2025 Democratic Candidates
2025 Candidates for Office in Virginia
Please get out and vote. Some basic candidate information is listed below for each of them.
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Abigail Spanberger
Candidate for Governor
AbigailSpanberger.com
Abigail Anne Davis Spanberger is a former intelligence officer who served as the U.S. representative for Virginia’s 7th congressional district from 2019 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she won reelection in 2020 and 2022. She is the Democratic nominee for governor in the 2025 Virginia gubernatorial election. She will face incumbent lieutenant governor and Republican nominee Winsome Earle-Sears.
In 2006, she joined the Central Intelligence Agency as an operations officer. She said she gathered intelligence about nuclear proliferation and terrorism. In 2014, she left the CIA and entered the private sector. She was hired by Royall & Company (now EAB). In 2017, Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe appointed her to the Virginia Fair Housing Board.
Jay Jones
Attorney General Candidate
JayJones.com
Jerrauld C. C. “Jay” Jones is an American politician and attorney serving as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from the 89th district.
In July 2020, Jones announced his candidacy for attorney general of Virginia in the 2021 election. Jones lost the Democratic primary to incumbent Mark Herring, despite receiving an endorsement from Governor Ralph Northam.
In 2024, Jones announced that he would run for the attorney general position again in 2025.
Jay previously served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, where he was a member of the Office of Consumer Protection. In this role he took on the gun lobby to keep families safe from violent crime, sued corporate special interests to prevent higher grocery prices, and went after big banks and slumlords preying on consumers.
Ghazala Hashmi
Candidate Lt. Governor
Ghazalaforvirginia.com
Ghazala Firdous Hashmi is an Indian-born American politician and former academic administrator and educator. A Democrat, Hashmi represents the 15th district in the Senate of Virginia. She worked as an educator and academic administrator for 25 years before running for office.
In the 2019 Virginia Senate election, Hashmi won Virginia’s 10th Senate district, defeating incumbent Republican Glen Sturtevant. She is the first woman to represent the district and the first Muslim elected to the Senate of Virginia. In November 2023, she was re-elected to the Senate of Virginia in Senate District 15.