Virginia’s upcoming gubernatorial race is poised to make history in 2025, with two women likely to lead the Republican and Democratic tickets.
Lieutenant Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R) and Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) are the clear front-runners in their respective parties, with Republicans and Democrats largely falling in line behind them.
If Earle-Sears and Spanberger each win their respective primaries, one of them will go on to become the commonwealth’s first female governor. And if Earle-Sears wins the general election, she would be the first Black woman to lead the state, which was once the capital of the Confederacy.
“The Republican Party has been very late to the recruitment and the Democratic Party depended upon women voters, particularly African American women voters, but didn’t do very much to ascend them to positions,” said Bob Holsworth, a veteran Virginia political analyst.
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