Early voting in the upcoming Virginia primaries will expand this weekend, with Fairfax County opening additional in-person sites starting this Saturday (June 8).
Voters will determine representatives for Virginia’s 10th and 11th Congressional districts, as well as the Republican who will challenge Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine this fall. Early voting for the June 18 primary began on May 3 and will continue in-person through June 15.
Where to vote early
Right now, early voting is available at the Fairfax County Government Center (12000 Government Center Parkway) from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on weekdays and at the Mount Vernon Governmental Center (2511 Parkers Lane) and the North County Governmental Center (1801 Cameron Glen Drive) in Reston from 1-7 p.m.
This weekend, the county will expand early voting to 13 more locations and add Saturday hours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Burke Centre Library (5935 Freds Oak Road)
- Centreville Regional Library (14200 St. Germain Drive)
- Franconia Governmental Center (6121 Franconia Road)
- Great Falls Library (9830 Georgetown Pike)
- Herndon-Fortnightly Library (768 Center Street)
- Lorton Community Center (9520 Richmond Highway)
- Mason Governmental Center (6507 Columbia Pike, Annandale)
- McLean Governmental Center (1437 Balls Hill Road)
- Jim Scott Community Center (3001 Vaden Drive, Fairfax)
- Sully Governmental Center (4900 Stonecroft Blvd, Chantilly)
- Thomas Jefferson Library (7415 Arlington Blvd, Falls Church)
- Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library (7584 Leesburg Pike)
- West Springfield Governmental Center (6140 Rolling Road)
In-person voters must bring an accepted form of identification or sign a statement confirming their identity.
Tomorrow (Friday) until 5 p.m. is the last chance to request an absentee ballot by mail. Those ballots can dropped off in person at the Fairfax County Government Center or left in a dropbox by 7 p.m. on June 18. The deadline for the county elections office to receive ballots mailed on or before Election Day (June 18) is noon on June 21.
Ballot dropboxes can be found in front of the Fairfax County Government Center, at all other early voting locations during opening hours, and at any polling precinct on Election Day. Anyone who requests a mail ballot but decides to vote early in-person instead should bring their ballot and surrender it when they vote. Otherwise, they might have to vote with a provisional ballot.
Curbside voting is available for eligible voters.
10th Congressional District
Five years after first winning the seat in 2019, Wexton announced last year that she wouldn’t seek a fourth term in Virginia’s 10th Congressional District due to health reasons.
Her departure from the Democratic-leaning district — which covers Loudoun, Fauquier and Rappahannock counties as well as western Prince William and Clifton in southern Fairfax County — has resulted in a crowded field of contenders for the seat.
Among the candidates are a couple of state elected officials who represent parts of Fairfax County: State Sen. Jennifer Boysko (D-38), whose district includes McLean, Reston, and Great Falls, and Del. Dan Helmer (D-10), who has represented Centreville, Clifton and the Braddock area since 2020.
Also in the running is former House of Delegates speaker Eileen Filler-Corn, who represented central Fairfax from Mantua down to Burke for more than a decade. She opted to run for Congress instead of seeking reelection last year after previously being considered a potential candidate for Virginia’s next governor in 2025.
Last month, Wexton endorsed State Sen. Suhas Subramanyam (D-32), who currently represents eastern Loudoun County and previously served on Capitol Hill as former President Barack Obama’s tech policy advisor. Del. Michelle-Ann Lopes Maldonado (D-20), who represents the Manassas area of Prince William County, is also on the ballot.
Candidates vying for the Republican nomination include Aliscia Andrews, who challenged Wexton in the 2020 general election, but lost by roughly 13 percentage points.
Here are the candidates on the ballot for the 10th Congressional District:
- Republicans
- Democrats
11th Congressional District
Ahsan Nasar, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves and military lawyer, is challenging incumbent Gerry Connolly, who has held the seat representing most of Fairfax County since 2009.
The Democratic primary winner will face off against Republican nominee Michael Van Meter, a U.S. Navy veteran and former law enforcement officer, in the Nov. 5 general election. Van Meter sought to represent the 33rd Senate District but lost to state Sen. Jennifer Carroll Foy last year.
U.S. Senate
Several Republicans are mounting challenges against incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine. Chosen as Hillary Clinton’s running mate in her 2016 presidential bid, Kaine served as Virginia’s governor from 2006 to 2010 and was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2013.
Hung Cao ran against Wexton in the 2022 midterms, losing by nearly seven percentage points. Former U.S. Marine and retired military lawyer Chuck Smith narrowly lost the Republican nomination for Virginia’s attorney general to Jason Miyares in 2021.
Here are the Republican primary candidates seeking one of Virginia’s two U.S. Senate seats.
