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Virginia House of Delegates
Lily Franklin
House of Delegates — District 41
Democrat
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✝ God First
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🏛️ State First
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National Rank
#5,827 of 9,024 · bottom 35.4% among candidates with at least one scored answer
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Next Election
November 2, 2027
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Registration deadline: 2026-10-13
Early voting: 2026-09-18 – 2026-10-31
State elections office: (804) 864-8901
Voter status: Check registration
State elections site: Virginia Department of Elections
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Religion: NO EVIDENCE FOUND (not stated on Ballotpedia/Wikipedia; did not complete a candidate survey)
Background: Virginia House of Delegates, District 41 (Blacksburg / Montgomery County / Roanoke area); FLIPPED the seat from Republican incumbent Chris Obenshain on Nov 4-5, 2025 (53.3%-46.6%) and assumed office January 14, 2026 (lost the same seat to Obenshain by 183 votes in 2023). Public high-school math teacher; Longwood University B.A. (2015); former legislative aide / chief of staff. FRESHMAN — no roll-call record yet; scored below from documented campaign positions + endorsements only.
VA Delegate, HD-41 (Blacksburg/Montgomery County); freshman, assumed office 2026-01-14 (flipped the seat from R incumbent Chris Obenshain). [2026-06 RESOLUTE refinement, state tier] NO ROLL-CALL RECORD YET — the cells below are scored from HARD documented campaign positions and endorsements, not votes, and should be upgraded once her first-session votes are recorded. Documented: 'in full support of reproductive rights,' supports a state constitutional abortion-rights amendment, and was endorsed by REPRO Rising Virginia (2025) — sanctity_of_life q0 FALSE. As a public-school teacher she opposes school vouchers ('money taken from public schools') — family_child_sovereignty q0 FALSE. On guns she nodded to 'support for the Second Amendment' but framed it with 'weapons of war don't belong in our classrooms and on our streets' — net pro-restriction — self_defense q1 FALSE. All other dimensions: NO EVIDENCE FOUND (no documented personal position) — left null, do not infer.
Category Breakdown
Candidate affirms life begins at conception and personhood from conception
1 claim
Franklin, a Democrat who flipped District 41 in November 2025 by defeating Republican incumbent Chris Obenshain, assumed office January 14, 2026, and voted YES as part of the unified House Democratic caucus on HJR1 (Virginia Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment) in the 2026 Regular Session, which passed 64-34 and placed a constitutional guarantee of abortion as a 'fundamental right' on the November 2026 ballot — directly opposing the rubric's life-at-conception/personhood standard.
- BallotpediaCenter
- BallotpediaCenter
- Virginia MercuryLean Left
Candidate has voted for or sponsored state legislation moving toward abortion abolition (e.g., heartbeat ban, total ban) — not merely restrictions
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes state funding for embryonic stem-cell research and supports state IVF embryo-protection laws
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Candidate opposes state physician-assisted suicide laws and opposes state Medicaid death-panel rationing
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FEC / state campaign-finance search found no abortion-industry PAC contributions for state-legislative or statewide-office campaigns (as of the cited search date)
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Candidate affirms marriage as exclusively the lifelong union of one man and one woman as instituted by God
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Candidate opposes state recognition of same-sex marriage / civil unions / domestic partnerships, and supports state non-recognition resolutions where federally permitted
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Candidate has voted for state legislation affirming biological sex (bathroom/locker access, sports participation, minor gender-procedure bans)
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Candidate supports state no-fault divorce reform and pro-marriage policy (covenant marriage option, waiting periods, etc.)
