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1876–2024
Fauquier County, Virginia
Fauquier County·Virginia

Fauquier County voted Democratic for a century. The shift began with civil rights.

Exurban horse country that votes Republican by wide margins

18762024·38 elections
Fauquier County, Virginia · Antony-22 · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+22
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
74,577
2024 ACS
Most similar
Union County
PA · similarity 1.00
24 precincts · 44,768 votes cast
Trump · R+22
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−21.5%
17,18026,82544,768
2020R
−17.3%
17,56525,10643,661
2016R
−24.4%
12,97122,12737,460
2012R
−19.9%
13,96521,03435,555
2008R
−13.5%
14,61619,22734,219
2004R
−27.7%
10,71219,01129,915
2000R
−26.2%
8,29614,45623,481
1996R
−22.3%
6,75911,06319,258
1992R
−18.8%
6,60010,49720,759
1988R
−41.1%
4,83711,73316,796
1984R
−43.3%
4,05610,31914,451
1980R
−22.8%
4,1196,78211,670
1976R
−7.8%
4,0024,7159,111
1972R
−38.0%
2,0394,6546,873
1968R
−11.5%
2,0992,8456,501
1964D
+25.0%
3,5062,1015,613
1960R
−4.0%
1,9582,1234,094
1956R
−14.3%
1,5672,1123,802
1952R
−12.8%
1,5972,0683,675
1948D
+7.1%
1,2911,1022,667
1944D
+31.9%
2,1101,0893,204
1940D
+42.4%
1,8747562,637
1936D
+52.7%
2,0376292,672
1932D
+67.6%
1,9993792,396
1928D
+22.3%
1,5319722,503
1924D
+54.4%
1,2773451,713
1920D
+41.1%
1,3655681,941
1916D
+53.2%
1,2043671,574
1912D
+68.8%
1,1871821,461
1908D
+57.5%
1,3543631,723
1904D
+54.5%
1,2163571,576
1900D
+30.8%
2,6101,3773,997
1896D
+27.5%
2,7441,5534,328
1892D
+34.3%
2,8021,3484,238
1888
No data
1884
No data
1880
No data
1876
No data
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
Polish
0.6%
African American
5.0%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
0.0%
speak English only
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Catholic & Orthodox
9.5%
Other Christian
8.7%
Baptist
7.7%
Methodist
6.4%
Mainline Protestant
5.6%
Pentecostal & Holiness
1.9%
Non-Christian
0.4%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 59.8% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Fauquier sits at the outer edge of Northern Virginia's commuter belt, where working farms and estate properties define a landscape distinct from the dense suburbs closer to Washington — and its R+21.7 presidential margin reflects that rural-exurban character.

The shift began with civil rights. 1968 marked the realignment in Fauquier County, by a eleven points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at forty-three points in 1984. The 2024 margin was twenty-two points.

The political shift has tracked, in Fauquier County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 80% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $130,189, and a 7% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Union County and Aiken County.