- Lead
- 18,433
- Total
- 43,117
- vs nation
- D+44.2
Virginia 17th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 22,171
- Total
- 44,955
- vs nation
- D+44.9
- Lead
- 17,936
- Total
- 41,360
- vs nation
- D+41.3
- Lead
- 11,567
- Total
- 39,131
- vs nation
- D+25.7
- Lead
- 11,540
- Total
- 38,233
- vs nation
- D+22.9
- Lead
- 5,692
- Total
- 33,692
- vs nation
- D+19.4
- Lead
- 2,414
- Total
- 29,953
- vs nation
- D+7.5
- Lead
- 2,030
- Total
- 26,469
- vs nation
- R+0.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+42.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 84,1702024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,894 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 17.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $141,5902024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 46.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 16.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 17.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+61.3 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+26.7 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Legislative District 13, MD · twin score 97.5
presidential history
Party record book
Virginia 17th State House District · 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
Joe Biden2020
73.6%
33,093 votes · D+49.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 70.0%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
41.1%
13,855 votes · D+16.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 34.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
33,093votes
73.6% of the vote · D+49.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 30,177 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
13,855votes
41.1% of the vote · D+16.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 13,520 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
Joe Biden2020
+44.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+49.3 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +44.2 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2004
−19.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+16.9 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · −22.9 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
Virginia 17th State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic and Appalachia. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 61.3 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 26.7 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 42.8 points.
A population of 84,170, a 46% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $141,590 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Legislative District 13 and State Legislative Subdistrict 12A.
The state-house districts 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.
District research tools
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