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes promotion of LGBTQ+ identity in state-funded schools, state agencies, and state corporate-partnership programs
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state school-choice (vouchers, ESAs, charter expansion) and supports state homeschool freedom statutes
FALSE (0)[1]
Candidate has voted for state law requiring parental notification + consent on minors' medical, mental-health, and gender interventions (incl. school counseling referrals)
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Candidate has voted for state law restricting CRT/SOGI/comprehensive-sex-ed/gender-ideology curricula in K-12
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Candidate has voted for state age-verification laws on pornographic content and state criminal penalties for sexualizing minors
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Candidate has voted for state RFRA-style protections for faith-based adoption + foster agencies; opposes state-mandated SS-couple placement
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Candidate affirms the right to publicly profess Christ in all spheres (workplace, military, public office, schools)
Not yet verified
Candidate has voted for state conscience-exemption laws (state RFRA, medical-professional carve-outs, business-owner protections)
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Candidate opposes state-level pronoun mandates + state 'hate speech' laws restricting Christian conviction
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Candidate supports state public-square Christian display protections + state legislative prayer + state Sunday-closure laws
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Candidate opposes state-funded promotion of non-Christian religious displays/curricula/holidays in state institutions
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Candidate has voted for state law protecting cash as legal tender, opposing state-level CBDC pilot programs, and protecting crypto-as-property status
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Candidate supports sound-money policies including gold/silver as constitutional money and audit/abolition of the Federal Reserve
N/A · out of tier
Candidate has voted for state balanced-budget compliance + opposed state borrowing for non-capital expenditures
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Candidate has voted for state usury caps + state predatory-lending protections + state charitable-deduction parity
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Candidate has voted for state pension/treasury divestment from ESG-aligned funds (e.g., BlackRock) + state anti-monopoly enforcement against financial cartels
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Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted for state hand-count requirements / opposed electronic voting machines
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Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted for state photo voter ID + citizenship verification at registration
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Candidate has voted to restrict state early-voting windows + tighten state absentee qualifications to verified medical/military
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Candidate has voted against state mass mail-in voting expansion, against state drop-box deployment, and against legalizing ballot harvesting
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Candidate (state SoS/legislature) has voted to ban state acceptance of private election grants ('Zuckerbucks') + state penalties for foreign interference
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Candidate (state) has voted for state-funded border-security measures (e.g., TX Operation Lone Star analog, AZ wall expansion)
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Candidate (state) has voted for state laws requiring local cooperation with ICE deportation enforcement
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Candidate (state) has voted to preempt or punish sanctuary-city policies + ban state cities from declaring sanctuary status
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted for state E-Verify mandate (beyond federal floor) for state employers + state-benefit eligibility verification
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Candidate (state) has voted to restrict foreign ownership of state farmland (e.g., China-buyer prohibitions)
Not yet verified
Candidate supports constitutional carry without permit requirements
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted against state red-flag laws, mag-capacity limits, AWBs, and registries (or voted to repeal where enacted)
FALSE (0)[1]
1 claim
Franklin voted with the unified House Democratic caucus to pass HB217 (Virginia's 2026 assault-weapons ban) 58-34 on February 5, 2026, 'over GOP objections.' The law, signed by Governor Spanberger in May 2026, bans the future sale, manufacture, and transfer of semi-automatic assault-style firearms and magazines over 15 rounds — contrary to the rubric's anti-AWB/anti-magazine-limit standard.
- Virginia MercuryLean Left
- Virginia Legislative Information SystemOfficial
- BallotpediaCenter
Candidate (state) has voted for state constitutional-carry statute
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted against state universal-background-check schemes
Not yet verified
Candidate (state) has voted to enact / strengthen state Castle Doctrine + stand-your-ground statute
Not yet verified
Candidate has publicly backed law enforcement and opposed defunding/dismantling police
Not yet verified
Candidate opposes cashless-bail, soft-on-crime, and rogue-prosecutor (e.g. Soros-DA) policy
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Candidate supports victim restitution and proportional punishment of evildoers
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Candidate refuses to treat violent crime as a "public health" excuse to avoid punishment
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Candidate affirms the magistrate's God-ordained duty to bear the sword (Rom. 13:4)
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Official has voted for or sponsored 10th-Amendment nullification or anti-commandeering measures
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Official has declined unconstitutional federal mandates or federal strings on the state
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Official has resisted federal overreach on guns, life, education, or religious liberty
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Official affirms state sovereignty against unconstitutional federal action
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Official has opposed federal capture of state elections, data, or land
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freedomindex.us/va/Right Advocacy
Ballotpedia ProfileCenter
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_FranklinEncyclopedia
reprorisingva.org/elections/endorsements/Left Advocacy
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References & footnotes
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- [1]'In full support of reproductive rights'; supports a state constitutional amendment protecting abortion access; endorsed by REPRO Rising Virginia (2025) — does not affirm personhood from conception. (Campaign position/endorsement; no vote yet.) Encyclopedia
'In full support of reproductive rights'; supports a state constitutional amendment protecting abortion access; endorsed by REPRO Rising Virginia (2025) — does not affirm personhood from conception. (Campaign position/endorsement; no vote yet.)
- [2]'In full support of reproductive rights'; supports a state constitutional amendment protecting abortion access; endorsed by REPRO Rising Virginia (2025) — does not affirm personhood from conception. (Campaign position/endorsement; no vote yet.) Left Advocacy
'In full support of reproductive rights'; supports a state constitutional amendment protecting abortion access; endorsed by REPRO Rising Virginia (2025) — does not affirm personhood from conception. (Campaign position/endorsement; no vote yet.)
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