2021 Virginia attorney general election
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Nominee Jason Miyares Mark Herring
Party Republican Democratic
Popular vote 1,647,100 1,620,564
Percentage 50.4% 49.6%
Miyares:      40–50%      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Herring:      50–60%      60–70%      70–80%      80–90%      >90%
Tie:      40–50%      50%
     No data
Attorney General before election

Mark Herring
Democratic

Elected Attorney General

Jason Miyares
Republican

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The 2021 Virginia attorney general election was held on November 2, 2021, to elect the next attorney general of Virginia. Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring attempted to win a third term. Herring initially planned to run for governor, but decided to run for re-election. Herring faced Republican nominee Jason Miyares in the general election. Herring conceded defeat at 5:02 PM EST the following day, November 3.[1] Miyares became the first Cuban-American and Hispanic to be elected to statewide office in Virginia. Miyares was later sworn in on January 15, 2022.

Democratic primary

Candidates

Nominee

Eliminated in primary

Declined

Endorsements

Mark Herring
Federal officials
State senators
State delegates
Local officials
Organizations
Unions
  • Virginia Professional Fire Fighters[13]
Jay Jones
Federal officials
Governors
State senators
State delegates
Former delegates
Local officials
Individuals
Organizations

Debates

Mark Herring and Jay Jones agreed to one debate. The debate started off with Mark Herring started off talking about his record and saying what he has done about certain cases vs what Jones was doing at the time. Jay Jones started off talking about his endorsement from Governor at the time, Ralph Northam, and claiming Herring's past didn't matter for what was happening in the present.

2021 Virginia Democratic Primary for Attorney General
No. Date Host Link Participants
Key:
 P  Participant   A  Absent   N  Non-invitee   W  Withdrawn
Jay Jones Mark Herring*
1 May 15, 2021 WTVR CBS 6 [19] P P

Issues Herring and Jones agreed on almost every issue asked to them. When the rebuttals came though, Herring would often claim that Jones didn’t support something when he was on the legislature and Jones would point to an example where they agreed on it in the past, such as a big. When Jones rebutted Herring, Jones claimed that Herring didn’t begin on the issue until it was in the political atmosphere.

Here are a couple examples below.

Support Prosecuting Price Gougers (relating to the issue of Colonial Pipeline hacking)
Herring Jones
Supports Supports
Defend the VEC that didn’t pay benefits to Virginians
Herring Jones
Opposes Opposes

Polling

Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size[a] 		Margin
of error 		Mark
Herring 		Jay
Jones 		Other Undecided
Roanoke College May 24 – June 1, 2021 637 (LV) ± 3.9% 49% 20% – 31%
Christopher Newport University April 11–20, 2021 806 (LV) ± 3.9% 42% 18% 1% 39%

Results

Results by county and independent city:
  Herring
  •   80–90%
  •   70–80%
  •   60–70%
  •   50–60%
  Jones
  •   50–60%
  •   60–70%
Democratic primary results[20]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Mark Herring (incumbent) 274,736 56.63
Democratic Jay Jones 210,365 43.37
Total votes 485,101 100.00

Republican convention

Candidates

Nominated at convention

Defeated at convention

Declined

Results

The round-by-round results of the ranked-choice voting election
Virginia GOP Convention, Attorney General Nominee [26]
Candidate Round 1 Round 2 Round 3
Votes % Votes % Votes %
Jason Miyares 4,590 36.6% 5,297 42.2% 6,490 51.7%
Chuck Smith 4,324 34.4% 4,975 39.6% 6,064 48.3%
Jack White 1,872 14.9% 2,282 18.2% Eliminated
Leslie Haley 1,768 14.1% Eliminated

General election

Endorsements

Mark Herring (D)
Federal officials
State senators
State delegates
Local officials
Organizations
Unions
  • Virginia Professional Fire Fighters[31]
Jason Miyares (R)
Governors
Federal officials
State senators
State delegates
Organizations

General election Debates

Mark Herring and Jason Miyares agreed to one debate. It was a town hall like event where people could ask questions about important issues.

