Election Guide 2025: Stafford County
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By Martin Davis
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Updated February 20, 2025
Overview | Demographics | Key Dates | Board of Supervisors Race | School Board Race | Local Committees | Voter Information | Related Stories
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Overview
Four seats are up on both the Board of Supervisors and the School Board. The odds that either body will undergo a major ideological shift in this election is moderate.
Elections in Stafford County this coming November may become contentious. Much depends on how citizens respond to past, current, and future issues. Funding public schools has been a long-standing issue in Stafford, as has been the placement of new schools; the potential arrival of a Buc-ee’s has energized citizens; and two recent episodes involving the Board of Supervisors — one involving their actions toward a private citizen, and one involving a methadone clinic — have generated considerable debate in the county.
There are three House of Delegate races in Stafford County. HD 23, HD 65, and HD 64.
Demographics
Stafford’s demographics continue to change rapidly. The Cooper Weldon Center for Public Service rates the county the 7th fastest growing in Virginia since 2020.
Though still a predominantly white county, Stafford’s growth is being driven by its minority groups. From 2010-2022, the Black population has grown 55.8%, while the Hispanic population has grown 120.9%.
With this change in population has also come a rise in income inequality. As recorded by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, this inequality surged between 2011 and 2016. After 2016, it eased until 2020 and has stayed relatively high since.
The impact of these shifts is felt particularly in the public school system, where English Learners and a growing number of special education students are straining the system.
It’s also felt in households, where according to United for Alice, the percentage of households living in poverty in Stafford County was 34% in 2022, the last year for which data is available. That’s up more than 5 percentage points since 2019.
Key Dates
Primary
June 17, 2025
Election Day
November 4, 2025
Certificate of Candidate Qualifications
Deadline to file is 5 p.m. April 3, 2025, for Primary Candidates for Local Offices
Deadline to file is 7 p.m. June 17, 2025, for nonprimary party and independent candidates
For more detailed information
Virginia Department of Elections Publication How to Run for a Local Office
Board of Supervisors
The following seats are not up for election this cycle:
George Washington - Deuntay Diggs (Current Board Chair)
Griffis-Widewater - Tinesha Allen
Rock Hill - Crystal Vanuch
The following seats will be contested in November. The Advance has reached out to each candidate to see if they have made a decision about running. Responses, if received, are noted.
Aquia - Currently held by Monica Gary. Per an announcement on Facebook on December 31, 2024, Gary said that she would not seek reelection. However, in another Facebook announcement on February 20, 2025, Gary said that she was changing course and would run for re-election.
Falmouth - Currently held by Meg Bohmke.
Garrisonville - Currently held by Dr. Pamela Yeung. Per an email exchange with the Advance on December 27, 2024, Yeung indicated that she has decided about whether to run, but she is not ready at this time to publicly announce her decision.
Hartwood - Currently held by Darrell English - Per an email exchange with the Advance on December 27, 2024, English said that he is running for reelection.
School Board
The following seats are not up for election this cycle — all School Board members run as independents:
George Washington - Susan Randall
Griffis-Widewater - Dr. Elizabeth Warner
Rock Hill - Patricia Healy
The following seats will be contested in November. The Advance has reached out to each candidate to see if they have made a decision about running. Responses, if received, are noted.
Aquia — Currently held by Maya Guy. Per an email exchange with the Advance on January 2, 2025, Guy has not yet made a decision on running again, but she will be doing so soon.
Garrisonville — Currently held by Maureen Siegmund. Siegmund sent the following to the Advance by text message on January 7: “I’m running. I’ll have a senior, a freshman, a 7th grader, and a kindergartener next school year. I’m invested!”
Falmouth — Currently held by Dr. Sarah Chase
Hartwood — Currently held by Alyssa Halstead
Local Committees
The Advance emailed both the Stafford Democratic and Republican committee chairs for their thoughts on the upcoming elections.
In an interview with the Advance on December 30, 2024, Democratic Committee chair Howard Rudat argued that the Board of Supervisors’ elections in Falmouth would be influenced by both the methadone story and the scandal that has erupted around removing Mary Becelia, a private citizen, from the Central Rappahannock Regional Library Board.
Rudat sais of Pamela Yeung that her support for locating elementary school 19 in Embrey Mill, although unsuccessful, will “ring positive with voters” in the Garrisonville district. He also says that this stance and her position on the Buc-ee’s decision coming up this year could “well set the foundation for her run in the future.”
Regarding the School Board, Rudat says that it has “gotten away from contentious, COVID-style issues, and is focused more on the need for funds, the new superintendent, and they’re more united because they aren’t focused on libraries and books.” They present, he said, “a more united front due to lack of support from supervisors.”
The Advance had not heard back from Republican Committee chair Steve Schwartz.
Voter Information
The go-to guide for any questions related to elections and voting in Stafford County is the Stafford Office of Elections.
To register to vote, update your current Virginia voter registration, apply to vote absentee by mail, or view your polling place, election district, absentee ballot status, and voting history, visit the Virginia Department of Elections.
Related Stories
Stafford Supervisors to Consider By-Law Amendments Concerning Board and Commission Appointments
Stafford is in a School Funding Crisis, Says School Board Advisory Committee
Local Obituaries
To view local obituaries or to send a note to family and loved ones, please visit the link that follows.
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