- Lead
- 1,830
- Total
- 43,953
- vs nation
- D+5.6
Virginia 82nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,969
- Total
- 44,356
- vs nation
- D+6.7
- Lead
- 5,786
- Total
- 41,446
- vs nation
- D+11.9
- Lead
- 10,208
- Total
- 43,429
- vs nation
- D+19.7
- Lead
- 9,901
- Total
- 42,421
- vs nation
- D+16.1
- Lead
- 2,761
- Total
- 34,504
- vs nation
- D+10.5
- Lead
- 3,397
- Total
- 30,114
- vs nation
- D+10.8
- Lead
- 4,777
- Total
- 27,746
- vs nation
- D+8.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+4.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 85,1502024 5-year
- Population density
- 91 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 931 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $66,4492024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 44.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 44.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+73.9 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+40.0 in 1880MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 90, SC · twin score 96.2
presidential history
Party record book
Virginia 82nd 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 Obama2012
61.3%
26,623 votes · D+23.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 61.2%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
47.5%
20,862 votes · D+4.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 45.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
26,623votes
61.3% of the vote · D+23.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 25,968 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
20,862votes
47.5% of the vote · D+4.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 19,439 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 Obama2012
+19.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+23.5 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · +16.1 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2024
−5.6pts R vs U.S.
Place D+4.2 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · −6.7 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.
The 2024 presidential margin was D+4.2, one of the narrower results among Virginia's state house districts, compared with D+23.3 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with Black residents at 46.7%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 73.9 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 40.0 points in 1880. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 4.2 points.
A population of 85,150, a 44% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $66,449 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 90 and State House District 72.
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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