PWC Prosecutor Results: Lowery Concedes Race To Ashworth

Updated at 9:53 a.m.

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA — Amy Ashworth will continue to serve as Prince William County's Commonwealth's Attorney. Her opponent in this year's election, Republican Matt Lowery, conceded on Wednesday morning.

(See real-time election results at the bottom of this story.)

Unofficial results on Tuesday night showed Ashworth with an 8,000 vote lead. All of the area's precincts have reported results. The only votes that have not been counted are provisional ballots.

"I am confident that with the results as they are posted, Amy Ashworth has prevailed in this election," Lowery wrote on Facebook on Wednesday morning. "I ran for this office because my life and legal experience put me in a unique position to fix what I firmly believe are serious policy issues within the Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney. Along the way, I felt like pointing out these issues to the public and obtaining the power to correct them became a "duty" to my fellow citizens."

Ashworth says she deserves reelection for her work expanding the prosecutor's office in recent years. Lowery claims that Ashworth's political ambitions and policies have led to an increase in crime.

"The greatest failure of the incumbent has been her intentional destruction of a well-functioning criminal justice system in Greater Prince William County, which has been compounded by a failure to acknowledge or adjust to the skyrocketing crime that has resulted, in part, because of the failed policies of the C.A.," Lowery said in a Patch questionnaire.

In her questionnaire, Ashworth noted that Lowery had worked in the prosecutor's office in the past and failed to enact any meaningful change.

"I have hired attorneys and staff that speak eight different languages and that look like the community we represent. I have put women in leadership roles like never before and actually pay them the same as men, which had not happened previously," Ashworth said. "My opponent worked in the same office and did nothing to improve or change the status quo and now wants us to return to the ways of the past."

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Read more:

• 2023 Candidate Profile: Matt Lowery For Commonwealth's Attorney
• 2023 Candidate Profile: Amy Ashworth For Commonwealth's Attorney