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About one-third of Virginia voters name the economic system a very powerful challenge dealing with the state, putting it forward of different matters which have dominated headlines within the closing days of the gubernatorial race.

Slightly below one-quarter mentioned training is most vital, about 16% selected taxes, about 13% selected the coronavirus pandemic and nearly one-tenth selected abortion. 

Terry McAuliffe voters name the economic system their high challenge, adopted by the coronavirus and training. Amongst Glenn Youngkin voters, the economic system is the highest challenge, adopted by training and taxes. Most voters take a optimistic view of Virginia’s economic system, with about 55% score it both glorious or good.

Though the pandemic isn’t on the high of voters’ considerations, practically all are vaccinated and a smaller majority are supportive of office vaccine mandates. The overwhelming majority of Virginia voters, near 9 in 10, say they’ve gotten a minimum of one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, and simply over half say they favor employers requiring their workers to get vaccinated.

Virginia voters on this yr’s elections maintain negatives of each President Biden and former president Donald Trump. 

Biden, who received comfortably in Virginia final yr, now faces approval rankings considerably underwater within the state, with roughly 43% approving and the remainder disapproving – probably a consequence each of his declining rankings since taking workplace, and the composition of the voters that turned out to vote this yr. Solely about one-fifth of voters say they view their vote as a approach to specific help for Biden, with practically 3 in 10 saying it’s a approach to specific opposition, and the remaining half of the voters saying Biden wasn’t an element. Trump isn’t any extra standard within the state: solely about 4 in 10 view him favorably. 

A slender majority of voters say the Democratic Get together is simply too liberal total, whereas fewer name the Republican Get together too conservative. About two-thirds of Democratic voters say their very own get together’s ideology is about proper, whereas about two-thirds of Republicans say the identical of the GOP. Independents are much less glad with both get together, with solely about one-fifth saying the Democratic Get together is usually about proper, and solely about one-third saying that of the GOP. 

Greater than 80% of voters say they’re a minimum of considerably assured that votes within the state will likely be counted precisely, however barely beneath half name themselves very assured. Democrats are roughly 4 instances as probably as Republicans to say they’re very assured about election accuracy. 

Notice: The Virginia CNN Exit Ballot is a mix of in-person interviews with Election Day voters and phone and on-line polls measuring the views of absentee by-mail and early voters. It was performed by Edison Analysis on behalf of the Nationwide Election Pool. In-person interviews on Election Day have been performed at a random pattern of 35 Virginia polling places amongst 1,211 Election Day voters. The outcomes additionally embrace 2,068 interviews with early and absentee voters performed by telephone, on-line or by textual content. Outcomes for the total pattern have a margin of error of plus or minus 3 share factors; it’s bigger for subgroups.  

CNN’s David Chalian stories on the exit polls: