Participation measured against the same-year citizen voting-age population. Audited cycles count total general-election participants — ballots or participating voters, not presidential candidate votes.
2018–20243 cycles · 3 audited
2024 turnout
87.2%24,066 participants ÷ 27,592 CVAP
Participation by cycle
Presidential Midterm
0%20%40%60%80%100%
74.9%
61.0%
201820222024
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Cycle
Participants
CVAP
Turnout
Series
Quality
24,066
27,592 ± 1,017
87.2%
Audited
E/A
2022Mid
14,780
24,225 ± 996
61.0%
Audited
E/A
2018Mid
12,617
16,852 ± 673
74.9%
Audited
E/A
Sources and methods
2024: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 323/229.
2022: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 322/184.
2018: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 320/139.
presidential history
Party record book
Fuquay-Varina, NC · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
2004–2024 · 6 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
49.1%
11,657 votes · D+0.2
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 47.8%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
63.1%
5,889 votes · R+26.3
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 56.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
11,657votes
49.1% of the vote · D+0.2
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 9,616 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
11,600votes
48.9% of the vote · D+0.2
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 10,036 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
+1.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+0.2 · U.S. R+1.5
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · −6.5 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2004
+23.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+26.3 · U.S. R+2.5
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · +18.4 pts
U.S. House elections · 1 House
U.S. House
Each row shows U.S. House votes counted inside this Place. “Vote lead” is the local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
Fuquay-Varina · which candidate this place backed in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain. The figures below are Wake County, North Carolina, the county containing Fuquay-Varina — Fuquay-Varina’s own primary vote sits inside those totals and is not separately reported.
Presidential nominating contests in Fuquay-Varina, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
Fuquay-Varina has more than doubled its population since 2010, drawing relocating families into a corridor that has gradually shifted Wake County's competitive margins southward.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 0.2 points in 2024 and a Republican high of 26.3 points in 2004. Between 2020 and 2024 the city moved 2.3 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 0.2 points.
A population of 40,485, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $115,497 describe the city. The city's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Wake Forest and Shawnee.
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Political twins — cities
The cities whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
How did Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina vote in 2024?
In 2024, Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina voted a near-tie (D+0.2), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 23,732 votes cast, 11,657 went Democratic and 11,600 went Republican.
When did Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina voted Republican was 2020.
How many people live in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina?
Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina has a population of 40,485 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina?
Median household income in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina is $115,497 — above the national median of $80,734. The North Carolina state median is $72,388.
What is the political history of Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina?
Akashic tracks 6 presidential elections in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina from 2004 to 2024. Of those, 1 went Democratic and 5 went Republican.
