The 5th Congressional District will have both a Democratic and Republican primary Aug. 4. It’s the only congressional district in Virginia that will have primaries to pick candidates for both major parties.
On the Republican side, incumbent John McGuire faces a challenge from Melanie Lucero. Democrats will choose between former Rep. Tom Perriello, Suzanne Krzyzanowski and Robert Tracinski for the nomination.
McGuire is one of two incumbents in Virginia to draw primary challengers; Democrat Don Beyer in the 8th District in Northern Virginia is the other.
Tuesday was the deadline for congressional candidates seeking party nominations to file. Both parties on Wednesday announced the list of candidates.
Three districts will have Republican primaries: the 5th, 7th and 10th.
Five districts will have Democratic primaries: the 1st, 2nd, 5th, 8th and 9th.
Aug. 4 will also see a statewide Republican primary to pick a U.S. Senate candidate as well as Democratic primaries for local offices in Arlington County (county board), Chesterfield County (board of supervisors), Harrisonburg (city council), Manassas (city council), Montgomery County (sheriff) and Roanoke (city council).
Early voting in those primaries begins June 18.
Independents still have until June 16 to file to get on the fall ballot. Here’s the full list of congressional candidates who have qualified for the ballot. Where only one candidate is listed, that candidate is the nominee and there is no need for a primary.
U.S. Senate
Democrat: Mark Warner (incumbent)
Republican: Kim Farrington, Bert Mizusawa, David Williams.
1st Congressional District
Democrat: Seven-way primary between Salaam Bhatti, Elizabeth Dempsey Biggs, Tim Cywinski, Jason Knapp, Ericka Kopp, Shannon Taylor and Melvin “Mel” Tull.
Republican: Rob Wittman (incumbent)
2nd Congressional District
Democrat: Four-way primary between S. “Dr Nila” Devanat, William “Bill” Fleming, Elaine Luria and Patrick Mosolf.
Republican: Jen Kiggans (incumbent)
3rd Congressional District
Democrat: Bobby Scott (incumbent)
Republican: Edwin Rivera
4th Congressional District
Democrat: Jennifer McClellan (incumbent)
Republican: No candidate filed, but party committee has until Aug. 4 to name a candidate.
5th Congressional District
Democrat: Three-way primary between Suzanne Krzyzanowski, Tom Perriello and Robert Tracinski
Republican: Two-way primary between Melanie Lucero and John McGuire (incumbent)
6th Congressional District
Democrat: Beth Macy
Republican: Ben Cline (incumbent)
7th Congressional District
Democrat: Eugene Vindman (incumbent)
Republican: Three-way primary between Phillip Harding, Doug Ollivant and Ricky Smithers.
8th Congressional District
Democrat: Five-way primary between Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (incumbent), Lorena Thorne Bruner, Michael Christian Duffin, Adam M. Dunnigan and Mo Seifeldein.
Republican: Tony Sabio
9th Congressional District
Democrat: Three-way primary between Douglas Crockett, Adam Grayson Murphy and Joy Powers.
Republican: Morgan Griffith (incumbent)
10th Congressional District
Democrat: Suhas Subramanyam (incumbent)
Republican: Possible four-way primary between David Beckwith, Julie Perry, Anthony Suttles and Sam Wong. The state Republican Party says it has certified Suttles but the state is still lacking some paperwork from him.
11th Congressional District
Democrat: James Walkinshaw (incumbent)
Republican: Arthur Purves
Cardinal News will now send an issue questionnaire to all these candidates and post the responses on our Voter Guide.
Two party-run nominating processes are also underway. Lynchburg Republicans will pick three candidates for city council on Saturday in a “firehouse primary” — see the story by Cardinal’s Emma Malinak on that. Montgomery County Republicans will use a similar process June 20 to pick a candidate for sheriff.