- Lead
- 7,936
- Total
- 39,525
- vs nation
- D+21.6
Virginia 27th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,810
- Total
- 42,459
- vs nation
- D+28.1
- Lead
- 10,183
- Total
- 37,201
- vs nation
- D+25.3
- Lead
- 5,183
- Total
- 31,985
- vs nation
- D+12.3
- Lead
- 5,606
- Total
- 27,979
- vs nation
- D+12.8
- Lead
- 21
- Total
- 21,254
- vs nation
- D+2.4
- Lead
- 561
- Total
- 14,765
- vs nation
- R+4.3
- Lead
- 60
- Total
- 9,719
- vs nation
- R+9.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+20.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 84,0942024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,225 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 37.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $163,1162024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 42.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 26.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+83.5 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+28.7 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 26, VA · twin score 92.8
presidential history
Party record book
Virginia 27th 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
65.3%
27,711 votes · D+32.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 60.3%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
49.7%
10,553 votes · R+0.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 41.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
27,711votes
65.3% of the vote · D+32.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 23,012 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
15,076votes
38.1% of the vote · D+20.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 13,901 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
+28.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+32.5 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +25.3 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2004
−2.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+0.1 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · −12.3 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 27th 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 83.5 points in 1924 and a Republican high of 28.7 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 12.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 20.1 points.
A population of 84,094, a 42% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $163,116 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 26 and State House District 18.
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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