 He received 15,549 votes while Harris received 8,979 votes, or 36.5% of the vote.This was (and remains, as of 2019) the strongest Democratic performance in the strongly Republican 18th district since 2001, when Peter B. Schwartz of Marshall won 37.3% of the vote in a three-way race against Athey and independent candidate Jerry M. Wood of Warrenton (who had previously served one term in the House of Delegates as a Democrat from 1992 to 1994).Webert ran unopposed in the 2015 election, winning 96.9% of the vote.