2025 in Virginia

Incumbents

State government

• Governor: Glenn Youngkin

Events

• January 1 – FBI agents announce the seizure of more than 150 homemade pipe bombs and other explosive devices from a home in Isle of Wight County.
• May 21 – Representative Gerry Connolly, a Democrat representing Virginia's 11th congressional district, dies of cancer at the age of 75.
• June 23 - In Augusta County, 15 cars of a freight train derail near Dooms Crossing Road. There are no casualties.
• June 27 – James Edward Ryan, president of the University of Virginia, resigns under pressure from the Trump administration.
• July 30 – At a Danville magazine company building, a man enters the company office of local city Councilman Lee Vogler and sets him on fire, causing serious injuries. Police say a full investigation is underway, but that the suspect appears to have been motivated by personal reasons and that the attack was unrelated to Vogler's work as a councilman.
• August 5 – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announces the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery will be returned to the cemetery. The statue had been removed in 2023.
• August 16 - Roblox-Schlep controversy: 2 people, Sanjeev Pinjala and Owen Scanlon, protest at the Dulles Rec Center in Aldie, Virginia as part of the Schlep controversy or 2025 Roblox Schlep Protests. The protest lasted about an hour.
• September 19 – U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Erik Siebert resigns. Siebert had been under pressure by the Trump administration to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James with mortgage fraud, but no charges had been brought. His successor, Lindsey Halligan, brings charges against James in October.
• October 3 – Text messages surface from Jay Jones, the Democratic party candidate for Attorney General, in which he suggested the then-House Speaker should be shot and said he and his wife were "breeding little fascists".
• October 23 – A man from Honduras is killed by a passing car while fleeing immigration agents in Norfolk.
• November 4
• * 2025 [Virginia Attorney General election]: Jay Jones wins election to become Attorney General, beating incumbent AG Jason Miyares.
• * 2025 Virginia gubernatorial election: Former U.S. Representative Abigail Spanberger wins the gubernatorial election, beating Republican Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears.
• December 4 – The FBI arrests a man suspected of planting pipe bombs outside the DNC and RNC buildings in Washington, D.C. on January 5, 2021.
• December 29 – The Department of Justice sues Virginia over allowing in-state tuition for students without legal immigration status.