Prince William Times 11/04/2021

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SPORTS: Colgan field hockey makes states, James Bricker is new AD at Forest Park. Pages 12-13

November 4, 2021 | Vol. 20, No. 44 | www.princewilliamtimes.com | $1.00 Covering Prince William County and surrounding communities, including Gainesville, Haymarket, Dumfries, Occoquan, Quantico and the cities of Manassas and Manassas Park.

Democrats sweep Prince William-area state House races By Daniel Berti

Times Staff Writer

PHOTO BY DOUG STROUD

Glenn Youngkin greets a crowd in Old Town Manassas in mid-October.

Youngkin leads a GOP comeback in Virginia By Daniel Berti

Times Staff Writer

Republicans have won the race for Virginia governor and lieutenant governor and recaptured a majority in the Virginia House of Delegates after a strong showing in rural and suburban Virginia on Tuesday, Nov. 2. Glenn Youngkin will be the next governor of Virginia and Winsome Sears will be the next lieutenant governor. Republicans will have a 51-49 majority in the Virginia House of Delegates. The race for attorney general between Del. Jason Miyares (R) and Attorney General Mark Herring (D) remained too close to call as of Wednesday morning. Youngkin, 54, will be the first Republican to serve as Virginia governor since former governor Bob McDonnell was elected in 2009. Sears will be the first woman of color to serve in the state’s second-highest elected post. Unofficial results showed Youngkin leading his Democratic opponent, former governor Terry McAuliffe, by more than 70,000 votes and Sears leading Democratic nominee Del. Hala Ayala (51st) by 59,000 votes as of Wednesday morning.

GOP makes a comeback in statewide races GOVERNOR:

Glenn Youngkin with 50.68% of the vote.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR:

Winsome Sears with 50.82% of the vote.

ATTORNEY GENERAL

Del. Jason Miyares leading with 50.48% of the vote.

See YOUNGKIN, page 6

Prince William County Democrats won all eight House of Delegates seats in the county by 8 points or more on Election Day, continuing the county’s recent trend from red to blue that began in 2017. The county posted record turnout for a governor’s race on Tuesday with 172,000 votes, or about 56%. Democratic former governor Terry McAuliffe carried the county with 58% of the vote over Republican Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin, but McAuliffe lost the statewide race overall by about 2 points. The Virginia House of Delegates will also change hands, with Republicans taking a 52-48 Republican majority beginning next year after flipping seven seats in Hampton Roads, Southside, southwest and central Virginia. In Prince William, all eight seats in the county were held Democrats heading into the election. Six of the eight flipped from red to blue in 2017 and 2019, driven by backlash to former president Donald Trump. State Republicans hoped to take back some of those seats this year as the political environment became more favorable to Republicans since President Joe Biden took office. There were two races in Prince William specifically targeted by state and nation Republican committees: contests in the 40th District, held by Del. Dan Helmer, and the 31st District, held by Del. Elizabeth Guzman. Both Guzman and Helmer won their races by 8 points. Two new delegates will also be heading to Richmond next year, Michelle Maldonado in the 50th District and Briana Sewell in the 51st District.

2nd district

Del. Candi King won her first full term in the Virginia House of Delegates Tuesday, coming out on top of a race in the 2nd District, which straddles eastern Prince William and Stafford counties. King won a special election in January to take over the remaining year of former delegate Jennifer Carroll Foy’s term after Foy resigned late last fall to run for the Democratic nomination for Virginia governor. King, 38, of Woodbridge, defeated Republican Gina Ciarcia on Tuesday with 17,163 or 58.9% of the more than 19,000 votes tallied. Ciarcia collected 11,936 votes, or 40.9%, according to the Virginia Department of Elections still unofficial results. See DEMOCRATS, page 4

‘Don’t let all that goodness go to the landfill’ See Page 8

‘Quartz District’ would add 1,000 homes, new intersection in Dale City See Page 3

88 DULLES, VA


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