- Lead
- 11,507
- Total
- 48,896
- vs nation
- D+25.0
Virginia 28th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 15,277
- Total
- 49,887
- vs nation
- D+26.2
- Lead
- 8,760
- Total
- 41,773
- vs nation
- D+18.9
- Lead
- 3,276
- Total
- 36,228
- vs nation
- D+5.2
- Lead
- 4,041
- Total
- 31,588
- vs nation
- D+5.5
- Lead
- 1,811
- Total
- 24,370
- vs nation
- R+5.0
- Lead
- 1,830
- Total
- 16,939
- vs nation
- R+11.3
- Lead
- 816
- Total
- 11,156
- vs nation
- R+15.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+23.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 87,3912024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,132 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 27.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $164,7002024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 54.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 7.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 12.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+73.8 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+35.0 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 29, VA · twin score 98.3
presidential history
Party record book
Virginia 28th 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
64.3%
32,087 votes · D+30.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 60.2%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
53.3%
12,985 votes · R+7.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 44.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
32,087votes
64.3% of the vote · D+30.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 29,442 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
17,935votes
36.7% of the vote · D+23.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 16,810 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
+26.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+30.6 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +25.0 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2004
+5.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+7.4 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · −5.2 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.
In 2024 it voted Democratic by D+23.4, against D+12.8 in 2008. Median household income was $181,765 in the 2024 ACS 5-year, among the higher figures for a state house district.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 73.8 points in 1924 and a Republican high of 35.0 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.5 points.
A population of 87,391, a 54% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $164,700 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 29 and State House District 26.
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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Virginia 28th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/51028/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.