Lt. Governor Primary Night Timeline

For a few minutes on election night, Sen. Aaron Rouse took the lead in the closely contested Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor. Sen. Ghazala Hashmi and former Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney had been in the lead at the start of the night, but the reporting of a large number of ballots from Rouse's hometown of Virginia Beach around 9:30pm briefly put him in first place. This pattern quickly reversed as more ballots came in from Northern Virginia and across the state, leading to a narrow victory for Hashmi out of the three frontrunners. See how the election night results played out minute by minute, and where ballots were reported throughout the night on the map and timeline below.

Notes: Election results from the June 17th Democratic Primary. Date based on the time election results were downloaded by VPAP from the Virginia Dept. of Elections, and may not reflect the time results were reported by local registrar's offices. This timeline does not reflect VPAP's live election night coverage, since VPAP uses a combination of state reports and results from AP News on election night.

Sources: Virginia Department of Elections.