With 78% of the votes counted, Warner leads Republican Bert Mizusawa 58.9%-40.8%.
Mizusawa was strong in central and western Virginia with Warner winning in the city of Roanoke and in the state’s larger cities like Richmond, Norfolk, Virginia Beach and the Washington, D.C., suburb of Alexandria.
Warner served as governor of the state from 2002-2006. He was elected to the Senate in 2008.,
Mizusawa is a retired U.S. Army major general with 41 years of military service.
A graduate of West Point and Harvard Law School, he worked on the Senate Armed Services Committee staff and advised the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
He had never held public office.
