- Lead
- 3,825
- Total
- 48,147
- vs nation
- R+6.5
Virginia 83rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,091
- Total
- 48,175
- vs nation
- R+6.7
- Lead
- 267
- Total
- 44,985
- vs nation
- R+2.7
- Lead
- 3,777
- Total
- 46,918
- vs nation
- D+4.2
- Lead
- 4,073
- Total
- 45,740
- vs nation
- D+1.6
- Lead
- 385
- Total
- 37,828
- vs nation
- D+1.4
- Lead
- 640
- Total
- 32,952
- vs nation
- D+1.4
- Lead
- 4,801
- Total
- 31,474
- vs nation
- D+6.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+7.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 92,1882024 5-year
- Population density
- 41 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2,238 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $70,6062024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 52.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 40.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+84.0 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+29.7 in 1880MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 128, GA · twin score 93.4
presidential history
Party record book
Virginia 83rd 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
54.0%
24,700 votes · D+8.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 53.5%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
53.6%
25,799 votes · R+7.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 50.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2012
25,088votes
53.5% of the vote · D+8.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 24,700 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
25,799votes
53.6% of the vote · R+7.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 24,393 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
+4.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+8.1 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · +1.6 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+6.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+2.3 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +6.5 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 83rd 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 84.0 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 29.7 points in 1880. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.9 points.
A population of 92,188, a 52% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,606 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 128 and State House District 5.
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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