2025 Virginia Attorney General election

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2025 Virginia Attorney General election
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  2021 November 4, 2025 (2025-11-04)2029 
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Nominee Jason Miyares Jay Jones
Party Republican Democratic

Incumbent Attorney General

Jason Miyares
Republican



The 2025 Virginia Attorney General election will be held on November 4, 2025, to elect the attorney general of Virginia. Incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares is running for re-election.

Contents

Republican primary

Candidates

Nominee

Endorsements

Jason Miyares

Statewide officials

Results

Republican primary results
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Jason Miyares (incumbent) Unopposed
Total votes100.0

Democratic primary

Teo Armus of The Washington Post described the primary as a proxy battle between Dominion Energy and Clean Virginia, an environmental group meant to counter Dominion's influence in Virginia elections. Shannon Taylor received over $800,000 from Dominion, its largest ever contribution in a single race. [3] Jay Jones received $579,000 from Clean Virginia. [4]

Candidates

Nominee

Eliminated in primary

Declined

  • Steve Descano, Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney (2020–present) (endorsed Jones) [7]

Endorsements

Jay Jones
U.S. Representatives
Statewide officials
State legislators
Local officials
Organizations
Shannon Taylor
Statewide officials
State legislators
Labor unions
Organizations

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered
Sample
size [a]
Margin
of error
Jay
Jones
Shannon
Taylor
Undecided
Global Strategy Group (D) [19] [A] March 11–13, 2025600 (LV)± 4.0%15%25%60%

Results

Results by county and independent city:
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Jones
50-60%
60-70%
70-80%
Taylor
50-60%
60-70%
Tie
50% 2025 Virginia Democratic attorney general primary election results map by county.svg
Results by county and independent city:
  Jones
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
  •   70–80%
  Taylor
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
  Tie
  •   50%
2025 Virginia Attorney General Democratic primary [20]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Jay Jones 252,976 51.11%
Democratic Shannon Taylor 241,96948.89%
Total votes494,945 100.00%

General election

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
State Navigate [21] Likely D (flip)August 15, 2025
Sabato's Crystal Ball [22] Lean D (flip)August 21, 2025

Post-primary endorsements

Jason Miyares (R)
Statewide officials
Local officials
Organizations

Polling

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered
Sample
size [a]
Margin
of error
Jason
Miyares (R)
Jay
Jones (D)
OtherUndecided
co/efficient (R) [33] August 23–26, 20251,025 (LV)± 3.06%44%45%11%
Roanoke College [34] [35] August 11–15, 2025702 (LV)± 4.3%38%41%21%
Wick Insights [36] July 9–11, 20251,000 (LV)± 3.0%41%48%11%
Virginia Commonwealth University [37] June 19 – July 3, 2025764 (RV)± 4.2%37%46%3% [b] 13%
Hypothetical polling

Jason Miyares vs. Generic Democrat

Poll sourceDate(s)
administered
Sample
size [a]
Margin
of error
Jason
Miyares (R)
Generic
Democrat
Undecided
co/efficient (R) [38] [B] June 8–10, 20251,127 (LV)± 3.1%44%44%12%

Results

2025 Virginia Attorney General general election [39]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Jason Miyares (incumbent)
Democratic Jay Jones
Write-in
Total votes

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear
  2. "Wouldn't vote" with 2%, "Refused" with 1%, and "Someone else" with 0%

Partisan clients

  1. Poll sponsored by Taylor's campaign
  2. Poll sponsored by Founders Insight

References

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  2. Diaz, Olivia (November 18, 2024). "Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares will seek reelection, quelling talk of a gubernatorial bid". Associated Press. Retrieved November 18, 2024.
  3. Armus, Teo (June 18, 2025). "Analysis | 5 takeaways from Virginia's primary election results". The Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286. Archived from the original on June 18, 2025. Retrieved June 18, 2025.
  4. Sledge, Matt (June 14, 2025). "Virginia AG Hopeful Was Outraising His Rival — Then Dominion Energy Tipped the Scale". The Intercept. Retrieved July 8, 2025.
  5. Mirshahi, Dean (November 12, 2024). "Former Delegate Jay Jones launches bid for Virginia attorney general". WRIC-TV . Retrieved November 12, 2024.
  6. Mirshahi, Dean (June 19, 2024). "Henrico's top prosecutor Shannon Taylor kicks off 2025 Virginia attorney general run". WRIC-TV . Retrieved June 20, 2024.
  7. 1 2 Jarvis, Brandon (May 6, 2024). "Descano opts to endorse Jones instead of running for attorney general". Virginia Scope.
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  17. Jarvis, Brandon (April 5, 2025). "Shannon Taylor announces Q1 fundraising haul". Virginia Scope. Retrieved April 22, 2025.
  18. "EMILYs List Endorses State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi for Lieutenant Governor and Shannon Taylor for Attorney General of Virginia". Blue Virginia. December 12, 2024. Retrieved January 3, 2025.
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Official campaign websites