Richmond Mayor Stoney drops Va. governor bid, seeks lt. governor post The former McAuliffe administration secretary said he wants to avoid a costly primary race against Spanberger Updated April 23 ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democratic Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney announced Tuesday he is dropping his bid for Virginia governor in 2025, avoiding a nomination contest with U.S. Rep. Abigail ...

Richmond Mayor Stoney Drops Virginia Governor Bid, Will Run for Lieutenant Governor April 23rd, 17PM April 23rd, 17PM RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democratic Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney announced ...

Mayor Levar Stoney of Richmond, Virginia, dropped out of the Democratic primary for the 2025 gubernatorial election on Tuesday, seeking to “avoid an ugly primary for governor.” With Stoney ...

The story of Levar Stoney was not supposed to end like this. The fast-rising, homegrown Democratic talent who rose to became the youngest mayor in the history of Richmond at 35 conceded his bid to ...

Virginia state Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, D-Chesterfield, won the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor, beating former Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney in his hometown by more than 10,500 votes.

Around 9:45 p.m., the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor in Virginia was neck and neck among frontrunners Ghazala Hashmi, Levar Stoney and Aaron Rouse. One thing was clear, however: Prince ...

This can’t be the outcome former Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney expected from his amply funded lieutenant governor bid in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, finishing just 3,816 votes, or 0.8 of a ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney has announced that he will no longer be running for Governor of Virginia. Instead he plans to run for the office of Lieutenant Governor.

Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney is getting out of the race for governor and jumping into the Democratic nominating contest for lieutenant governor. Stoney, 42, in the final year of his second term as ...