Loudoun County

This election will be held on November 4, 2025. Republican incumbent Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears and former Democratic US Representative Abigail Spanberger will face each other in the general election for Governor of Virginia.

The Democratic nominee for Governor, Abigail Spanberger actually fights to expand healthcare and reproductive freedom instead of rolling over when conservatives threaten to restrict abortion rights. She’s committed to investing in clean energy, holding polluters accountable, and reducing energy costs for working families. Her gun-safety agenda goes far beyond “thoughts and prayers,” taking on the NRA head-on instead of cashing their donation checks. Spanberger’s pragmatic progressive vision gives suburban moderates and left-leaners tired of corporate centrism and culture-war theatrics a real reason to show up.

The Opposition

The Republican nominee for Governor, Winsome Earle-Sears is all about slashing taxes for big corporations while telling unemployed workers that losing a job is “no big deal.” She grandstands against critical race theory and “woke” classrooms to score culture-war points instead of tackling real education challenges. By waving her Marine Corps credentials, she sells herself as the ultimate tough-on-crime candidate, conveniently ignoring how lax gun laws endanger communities. Her true believers are MAGA zealots who think banning books, rolling back reproductive freedoms, and erasing civil liberties are more important than looking out for working families.

Recommendation

Due to her advocacy for abortion access, gun violence prevention, and clean energy, Abigail Spanberger is the progressive candidate in this race.

This election will be held on November 4, 2025. Democratic Virginia State Senator Ghazala Hashmi and Republican John Reid will face each other in the general election for Lt. Governor of Virginia.

The Democratic nominee for Lt. Governor, Ghazala Hashmi is fighting to pump real money into public schools instead of the right’s perennial budget cuts and culture-war book bans. She defends reproductive freedom and Medicaid expansion for working families while conservatives keep dialing back healthcare access and waving anti-abortion placards. Her clean-energy agenda and environmental-justice bills actually target polluters, not the customary GOP handouts to pipeline lobbyists. Dreamers, suburban progressives fed up with partisan hijinks, and anyone who’d trade culture-war theatrics for equity and opportunity will cheer her unapologetic stand for Virginia’s working families.

The Opposition

The Republican nominee for Lt. Governor, John Reid is a self-styled small-government crusader who’ll happily cut taxes for wealthy donors while pretending he’s doing the same for working Virginians. He rails against “woke” curriculum and critical race theory, because apparently teaching actual American history is more offensive to him than runaway inequality. He touts law-and-order credentials and celebrity as a conservative radio host, hawking gun rights like they’re the ultimate public-safety strategy. He even plans to torpedo constitutional protections for same-sex marriage, proving that an openly gay candidate will stab his own community in the back for party unity, the perfect pick for culture-war diehards who prefer corporate giveaways to real solutions for working families.

Recommendation

Due to her advocacy for public education, abortion access, and environmental justice, Ghazala Hashmi is the progressive candidate in this race.

This election will be held on November 4, 2025. Incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares faces a challenge from former Democratic Virginia State Delegate Jay Jones.

The Democratic nominee for Attorney General, Jay Jones has pledged to sue the Trump administration every time it infringes on the rights of Virginians. He’s secured victories for abortion access, expanded Medicaid to cover thousands more Virginians, and even wrote anti-price-gouging measures to keep corporate vultures in check. His public-safety plan pairs smart gun-violence prevention and community-based crime interventions rather than recycling the right’s tired “lock ’em up” mantra for political ads. Grassroots progressives, consumer-rights advocates, and anyone sick of endless culture-war stunts will line up behind a candidate who actually puts families over fear-mongering theatrics.

The Opposition

Incumbent Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares cozies up to ICE, shaming local authorities who don’t cooperate with Trump’s policies of mass deportation, because terrorizing immigrant families is apparently his idea of due process. He grandstands on opioid crackdowns but turns a blind eye to corporate-friendly loopholes that keep the drug pipeline flowing. He bills himself as a federalism champion when suing Washington over environmental rules, conveniently ignoring states’ rights whenever big donors flash a check. His true believers are tough-on-crime zealots who think more ICE raids, harsher sentencing, and tax cuts for the wealthy are the pinnacle of compassionate governance.

Recommendation

Due to his advocacy for abortion access, gun violence prevention, and Medicaid coverage, Jay Jones is the progressive candidate in this race.

This election will be held on November 4, 2025. Incumbent Democratic Delegate JJ Singh faces a challenge from Republican Ommair Butt in HD-26.

Virginia’s House District 26 lies entirely within Loudoun County in Northern Virginia, covering eastern suburbs such as Ashburn, Leesburg, and Sterling. In the 2024 election Democratic presidential and senatorial nominees carried the district by comfortable double-digit margins.

Incumbent Democrat Delegate JJ Singh was elected in this January’s special election. He began his public service journey as the first turbaned Sikh in the Peace Corps, later analyzed federal budgets at the White House Office of Management and Budget, advised Senator Chris Coons on economic policy, and now leads Retreat Hotels and Resorts. A graduate of the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Economics, he earned an M.P.A. from Harvard Kennedy School and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He lives in Loudoun County with his wife and two young daughters.
Committee Assignments: Health and Human Services, Privileges and Elections

Delegate Singh pledged to fight for affordable childcare, preserve high-quality public schools, and rein in skyrocketing college tuition and fees to keep education within reach for Virginia families. He promises he will champion common-sense gun safety legislation, close loopholes, and require safe storage to protect children and communities.

