Big night for Loudoun Democrats as they pick up three Board of Supervisors seats and Senate spot

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Big night for Loudoun Democrats as they pick up three Board of Supervisors seats, coveted Senate spot and commonwealth's attorney post

By Trevor Baratko, [e-mail] Nov 5, 2019 Updated 41 min ago

Loudoun County Democrats are celebrating widespread victories Tuesday night, picking up three seats on the Board of Supervisors, one of the constitutional offices and a crucial state Senate seat.

Taking roughly 54 percent of the vote, Phyllis Randall (D) secured a second term as chair of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, defeating Republican John Whitbeck (38 percent) and independent Bob Ohneiser (4 percent). Randall in 2015 became the first African American woman to chair the county's Board of Supervisors.

Also on the Board of Supervisors, two-term incumbent Suzanne Volpe (R) was ousted in the Algonkian District by Juli Briskman (D) by an 8-point margin, and Democrats Mike Turner and Sylvia Glass cruised in the Ashburn and Broad Run districts, respectively. Current Republican supervisors Ron Meyer (Broad Run) and Ralph Buona (Ashburn) were not seeking re-election.
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Times-Mirror reporters John Battiston and Nathaniel Cline contributed to this report.

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Briskman is representing the Algonkian District. I was hoping that she would be in Eugene Delgaudio's old seat.

[JudyM]

1. Great to see this in Loudon. Stunning that VA is finally (light) blue now, after all our hard work.