2025 Virginia Attorney General election

The 2025 Virginia Attorney General election was held on November 4, 2025, to elect the attorney general of Virginia. The election was held concurrently with elections for Virginia's statewide offices, the House of Delegates, and other local offices. Incumbent Republican attorney general Jason Miyares lost his bid for a second term to a challenge by the Democratic nominee Jay Jones in the general election. The in-person early voting period ran from September 19 to November 1, 2025. During his campaign for attorney general, Jones received widespread condemnation after text messages from 2022 surfaced in which he joked about shooting the then-state house speaker Todd Gilbert and fantasized about the death of his children, while deriding a moderate Democrat who had received eulogies from Republicans. Despite the controversy and bipartisan condemnation, including from his running mates, Jones defied the polls that predicted the reelection of Miyares and won the election by 6 %. Jones became the first African American to serve as Virginia attorney general. Jones outperformed Kamala Harris from 2024, but largely underperformed Abigail Spanberger in the concurrent gubernatorial election.