Kaine wins in Surry, statewide while IW backs Cao

Published 8:15 pm Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., won his reelection bid.

Complete but unofficial results the Virginia Department of Elections reported as of 12:05 p.m. on Nov. 6 showed Kaine having received 2.3 million statewide votes, or 54%, to Republican challenger Hung Cao’s 1.9 million, or just under 45.8%, with another 7,849 votes or 0.2% going to write-in candidates.

The results are based on all 133 localities reporting.

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Isle of Wight County, which has voted reliably Republican for years in state and federal elections, backed Cao with 13,917 votes, or 58%, to Kaine’s 10,039 votes, or 41.8%, with the remaining 20 write-in votes accounting for 0.08%.

Isle of Wight’s results include election day votes from all 17 polling precincts, early in-person voting and absentee ballots but not provisional ballots.

Surry County voters backed Kaine by a margin of 131 votes. Results from Surry’s six precincts, all of which have reported totals, show 2,203 votes, or 51.4%, for Kaine and 2,072 votes, or just under 48.4%, for Cao with the remaining 9 votes going to write-in candidates.

Surry’s results include election day votes from all six precincts, early in-person voting and absentee ballots and partial reporting of provisional ballots.

According to the Virginia Public Access Project, 12,112 Isle of Wight voters and 2,168 Surry voters had cast in-person or mail-in ballots as of Nov. 4.

Editor’s note: This story was updated at 12:10 p.m. on Nov. 6