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Close Democratic primary races for the county board and commonwealth’s attorney dominated this year’s ballot in Arlington County, with the contests seen as barometers of public opinion on housing density and criminal justice reform, respectively.
Incumbent commonwealth’s attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti won the Arlington Democratic primary for the top prosecutor spot, beating out a primary challenge from a former deputy, Josh Katcher. Dehghani-Tafti received about 56% of the vote compared to Katcher’s 44%, according to unofficial results from the Virginia Department of Elections. More than 98% of early and day-of votes had been counted in Arlington as of Tuesday night; provisional and late-arriving ballots can be counted through Friday.
There’s no resolution yet in a tight six-way Democratic primary to nominate candidates for two open seats on the county board. The contest is also Arlington’s first attempt at using ranked choice voting, becoming the first locality in Virginia to use it in an election.
Arlington voters listed up to three candidates in order of their preference, so those preliminary results represent only people’s first-choice votes; no candidate emerged as the clear winner in the first round. Susan Cunningham, Natalie Roy, Maureen Coffey, and JD Spain all received more than 20% of the vote, shy of the 33.33% threshold for victory.
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