Republican voters in Greene County had only one race on the primary ballot this year.
Delegate Nick Frietas decided to retire from the House, leaving an open seat for District 62.
In the primary election, Karen Hamilton defeated R. Clay Jackson 2,439 votes to 1,760 votes. That’s 58.09 percent.
In addition to Greene County, District 62 consists of the counties of Culpeper, Madison, and Orange. Hamilton carried all but Madison. Jackson is the chair of the Madison Board of Supervisors.
Hamilton is a small business owner in Orange. She will face Democrat Sara Ratcliffe who Freitas defeated in 2023 with 61.65 percent of the vote according to the Virginia Public Access project.
Ratcliffe also ran in 2021 in the former House District 58 seat that was held for many years by Republican Rob Bell. New boundaries went into effect for the 2023 election.
Before you go: This story should have been posted to this website soon after it was in the June 18, 2025 edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement. It was not. Why? It is quite likely that there are inefficiencies that come with being a one-person information operations. One day Town Crier Productions will have a content management system where it can all be entered into one place. That day is not now. Management and labor both apologize for the inefficiency, but maybe it’s okay to be human?
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