2021 Virginia Attorney General
No. Date Host Link Participants
Key:
 P  Participant   A  Absent   N  Non-invitee   W  Withdrawn
Jason Miyares Mark Herring*
1 October 13, 2021 Loudoun Chamber [40] P P
Most important issue
Miyares Herring
Public Safety Protecting Others
Agree on importance of a diverse office
Miyares Herring
Support Support
Position on taking down controversial statues of Confederate leaders[41][42][43]
Miyares Herring
Oppose Support

Polling

Graphical summary
Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.
Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size[a] 		Margin
of error 		Mark
Herring (D) 		Jason
Miyares (R) 		Other Undecided
The Trafalgar Group (R) October 29–31, 2021 1,081 (LV) ± 3.0% 47% 50% 1% 2%
Echelon Insights (R) Archived 2021-10-29 at the Wayback Machine October 27–29, 2021 611 (LV) ± 4.0% 47% 48% – 5%
Roanoke College October 14–28, 2021 571 (LV) ± 4.7% 46% 45% 0% 9%
Washington Post/Schar School October 20–26, 2021 1,107 (RV) ± 3.5% 48% 43% 3%[b] 6%
918 (LV) ± 4.0% 50% 44% 1%[c] 4%
Christopher Newport University October 17–25, 2021 944 (LV) ± 3.5% 48% 47% – 5%
Suffolk University October 21–24, 2021 500 (LV) ± 4.4% 48% 45% – 7%
Emerson College October 22–23, 2021 875 (LV) ± 3.2% 47% 44% 1% 7%
co/efficient (R)[A] October 20–21, 2021 785 (LV) ± 3.5% 45% 46% – 8%
Cygnal (R) October 19–21, 2021 816 (LV) ± 3.4% 48% 47% – 6%
Virginia Commonwealth University October 9–21, 2021 722 (LV) ± 6.4% 39% 35% 14% 12%
Christopher Newport University September 27 – October 6, 2021 802 (LV) ± 4.2% 49% 43% – 7%
Emerson College October 1–3, 2021 620 (LV) ± 3.9% 46% 44% 1% 10%
Roanoke College September 12–26, 2021 603 (LV) ± 4.6% 47% 37% 0% 16%
KAConsulting LLC (R)[B] September 17–19, 2021 700 (LV) ± 3.7% 43% 27% 1% 30%
Virginia Commonwealth University September 7–15, 2021 731 (LV) ± 6.9% 39% 33% 14% 14%
Emerson College September 13–14, 2021 778 (LV) ± 3.4% 47% 41% 2% 11%
University of Mary Washington September 7–13, 2021 1,000 (A) ± 3.1% 40% 37% 6%[d] 17%
528 (LV) ± 4.1% 42% 46% 2%[e] 10%
The Trafalgar Group (R) August 26–29, 2021 1,068 (LV) ± 3.0% 43% 45% – 13%
Monmouth University August 24–29, 2021 802 (RV) ± 3.5% 45% 43% 1% 11%
Christopher Newport University August 15–23, 2021 800 (LV) ± 3.6% 53% 41% 0% 6%
Roanoke College August 3–17, 2021 558 (LV) ± 4.2% 45% 37% 1% 17%
Virginia Commonwealth University August 4–15, 2021 770 (RV) ± 5.4% 40% 30% 20% 10%
~747 (LV) ± 5.5% 41% 30% 19% 10%
JMC Analytics and Polling (R) June 9–12, 2021 550 (LV) ± 4.2% 45% 38% – 17%

Results

Virginia Attorney General election, 2021[44]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Jason Miyares 1,647,100 50.36% +3.80%
Democratic Mark Herring (incumbent) 1,620,564 49.55% -3.79%
Write-in 2,995 0.09% -0.01%
Total votes 3,270,659 100.00% N/A
Republican gain from Democratic

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear
  2. ^ Neither with 2%, Would not vote with 1%, Other with 0%
  3. ^ Neither with 1%, Other and Would not vote with 0%
  4. ^ None/Would not vote with 4%, other candidate with 2%
  5. ^ Other candidate with 2%, None/Would not vote with 0%
Partisan clients
  1. ^ This poll was sponsored by Winsome Sears's campaign for Lieutenant Governor
  2. ^ This poll was sponsored by the Presidential Coalition

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