Yesterday Virginians in various jurisdictions and districts voted in primaries. Next Tuesday -- June 15 -- voters in the 27th House of Delegates District will elect a successor to Sam Nixon, the Republican who departed to become head of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency. Special elections seldom attract robust turnouts. Chesterfield seems unlikely to run out of ballots.

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With House District 27 Republicans’ selection of Roxann Robinson as their nominee, the GOP line up for the two June 15 special elections is set.

Robinson, who will run in Chesterfield’s HD 27, joins Tony Wilt, nominee in HD 26, as the Republican ticket for June 15. The special elections were called to fill vacancies caused by the resignation of two valuable members of the Caucus to join the McDonnell Administration—Sam Nixon to become Virginia’s CIO and Matt Lohr to become commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

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Roxann Robinson, a Chesterfield County optometrist, won an easy victory yesterday over three opponents in a Chesterfield Republican canvass.

Robinson won 1,008 votes. Sherman Litton gained 219 votes, Brian Sullivan, 210, and Jason King, a latecomer who was affiliated with the tea-party movement, received 105 votes.

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Dr. Roxann Robinson, a Chesterfield County optometrist, will run for the vacant House of Delegates seat held for 16 years by former Del. Samuel A. Nixon Jr., R-Chesterfield.

Nixon recently was appointed chief information officer of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency.

Robinson, a Republican, is the first of what may become several candidates to seek the seat, said Sen. Stephen H. Martin, R-Chesterfield, who announced her candidacy.

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