This election will be held on November 4, 2025. Incumbent Republican Delegate Will Davis faces a challenge from Democrat Eric Klotz in HD-39.

Virginia’s House District 39 spans the entirety of Franklin County, as well as portions of Roanoke and Bedford counties. In the 2024 election it remained a strong Republican district by double-digit margins.

Democrat Eric Klotz is a 24-year U.S. Navy combat veteran turned MRI technologist at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. He has been married to his wife for 29 years and is a father to two adult sons. Born in California and steeped in military discipline, he now channels that leadership into public service for Southwest Virginia. Klotz frames education as a universal right, calling for robust investment in public schools, competitive teacher pay, and classroom resources. He champions healthcare as a human right, and he supports expanding Medicaid, bolstering community health centers, lowering prescription costs, and funding mental-health and substance-use programs. On infrastructure, he vows to hold utility monopolies accountable and secure universal high-speed broadband, ensuring rural families aren’t left behind by corporate greed.

Eric Klotz calls for robust investment in public schools, ensuring competitive teacher pay and modern classroom resources.

He champions full Medicaid expansion and bolstered community health centers to guarantee healthcare as a human right. He supports prescription drug cost reforms to lower out-of-pocket expenses for rural families.

He advocates increased funding for mental health and substance use treatment programs across Virginia.
- He vows to hold utility monopolies accountable and secure universal high-speed broadband access for all communities. access for all communities.

The Opposition

Will Davis was elected to the House of Delegates in November 2023 and consistently votes for low-tax, fiscally restrained budgets, and increased funding for law enforcement. His platform centers on opposing new taxes, cutting “wasteful” spending, protecting parental rights in schools, and reducing regulations for small businesses and farmers. Progressive voters may withhold support due to his focus on tax cuts over social investments, resistance to boosting public-school resources, refusal to back climate action, and opposition to broader reproductive and labor rights.

Recommendation

Based on his commitment to progressive priorities like investing in education, expanding Medicaid, and holding utility monopolies accountable, Eric Klotz is the progressive candidate in this race.