Democrat Barack Obama leads the presidential voting in Staunton with only absentee votes still needing to be counted.
Obama has 5,161 votes, 51.0 percent, to Republican Mitt Romney’s 4,754 votes, or 47.0 percent.
Obama won Staunton in 2008 with 5,569 votes, 50.6 percent, to Republican John McCain’s 5,330 votes, 48.4 percent.
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Twenty days before the end of the 2026 election cycle, Tuesday, Nov. 3, early voting in Virginia is tracking well ahead – almost double – of what we saw in the 2022 midterms.
States like to brag about their tourism economies, like Virginia does, when it touts its record-high $36.2 billion in visitor spending in 2025.
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