RICHMOND — Democrats completed a clean statewide sweep in Virginia on Tuesday night, as former U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger defeated Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears for governor, Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, D-Richmond, topped conservative talk-show host John Reid in the lieutenant governor’s race, and former state delegate Jay Jones unseated incumbent Attorney General Jason Miyares in a contest clouded by controversy.

Spanberger won with 55% of the vote to 44.8% for Earle-Sears, while Hashmi prevailed 53.2 % to 46.6 %, and Jones edged Miyares 52.2 % to 47.4 %, according to the Associated Press and unofficial data from the Virginia Department of Elections at 10:10 p.m.

The Democratic victories delivered a sharp rebuke to Virginia’s Republican establishment, which had controlled the executive branch

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