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Leslie Mehta
Leslie Mehta (Democratic Party) is running for election to the Virginia House of Delegates to represent District 73. She is on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025.[source] She advanced from the Democratic primary on June 17, 2025.
Biography
Leslie Mehta was born in Woodlake, North Carolina. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina in 1999 and a law degree from Howard University in 2002. Her career experience includes working as an attorney at law. She has been affiliated with the Chesterfield County Democratic Committee, Intl Retts Syndrome Foundation Board, and Va Rare Disease Board.[1]
Elections
2025
See also: Virginia House of Delegates elections, 2025
General election
General election for Virginia House of Delegates District 73
Incumbent Mark Earley Jr. and Leslie Mehta are running in the general election for Virginia House of Delegates District 73 on November 4, 2025.
Candidate | ||
 | Mark Earley Jr. (R) | |
 | Leslie Mehta (D) | |
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Virginia House of Delegates District 73
Leslie Mehta defeated Justin Woodford in the Democratic primary for Virginia House of Delegates District 73 on June 17, 2025.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Leslie Mehta | 76.4 | 5,341 |
 | Justin Woodford | 23.6 | 1,653 | |
| Total votes: 6,994 | |||
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Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Mark Earley Jr. advanced from the Republican primary for Virginia House of Delegates District 73.
Campaign finance
Endorsements
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2024
See also: Virginia's 1st Congressional District election, 2024
Virginia's 1st Congressional District election, 2024 (June 18 Democratic primary)
Virginia's 1st Congressional District election, 2024 (June 18 Republican primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Virginia District 1
Incumbent Robert J. Wittman defeated Leslie Mehta in the general election for U.S. House Virginia District 1 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Robert J. Wittman (R) | 56.3 | 269,657 |
| Leslie Mehta (D) | 43.5 | 208,445 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 804 | ||
| Total votes: 478,906 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Virginia District 1
Leslie Mehta defeated Herb Jones in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Virginia District 1 on June 18, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Leslie Mehta | 66.6 | 15,253 |
 | Herb Jones | 33.4 | 7,653 | |
| Total votes: 22,906 | |||
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Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Robert J. Wittman advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Virginia District 1.
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2025
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2024
Leslie Mehta completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Mehta's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Protecting democracy
- Ensuring and protecting reproductive freedom, including access to contraception Ensuring every family can thrive and this includes access to affordable quality healthcare, including mental healthcare and prescription drugs. It includes ensuring every child, no matter their zip code or skin color has access to a top notch public education. It includes safe communities and reasonable gun violence prevention. It includes making sure everyone has clean air and water and that we are fighting climate change.
- Ensuring and protecting reproductive freedom, including access to contraception. It means that women's healthcare should not and must not be controlled by politicians but by women and their doctors.
You need to put constituents and their needs before yourself and before political party and before political gain. Being an elected official is an honor, a privilege, but most important, a responsibility to work everyday to improve the lives of those who elected you and for all Americans.
I'm hard working and diligent and when I make a commitment to someone, I stick to it.
We need to make sure health care is accessible and our daughters should not have fewer rights than we did - we need reproductive freedom.
We also need to protect our democracy and not risk our country turning authoritarian. We need to prioritize working together, listening and building and strengthening relationships, even with people with whom we disagree to find better and stronger solutions.
Gerrymandering has made the House less representative of Americans.
Financial transparency is one step in holding the government accountable. When Americans can see how their money (and, yes, it is their money) is being spent then they can be more knowledgeable about their votes and who they want to represent them.
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Campaign website
Mehta’s campaign website stated the following:
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ACCESSIBLE, AFFORDABLE & QUALITY HEALTHCARE FOR EVERYONE Including mental healthcare and low-cost prescription medication.
All children should receive a first rate public education, and we must ensure all schools have the resources they need to succeed.
DEFENDING & EXPANDING ACCESS TO REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM Protecting quality maternal healthcare, the fundamental right to abortion, and contraception, so women can make the decisions best for themselves, their families, and their futures.
It is far past the time to do something about the proliferation of guns and gun violence in our communities.
Ensuring we leave behind a safe and inhabitable earth for future generations.
Good paying jobs, a reduced inflation rate, and safe, affordable housing so every family can thrive.
Defending the strength of our democracy, safeguarding voting rights, and ensuring each vote counts.
Virginians, and Americans across the country, should be treated with fairness, justice and respect, no matter their skin color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity. [2] |
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| —Leslie Mehta’s campaign website (2024)[3] | ||
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2025 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 2, 2024
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Leslie Mehta for Congress, “Home,” accessed June 13, 2024
