Winner in VA 8th Congressional Race Declared In McLean

MCLEAN, VA — Even though votes continue to be counted in Tuesday's dual primary election in Virginia, the Associated Press officially declared winners in the GOP Senate and the 8th Congressional District Races.

With 39 percent of the votes counted, Bert Mizusawa was declared the GOP's candidate for U.S. Senate on the Nov. 3 ballot. He defeated challengers David E. Williams and Kim Farington. Mizusawa will face incumbent Senator Mark Warner (D) in November

In McLean, Rep. Don Beyer was declared the victor in the 8th Congressional District race, defeating four other Democrats: Mo Seifeldein, Adam M. Dunigan, Michael Christian Duffin, and Lorena Thorne Bruner. Beyer will face Republican Tony Sabio in the general election for that district.

Preliminary vote tallies are as follows. The tables below will continue updating in real time as the state releases new vote tallies.

Member, House of Representatives (8th District)

Democratic primary

Senate Republican Primary

By a slim margin, Virginians voted in April to approve a referendum that allowed for a special redistricting process. The referendum was sparked by a partisan redistricting process kicked off by Texas and picked up by other largely Republican states, before some Democratic states joined.

However, after a bitter fight and a narrow victory for Democrats, who largely favored redistricting, the Supreme Court of Virginia voided the referendum results on procedural grounds, leaving the state's districts unchanged.