66] | August 3–17, 2021 | 558 (LV) | ± 4.2% | 45% | 37% | 1% | 17% |
Virginia Commonwealth University [67] | August 4–15, 2021 | 770 (RV) | ± 5.4% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 10% |
~747 (LV) | ± 5.5% | 41% | 30% | 19% | 10% | ||
JMC Analytics and Polling (R) [68] | June 9–12, 2021 | 550 (LV) | ± 4.2% | 45% | 38% | – | 17% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Republican | Jason Miyares | 1,647,100 | 50.36% | +3.80% | |
Democratic | Mark Herring (incumbent) | 1,620,564 | 49.55% | −3.79% | |
Write-in | 2,995 | 0.09% | -0.01% | ||
Total votes | 3,270,659 | 100.00% | N/A | ||
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Miyares won 6 of 11 congressional districts, including two that were represented by Democrats. [70]
District | Herring | Miyares | Representative |
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1st | 41% | 59% | Rob Wittman |
2nd | 46% | 54% | Elaine Luria |
3rd | 63% | 37% | Bobby Scott |
4th | 57% | 43% | Donald McEachin |
5th | 41% | 59% | Bob Good |
6th | 34% | 65% | Ben Cline |
7th | 45% | 55% | Abigail Spanberger |
8th | 73% | 27% | Don Beyer |
9th | 26% | 74% | Morgan Griffith |
10th | 53% | 47% | Jennifer Wexton |
11th | 68% | 32% | Gerry Connolly |
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