Question:
1. If the election for governor were held today, how would you vote if the candidates were:

49% Democrat Ralph Northam
42% Republican Ed Gillespie
1% Libertarian Cliff Hyra
2% Other
1% Would not vote
5% Don't know

About this Poll
The Fox News Poll is conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R). The poll was conducted Oct. 15-17, 2017, by telephone (landline and cellphone) with live interviewers among a sample of 697 voters selected from a statewide voter file in Virginia. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points for the full sample of likely voters.