Virginia Democrats claim victory in special elections, holding two seats in House of Delegates [View all]
Virginia Democrats on Tuesday night claimed victory in two special elections for the House of Delegates, holding onto the seats of former Dels. Jennifer Carroll Foy, D-Prince William and Joe Lindsey, D-Norfolk.
Democrat Candi King edged Republican Heather Mitchell by about 3 percentage points as Democrats held the seat vacated by Carroll Foy, who stepped down last month to focus full time on her campaign for governor.
King is a former state legislative aide who now works in Washington as a program assistant for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Mitchell has been an aide to the Prince William County Board of Supervisors and previously was a legislative aide.
In Norfolk, Democrat Angelia Williams Graves, a member of the City Council since 2011, easily defeated Republican Sylvia Marie Bryant, an office manager at a construction firm, to win the seat vacated by Lindsey, who became a general district court judge. Graves led by 27 percentage points in unofficial returns with all precincts reporting.
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