Today, Democrats in HD11 (Fairfax City/Fairfax County) and HD23 (Prince William County/Stafford County) held “firehouse primaries” to select their nominees for the January 6, 2026 special elections to fill the seats of Del. David Bulova (D-HD11) and Del. Candi Mundon King (D-HD23), respectively. The reason for these special elections is that both Bulova and Mundon King were selected by Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger to serve in her administration, with Bulova as Secretary of Natural & Historic Resources and Mundon King as Secretary of the Commonwealth. These are both solid-blue districts, so neither should be particularly competitive on January 13, but still, you never want to take anything for granted.
Anyway, with that, here are the results from the “firehouse primaries” today.
- HD11 (you can see the candidates ( Gretchen Bulova, Vanessa Cardenas, So Lim, Denver Supinger and Douglas M. Shuster) here at Sunday’s candidates forum): Results per the Fairfax County/Fairfax City Dems – 1,188 votes total; Gretchen Bulova 47.7%-So Lim 17.6%- Vanessa Cardenas 15.0%-Douglas Shuster 12.4%-Denver Supinger 7.3%
- HD23 (candidates Margaret Angela Franklin, Muhammed Casim) – Franklin wins 225-109