Delegate Singh supports building a clean economy by promoting renewable energy, sustainable construction, energy efficiency, and safeguarding ecosystems.

Delegate Singh co-sponsored bills to establish paid family and medical leave and repeal prohibitions on collective bargaining for public employees. He also voted in favor of a bill to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2027. He co-patroned the proposed Constitutional Amendments protecting reproductive freedom, marriage equality, and automatically restoring voting rights to people upon release from incarceration.

The Opposition

Ommair Butt’s platform emphasizes property-tax cuts, pro-business deregulation, expanded armed security in schools and places of worship, and strict parental-rights measures that bar transgender students from facilities that match their gender identity. Progressive voters may reject his anti-LGBTQ education stances, punitive security focus, and corporate-friendly tax agenda as undermining equity and civil rights. His limited attention to climate justice, immigrant protections, and voting-rights reforms further alienates those seeking comprehensive progressive change.

Recommendation

Based on his strong community values and commitment to focusing on equity as a legislator, Incumbent Democratic Delegate JJ Singh is the progressive candidate in this race.

This election will be held on November 4, 2025. Incumbent Democratic Delegate Atoosa Reaser faces a challenge from Republican Junaid Khan in HD-27.

Virginia’s House District 27 lies entirely within Loudoun County in Northern Virginia, spanning rural and suburban communities along the county’s northern and western edges, including Purcellville, Round Hill, and Hamilton. In the 2024 election Democratic nominees carried federal and statewide contests by comfortable double-digit margins.

Delegate Atoosa Reaser has served in the House of Delegates since 2024. She previously served on the Loudoun County School Board and served as Deputy Town Attorney for Herndon, practiced as a litigator, worked as Associate General Counsel, and is a guardian ad litem advocating for children’s best interests. A first-generation immigrant whose family fled Iran during the revolution, Reaser earned a B.A. from James Madison University and a J.D. from George Mason University Law School. She has volunteered as a PTA leader, substitute teacher, and merit badge counselor for her son’s Scouts troop.
Committee Assignments: Counties, Cities and Towns, Courts of Justice, Education

Delegate Reaser co-patroned HJ 1, to protect reproductive freedom. She co-patroned HJ 2, to automatically restore voting rights to people upon release from incarceration. She co-patroned HJ 9, to repeal the Commonwealth’s defunct same-sex marriage ban and guarantee marriage equality for LGBTQ+ Virginians.

Delegate Reaser champions clean-energy legislation by expanding EV charging infrastructure, deploying electric school buses, and incentivizing renewable development to mitigate climate impacts.

She authored safe gun storage legislation, co-patroned bans on ghost guns and assault weapons, and advocates for enhanced background checks and extreme risk protection orders to prevent gun violence.

She supports workforce development partnerships, paid family and medical leave, fair teacher compensation, and increased affordable housing to support sustainable community growth.

She prioritizes public education funding by expanding K-12 academic and arts programs, improving teacher pay, and investing in early childhood and preschool initiatives to strengthen learning outcomes

The Opposition

Junaid Khan’s campaign centers on giving parents, not teachers and experts, control over school curricula. He also supports pro-business tax cuts, Right-to-Work to prevent people from coming together in a union, and “Safe Streets” policies focused on law enforcement and drug crackdowns. He supports efforts to ban transgender students from sporting activities and accessing facilities that match their gender identity. Progressive voters may reject his culture-war education agenda, anti-labor economic stance, and punitive public safety approach as out of step with equity-driven climate, workers’ rights, and restorative justice goals.

Recommendation

Based on her strong community background and commitment to focusing on equity as a legislator, Incumbent Democratic Delegate Atoosa Reaser is the progressive candidate in this race.

This election will be held on November 4, 2025. Democratic Delegate David Reid is running for reelection unopposed in HD-28.

Virginia’s House District 28 lies entirely within Loudoun County in Northern Virginia, covering parts of Ashburn and adjacent suburban communities. In the 2024 election Democratic nominees carried both the presidential and senatorial contests in the district by comfortable double-digit margins.

Incumbent Democratic Delegate David Reid was first elected to the House of Delegates in 2017. He and his three siblings were placed in an orphanage when he was ten years old. He served 23 years as an Intelligence Officer in the US Navy Reserves, was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal three times, and retired as a full Commander. David and his wife have been married for 31 years and have lived in the same house in the Broadlands for 25 years, where they raised their two daughters.
Committee Assignments: Appropriations, Privileges and Elections, Transportation (Vice Chair; Highway Safety and Policy Chair)

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

He supports establishing Back-to-School and Hurricane Preparedness sales tax holidays and increasing college affordability.

He has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for local community projects in Loudoun, such as the Northern Virginia Science Museum at Kincora and capital investments for the Metro.

