This election will be held on November 4, 2025. Incumbent Republican Delegate Tommy Wright faces a challenge from Democrat Earnadette Farrar and Independent Trudy Berry in HD-50.

Virginia’s House District 50 covers all of Mecklenberg, Charlotte, and Lunenburg counties, as well as portions of Halifax and Prince Edward counties. In the 2024 election it leaned Republican by double-digit margins.

Democrat Earnadette Farrar is a Mecklenburg County native. She is an educator and holds a degree in Sociology, an M.S. in Curriculum, and M.S. in Guidance and Counseling, and Doctor of Education in Educational Administration.

Education
Earnadette Farrar is a lifelong educator fighting for:
- Fully funded public schools
- Competitive pay for teachers and staff
- Safe, inclusive learning environments
- Broadband access for every child
- Support for mental health and social-emotional development

Economy and Inflation
She pledges to:
- Support small businesses and local jobs
- Invest in roads, water, broadband, and infrastructure
- Strengthen job training and workforce pathways
- Boost agriculture, farmers, and green innovation
- Invest in smart land use and green jobs

Health and Human Services
Farrar advocates to:
- Expand access to local clinics and telehealth
- Defend Medicaid and lower drug costs
- Support mental health for seniors, students, and veterans
- Champion maternal health care and preventive services

Other Issues
She believes in:
- Support community-based policing
- Push for transparency and fairness in courts
- Install clean air and water protections

Independent candidate Trudy Berry was born and raised in Michigan. She unsuccessfully ran for both the Virginia House of Delegates and Virginia State Senate. Berry is a U.S. Air Force veteran and received the Administrative Specialist Course Honor Graduate Award. Berry holds a B.S. in sociology with a concentration in criminal justice from Longwood University.

Constitutional Amendments
- Berry’s belief that the government should not interfere with reproductive healthcare decisions indicates she would vote in favor of HJ 1, which would enshrine reproductive rights in the Virginia Constitution.
- Berry’s support for restoring voting rights to returning citizens via a Constitutional amendment indicates she would vote in favor of HJ 2, which would automatically restore voting rights to people upon release from incarceration.
- Berry’s belief in marriage equality indicates she would vote in favor of HJ 9, which would repeal the Commonwealth’s defunct same-sex marriage ban and guarantee marriage equality for LGBTQ+ Virginians.

Education
Trudy Berry advocates for:
- Investing in school infrastructure
- Increasing teacher and staff pay
- Creating free student breakfast and lunch programs
- Diversifying education by better emphasizing trades training

Economy and Inflation
Berry believes that all people need jobs that pay a living wage. She wants to target corporate greed and price gouging related to groceries, lower loan and credit card interest rates, and lower taxes for people and increase taxes for large corporations.

Health and Human Services
Berry believes the government should not interfere with anyone’s personal decision regarding gender identity. She notes high profits and CEO salaries as drivers of the high cost of healthcare.

Other Issues
Berry supports commonsense measures to address gun violence.
She is against landfills being constructed in culturally and historically significant rural communities that will host out-of-state trash.
She advocates for rooftop solar and solar canopies over parking lots to reduce consumer energy costs, but does not want the General Assembly to have unilateral power to establish and prescribe them.

The Opposition

Incumbent Republican Delegate Tommy Wright has served in the House of Delegates since 2001. He was born in Richmond and holds a B.A. in political science from Old Dominion University. Delegate Wright previously served in the Lunenburg County Board. Key legislation:

Constitutional Amendments
- Voted against a bill to enshrine abortion rights in the Virginia Constitution
- Voted against a Constitutional amendment to restore voting rights to returning citizens
- Voted against enshrining equal marriage rights in the Virginia Constitution

Education
- Voted against a bill to raise teacher pay to the national average 
- Voted for a “forced outing” bill targeting transgender students
- Voted against increasing protections and support for cyberbullying
- Voted against authorizing public colleges and universities to prohibit guns on school property

Economy and Inflation
- Recorded as “Not Voting” on a bill to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2027
- Voted against a bill to establish paid family and medical leave
- Voted against a bill to repeal prohibitions on collective bargaining for public employees
- Voted against establishing regulatory bodies to establish a Virginia cannabis industry
- Voted against prohibiting landlords from requiring tenants to pay extra fees
- Voted against establishing the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act
- Voted against preserving local housing

Health and Human Services
- Recorded as “Not Voting” on a bill to establish a Prescription Drug Affordability Board
- Voted against establishing the right to access and use FDA-approved birth control
- Voted against requiring insurance providers to cover birth control

Other Issues
- Voted against establishing regulations for “high-risk” AI
- Voted against authorizing Ranked Choice Voting for certain local elections
- Voted against a bill that would require secure storage of guns in households where children live

Recommendation

As information on some candidates' stances and priorities was limited, we are unable to make a recommendation in this race. We encourage you to contact the candidates' offices and ask about the issues that matter to you most. Remember to vote in every race on your ballot.