- Lead
- 13,704
- Total
- 52,705
- vs nation
- R+24.5
Virginia 61st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 11,130
- Total
- 51,115
- vs nation
- R+26.2
- Lead
- 12,254
- Total
- 43,703
- vs nation
- R+30.1
- Lead
- 9,197
- Total
- 41,128
- vs nation
- R+26.2
- Lead
- 6,432
- Total
- 39,747
- vs nation
- R+23.5
- Lead
- 10,322
- Total
- 34,648
- vs nation
- R+27.3
- Lead
- 7,705
- Total
- 27,521
- vs nation
- R+28.5
- Lead
- 5,251
- Total
- 23,007
- vs nation
- R+31.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+26.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 84,6892024 5-year
- Population density
- 112 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 759 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $120,5852024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 77.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+61.7 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+43.9 in 1984MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 63, VA · twin score 89.3
presidential history
Party record book
Virginia 61st 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
Barack Obama2008
41.3%
16,420 votes · R+16.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 38.0%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
64.5%
22,356 votes · R+29.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 62.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
19,445votes
38.0% of the vote · R+21.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 19,210 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
32,914votes
62.4% of the vote · R+26.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 30,575 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
Barack Obama2008
−23.5pts D vs U.S.
Place R+16.2 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · −24.5 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+30.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+28.0 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +27.3 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 61st State House District sits in the Mid-Atlantic and Appalachia. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 61.7 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 43.9 points in 1984. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 26.0 points.
A population of 84,689, a 77% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $120,585 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 63 and State Legislative Subdistrict 2A.
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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