Youngkin wins Republican nomination for Virginia Governor Photo: WINA
RICHMOND (WINA) – Great Falls former businessman Glenn Youngkin is the Republicans’ pick to run for Governor in November. In the 6th round of counting in Richmond, State Senator Amanda Chase was eliminated and her delegates in ranked-choice voting going to Youngkin put him over the 50% mark needed to win the nomination. In that round, he got nearly 55% of the vote to Charlottesville resident and runner-up Pete Snyder’s 45%.
Appearing on the Hugh Hewitt Show on WINA, Youngkin said, “There a bright sunny day in Virginia today, we’re going to work to go win in November right now.”
Jahd Khalil reports
The drama during past Republican nomination contests has played out on the convention floor over hours. This year it s being measured in rounds.
The Attorney General’s race was counted in three rounds on Sunday. Virginia’s Republicans deployed 80 counters to go through over 30,000 ballots.
On 152 tables vote tellers laid out ballots and sorted through them before reporting them to a staffer entering the figures onto a spreadsheet.
After they counted all the votes Miyares of Virginia Beach led, but not by enough to win in the first round only 37% marked him as their first choice, under a weighted voting system. In last place was Chesterfield county supervisor Leslie Haley. About 4,500 voters marked her as their first choice, so in round two, those voters’ second choices were distributed to the remaining candidates.