find distance. and in new jersey, phil murphy is trying to be the first re-elected democrat in the garden state in four decades and he is facing the republican governor candidate jack se ciattarelli. and there are other mayor races including in new york with curtis siwa and in boston and in ohio, there could be a change of the balance of power in the house of representatives and also looking for a special primary in south florida. our correspondents are at key locations as we are awaiting the results oa bellwether election, and starting with the governor s race. jeff zeleny is at the head quart quarters of terry mcauliffe. it is a tight race, and what are they feeling down, there and what are the campaign aides saying about the turnouts in the all-important northern virginia? jake, it sais an absolutely tight race, and mcauliffe is using the final hours to text voters and door knocks to some 60,000 voters today. and one thing, they are looking at those who supported joe bid
Race alert in the competitive virginia governor s race. with 25% of the estimated vote in, republican glenn youngkin remains in the lead with 410,598 votes. that s 52% of the vote. he is 36,837 votes pardon me ahead of democrat terry mcauliffe who has 373,000. now, 374,000. it was just updated to 26% of the estimated vote. 374,979. glenn youngkin remaining in the lead as votes come in. more than a quarter now. youngkin, 52%. terry mcauliffe, 47.3%. and we are getting votes from northern virginia. this is different from how it usually happens, john. yeah, sometimes, when we get northern virginia votes, you get a little early and then most comes in late. again, midnight, 1:00 a.m., 2:00 a.m. has been our experience in recent years but we are seeing more. again, that s in part because more than 1. 1 million votes were cast early and so you want to get the breakdown. again as you watch this play up, if you are in the youngkin
With david chalian who has more information from the exit poll. david, what else are you learning? now, we are digging in, jake, to the education issue that we have discussed so much that s within sort of the center of this race in virginia for the last several weeks. so, among parents, people who tell us that they have children under the age of 18 at home. youngkin is edging ahead in these exit polls with 51% of them. mcauliffe, at 49%. i also want to look at those who say education is the most important issue. now, remember, it didn t rank as high as the economy and jobs but it was up there as an important issue for voters in this race. if education s the most important issue, youngkin is winning a majority of education voters. 56% to mcauliffe, 44%. that is a republican taking away what is traditionally a democratic issue, and making it his at this moment in these exit poll results. and then, of course, that whole issue about whether parents should have a say in their child s educ
Republican glenn youngkin is retaining his lead and expanding upon it as of this hour, glenn youngkin has 211,382 votes. that s 55.3% of the vote. he is 43,149 votes ahead of the democrat, former-governor terry mcauliffe. terry mcauliffe has 168, i m sorry, just jumped again now, it s up to terry mcauliffe has 173,192. glenn youngkin has 55.2% of the vote. terry mcauliffe, 44.1% of the vote. we just jumped from 12% of the estimated vote to 13% but glenn youngkin with a a lead at this hour. roughly 43,000 votes. and oh, we have more votes coming in from northern virginia. including from a very key county we will be watching aw night, loudoun county. again, one of the suburbs you come across the potomac river. you are into first alexandria or
We talked loudoun county is here. next to it is the largest population center. fairfax county. this is prince william, excuse me. let me come up to fairfax city here. fairfax in the city, in the county, itself. still waiting but that s one of the places we have reporters on the scene. yeah. in fact, punch up fairfax county because i am going to go to ryan nobles right now, who is in critical fairfax county, virginia, and, ryan, you have some you have some vote numbers coming in for us. what do you have? reporter: yeah, that s right, jake. just handed the early vote and absentee vote return totals for fairfax county. this is just the first tranche of votes that fairfax has counted until this point. and it shows right now, terry mcauliffe with 98,657 votes total both early vote and by mail. vote by mail. and glenn youngkin with a total of 34,410 votes. there is a total, so far, of about 133 votes cast. actually, closer to 134,000 votes cast. and when we break those down,