Republicans have taken the offices of the Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, and the majority in the House of Delegates in the 2021 election. Republicans took seven new seats and successfully defended every Republican incumbent and open Republican leaning seat. House Republicans will have a two seat majority when they convene for the 2022 General Assembly Session.

The VMAPAC predicted that many House of Delegates and Statewide races would be decided by literally hundreds of votes. As of 2:30 pm today, five of the seven House seats that the Republicans flipped were won by less than 1,000 votes each. See results below:

District Challenger Vote Margin VMA Watch Race

HD12 Ballard - R 2,701 X

HD28 Durant - R 696

HD63 Taylor - R 741 X

HD75 Wachsmann - R 1,440

HD83 Anderson - R 732 X

HD85 Greenhalgh - R 202

HD91 Cordoza - R 272

As of 2:30 pm today, Governor-elect Youngkin won by 70,171 votes, Lt. Governor-elect Sears won by 58,868 votes, and AG-elect Miyares won by 34,968 votes with only 4,396 outstanding votes. Further, 3.26 million Virginians voted in the Gubernatorial race alone. Only Portsmouth and Charlottesville had a lower voter turnout than in the 2017 election - all other jurisdictions had increased voter turnout.

The Governor's race alone spent a budget busting $105 million - $49.9 million by Youngkin and $55.5 million by McAuliffe! This is up from $66 million spent in the 2017 Gubernatorial race. Organized labor alone pumped $7.3 million into McAuliffe's campaign this cycle. Youngkin's largest outside group donation was $10.7 million from the Republican Governors Association. Manufacturers contributed $1.7 million to all elections this cycle as compared to $1.4 million in the 2017 cycle.

The VMAPAC's goal was to help raise $100,000 for pro-MFG candidates. We surpassed that goal helping to raise over $150,000. We also wanted to educate members and their employees and retirees on the issues as well as mobilize their votes. In just the last month we have held over 22 candidate meetings. We feel confident that we accomplished that goal as well.

I am incredibly thankful to all members that contributed to the VMAPAC and directly to candidates. I am also appreciative to those that helped to develop our candidate survey, hosted "meet and greets" for candidates, and turned out employee and retiree votes for pro-MFG candidates. But, our work is still not done. We will be converting MFGMakesVA.com into an advocacy tool for member employees and retirees to help us improve MFG competitiveness in energy, workforce, environmental regulation, and several other key policy areas. Please keep distributing this resource to your employees, retirees, and personal network.

Sincerely,

Brett A. Vassey

President & CEO, VMA

Treasurer, VMAPAC

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View the 2021 Races to Watch. VMAPAC is watching several House of Delegates and Statewide Office races that will determine manufacturing competitiveness policies in the Commonwealth. View them here.

Read the 2021 Candidate Survey Responses. We received survey responses from 33 House of Delegates candidates. Go to our Candidate Survey Relicasponse Spotlight page to find out if your candidates support manufacturing in the Commonwealth.

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