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Republican primary · August 4, 2026

Virginia Senate Republican primary

Field of 3 Republican candidates competing for the party's nomination. Winner advances to the general election on November 3, 2026.

27 days to primary· 2 pollsLast poll 63d ago
Bert Mizusawa 48% to win the Republican nominationupdated 11h ago · primary-struct-v1
Bert Mizusawa · 48%Kim Farington · 40%David Williams · 11%
Caution · early warning
Editorial raters moved while polling has gone quiet

The last rating change here was 22d ago, but only 0 polls have landed in the last 60 days. When raters move and pollsters don't, the rating shift may be running ahead of the data. Watch for a late-cycle correction in either direction.

Where this race stands
Verified

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How confident are we?0 = certain · 100 = max uncertain
Combined
86
High uncertainty
Main driver: wide vote-share CI (21.6pp).
Forecast CI width72
21.6pp 80% interval
Polling sparsity100
0 polls in 60d · target ≥ 8

Forecast · Republican primary

primary-struct-v1 · medium confidence · 2 polls + fundamentals
1Bert MizusawaBert Kameaaloha Mizusawa is a retired major general in the United States Army, serving in the Army from 1979 to 2015. Mizusawa also served i…22.1% 11–3348% win
2Kim FaringtonActor20.8% 10–3240% win
3David WilliamsDavid or Dave Williams may refer to:13.0% 2–2411% win

Polling average

1015202530FARINGTON 29.0MIZUSAWA 29.0WILLIAMS 29.0MAY '26MAY '26MAY '26
Weighted, plus each pollster's measured bias subtracted before averaging.

All polls · 2 results

strongpositiveinfocautionflag
DatePollster · trust signalsn · popFaringtonMizusawaWilliamsLead
May 4The Public Sentiment Institute/Virginia Project382 · LV222410+2
May 4Public Sentiment Inst.382 · LV222410+2

Endorsements · Republican primary · 0 total

Source · Wikipedia · 3 candidates with no endorsements yet
RKim Farington0 endorsers
no endorsers yet
No endorsements found yet. Endorsements come from the candidate's Wikipedia article (when one exists) and update with the daily scrape.
RBert Mizusawa0 endorsers
no endorsers yet
No endorsements found yet. Endorsements come from the candidate's Wikipedia article (when one exists) and update with the daily scrape.
RDavid Williams0 endorsers
no endorsers yet
No endorsements found yet. Endorsements come from the candidate's Wikipedia article (when one exists) and update with the daily scrape.

Money in this primary

FEC · per-candidate committees · last filing 2025-12-17

No FEC committee filings yet for the Republican primary candidates. Most primary candidates file quarterly; if the primary is recent the data may take a few weeks to appear.

Verification trail
Polls verified0 / 2deterministic
Polls flaggednone
Markets ingested3 platformsupdated 11h ago
FEC filingssyncedcommittee + IE · 2025-12-17
Endorsements19 totalWikipedia scrape
News coverage< 5 articlesGoogle News
Method · bounds + percentage totals + date-order checks