Reply #11: Virginia recount: Loudoun Independent-"Special election time––" [View All]

December 14, 2005
Special election time–– and perhaps one here
Nearly two million votes will be recount Dec. 20 to determine Virginia's next Attorney General and two seats in the General Assembly will be filled in special elections next month.

Gov. Mark Warner this week set Jan. 3 as the date for special elections in Virginia's Fourth Senate District and Third House District to fill seats which will soon be vacated. Voters in the Fourth Senate District, which includes Caroline, Essex, Hanover, King and Queen, King William, Middlesex and Spotsylvania counties, will elect a Senator to fill the seat left open when Republican Bill Bolling was elected Lieutenant Governor last month. Democrat Jackie Stump recently announced that he was resigning from the House of Delegates, leaving a vacancy in the Third District, which includes Buchanan, Russell and Tazewell counties.

A recount of votes cast in the attorney general's race is scheduled to take place in Richmond over two days beginning Dec. 21. Republican Bob McDonnell Nov. 28 was declared winner of the race but Democrat Creigh Deeds, who lost by 323 votes, has requested a recount.

If McDonnell is found to be the winner of the recount, State Senator Bill Mims (R-33rd) is rumored to be a likely candidate for appointment to be an assistant state attorney general. If Mims resigns another special election would have to be held to fill his position in the Senate. A number of well-known candidates here are reportedly considering a race to replace Mims.

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