Delegate Reid passed the only state-wide reparations bill in the nation when he created the Enslaved Ancestors College Access Scholarship Program.

He patroned the Prime Agricultural Land Protection Act which creates a process to protect topsoil impacted by any underground pipeline and empowered the State Corporation Commission to require the use of Advanced Conductor Material for Transmission Lines, reducing the need for new right-of-ways.

The Opposition

At the time of this writing, we were unable to find information on Republican Janet Geisler's priorities or stances.

Recommendation

Based on his legislative and budgetary accomplishments in the service of Loudoun County, Incumbent Democratic Delegate David Reid is the progressive candidate in this race.

Virginia’s new 29th House of Delegates district encompasses parts of Loudoun County. With over 63,000 registered voters, this district leans Democratic.

This election will be held on November 4, 2025. Incumbent Democratic Delegate Marty Martinez faces a challenge from Republican Scott Thomas in HD-29.

Virginia’s House District 29 lies wholly within Loudoun County, encompassing the town of Leesburg and surrounding suburban and exurban communities. In the 2024 election Democratic nominees carried both the US presidential and senatorial contests decisively in the district.

Incumbent Democratic Delegate Marty Martinez was first elected to the House of Delegates in 2023. He previously served on the Leesburg Town Council. After high school, he enlisted in the United States Air Force. Through the GI Bill, Delegate Martinez earned B.S. degrees in Economics and Computer Science from Portland State University in Oregon. He worked as a government contractor supporting the Federal Aviation Administration. He is heavily involved in the Loudoun community. He and his wife have five children, nine grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Committee Assignments: Communications, Technology and Innovation; Counties, Cities and Towns

Delegate Martinez co-patroned HJ 1, to protect reproductive freedom. He co-patroned HJ 2, to automatically restore voting rights to people upon release from incarceration. He also co-patroned HJ 9, to repeal the Commonwealth’s defunct same-sex marriage ban and guarantee marriage equality for LGBTQ+ Virginians.

Delegate Martinez is a champion for reproductive freedom and pledges to safeguard abortion access and reproductive healthcare.

He has promised to expand affordable housing opportunities, address homelessness, and ensure every Virginian has a safe, stable place to call home.

He advocates for accessible, comprehensive healthcare that reduces disparities and strengthens mental health services. He voted to establish the right to access and use FDA-approved birth control and require state health insurance plans to cover all FDA-approved birth control. He also patroned legislation that would expand health insurance coverage for non-opioid prescription drugs.

Delegate Martinez is committed to robust public education funding from early childhood through higher education, supporting teachers, and making college more affordable. He has commissioned studies on student mental health and provided confidential resource advisors to college students.

The Opposition

Republican Army veteran Scott Thomas claims to support greater equity in education, voter protection, and small businesses, but he has not provided detailed policy proposals on those topics. He also describes himself as “pro-life,” a euphemism for opposing reproductive rights.

Recommendation

Based on his years of service as a local elected official and his pledges to support causes of equity in the General Assembly, Incumbent Democratic Delegate Marty Martinez is the progressive candidate in this race.

Virginia’s new 30th House of Delegates district encompasses parts of Loudoun County and Fauquier County. With over 63,000 registered voters, this district leans Republican.

This election will be held on November 4, 2025. Incumbent Republican Delegate Geary Higgins faces a challenge from Democrat John Chilton McAuliff in HD-30.

Virginia’s House District 30 covers portions of Loudoun and Fauquier counties. In the 2024 election, it leaned Republican by narrow single-digit margins.

Democrat John McAuliff studied at the University of Richmond. After college, he returned home to care for his grandmother, converting her family house into Chilton House Suites, which has welcomed over 10,000 visitors and boosted local businesses. During the pandemic, led a local economic development group while volunteering with the Loudoun Medical Reserve Corps. He spent three years as Chief of Staff to Delegate David Reid, served on the Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Team, and in President Biden’s Office of Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation.

John McAuliff has championed Main Street prosperity through his leadership of local economic development groups, his support for legislation giving first-time entrepreneurs tax credits for new businesses, as well as tax credits for first-time home buyers in rural areas.

As a former Senior Advisor at the US Department of Agriculture, he is committed to protecting prime farmland from data center developments by expanding conservation easements. He has also committed to regulating utility monopolies to lower bills and cut red tape to boost renewable energy development.

As a member of the Loudoun Medical Reserve Corps, he has pledged to increase funding and access to mental healthcare in schools and hospitals.

He has promised to reinstate the college tuition freeze in Virginia and to halt the growth of student debt.

McAuliff has committed to supporting HJ 1, which would enshrine reproductive rights in the Virginia Constitution.

The Opposition

Incumbent Republican Delegate Geary Higgins was first elected in 2023 after serving on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors and School Board. Progressive voters may oppose his focus on business tax cuts over public investments, resistance to criminal justice reforms, and support for strict parental controls in schools. His alignment with Governor Youngkin’s agenda and reluctance to expand reproductive and social services risks alienating constituents seeking equity-driven policy solutions.

Recommendation

Based on his years of community leadership and his pledges to support equity causes in the General Assembly, John McAuliff is the progressive candidate in this race.