Alexandria city, Virginia

2024 results by precinct

32 precincts · 80,904 votes cast

Harris · D+57

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	D	+57.1%	62,326	16,112	80,904
2020	D	+62.7%	66,240	14,544	82,508
2016	D	+58.0%	57,242	13,285	75,762
2012	D	+43.5%	52,199	20,249	73,411
2008	D	+44.5%	50,473	19,181	70,364
2004	D	+34.6%	41,116	19,844	61,515
2000	D	+26.4%	33,633	19,043	55,199
1996	D	+27.3%	27,968	15,554	45,399
1992	D	+26.7%	30,784	16,700	52,675
1988	D	+7.5%	24,358	20,913	45,804
1984	D	+5.3%	23,552	21,166	45,253
1980	R	−1.8%	17,134	17,865	40,388
1976	D	+7.9%	19,858	16,880	37,910
1972	R	−50.7%	1,431	4,553	6,156
1968	D	+3.4%	14,351	13,265	31,816
1964	R	−1.3%	2,879	2,958	5,863
1960	D	+4.5%	9,662	8,826	18,551
1956	R	−7.2%	7,451	8,633	16,449
1952	R	−14.0%	6,471	8,579	15,072
1948	D	+0.2%	3,917	3,903	8,707
1944	D	+12.6%	4,391	3,405	7,823
1940	D	+37.8%	4,004	1,802	5,831
1936	D	+46.4%	3,381	1,225	4,650
1932	D	+41.6%	2,941	1,199	4,184
1928	R	−10.6%	1,307	1,617	2,924
1924	D	+29.6%	1,136	556	1,960
1920	D	+20.8%	1,417	921	2,379
1916	D	+47.7%	1,038	364	1,412
1912	D	+68.2%	951	132	1,201
1908	D	+65.9%	1,218	247	1,473
1904	D	+59.1%	738	187	932
1900	D	+36.3%	2,003	935	2,944
1896	D	+17.3%	1,830	1,281	3,180
1892	D	+25.9%	1,982	1,162	3,163
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

1.6%

African American

17.0%

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.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 37.7 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.4%

85+

0.9%

1.8%

75–84

2.2%

3.5%

65–74

4.3%

5.4%

55–64

5.7%

6.6%

45–54

6.7%

9.4%

35–44

9.3%

9.5%

25–34

10.4%

2.7%

18–24

3.1%

6.0%

5–17

5.6%

3.3%

3.2%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$119,681

Alexandria city ranks in the top 0.5% of US counties.

Alexandria city$119,681

Virginia$93,170

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

7.9%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

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

12.1%

Baptist

8.2%

Mainline Protestant

7.7%

Non-Christian

4.3%

Other Christian

3.4%

Methodist

3.3%

Pentecostal & Holiness

0.9%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 60.1% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

This independent city across the Potomac from Washington, D.C., delivered a 57-point Democratic margin in 2024, driven by a dense, highly educated, and majority-minority electorate concentrated in one of the region's oldest urban cores.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Alexandria city peaked at sixty-eight points in 1912; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 1984 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of five points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Alexandria city's median household income of $119,681 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Arlington County and King County.

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For twenty-eight years, Alexandria city voted Republican. Then it stopped.