This election will be held on November 4, 2025. Incumbent Democratic Delegate Adele McClure faces a challenge from Republican Wendy Sigley in HD-2.

Virginia’s House District 2 covers northern Arlington County, taking in Ballston, Virginia Square, East Falls Church and adjacent neighborhoods in a dense, transit-oriented urban corridor. In the 2024 election Democratic presidential and senatorial nominees carried the district by comfortable double-digit margins.

Incumbent Democratic Delegate Adele McClure has represented the 2nd District in the Virginia House of Delegates since January 2024. She is the first Black person since Reconstruction and the first Asian American to serve Arlington County in the General Assembly. Before taking office, she served as Executive Director of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus. She was included on the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 List for Law & Policy and received the National Black Legislative Staff Leadership Council Top 22 of 2022 Award. Growing up the daughter of an early childhood educator and a Filipino immigrant veteran, she experienced poverty and periodic homelessness before becoming the first in her household to attend college. She holds a B.S. in economics from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she served as Student Body President. Grounded in her lived experience, she works with advocates and community leaders to break down barriers, expand human rights, and improve access to critical services across Virginia.
Committee Assignments: General Laws, Public Safety, Transportation

Delegate McClure supports expanding access to stable, safe, and affordable housing by capping late fees, strengthening tenant protections, preventing evictions, eliminating housing discrimination, and creating homeownership funds for historically excluded communities.
She advocates for fully funding public education mandates, raising teacher salaries above the national average, and providing wraparound services for students and families.
She pledges to protect and build on Medicaid expansion to ensure easy access to primary and specialty care, expand community-based mental health and disability services, and stand up to the insurance lobby.

She champions guaranteeing a living wage with benefits, expanding collective bargaining by repealing Virginia’s so-called right-to-work law, raising minimum wages (including for farm workers), and securing paid sick leave and paid family and medical leave.

She co-patroned and voted for the proposed Constitutional Amendments protecting reproductive freedom and marriage equality, automatically restoring voting rights to people upon release from incarceration.

The Opposition

Wendy Sigley is running for the first time on a generic “accountability” platform, and her background as a military spouse. However, she offers little beyond vague promises of more healthy food access, broader health-care options, and “fiscal responsibility.” In a district craving bold solutions like affordable housing, climate action, and universal health care, her campaign relies on repackaging GOP talking points without articulating any real policy details. Sigley’s hope to break through in deep-blue Arlington hinges more on empty slogans than on substantive plans to tackle the issues her constituents actually face.

Recommendation

Based on her impressive track record in office and strong community values, Adele McClure is the progressive candidate in this race.