- Lead
- 22,163
- Total
- 101,966
- vs nation
- D+23.2
Virginia 13th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 27,283
- Total
- 104,890
- vs nation
- D+21.6
- Lead
- 23,410
- Total
- 96,034
- vs nation
- D+22.3
- Lead
- 26,586
- Total
- 98,535
- vs nation
- D+23.1
- Lead
- 25,951
- Total
- 96,543
- vs nation
- D+19.6
- Lead
- 7,851
- Total
- 79,069
- vs nation
- D+12.4
- Lead
- 6,531
- Total
- 68,255
- vs nation
- D+9.0
- Lead
- 7,765
- Total
- 62,870
- vs nation
- D+3.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+21.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 214,1042024 5-year
- Population density
- 131 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,636 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $67,2012024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 38.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 49.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+73.7 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+32.7 in 1880MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 18, VA · twin score 96.0
presidential history
Party record book
Virginia 13th State Senate 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
63.1%
60,940 votes · D+26.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 63.1%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
44.8%
35,425 votes · D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 38.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
65,379votes
62.3% of the vote · D+26.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 62,173 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
39,453votes
38.7% of the vote · D+21.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 38,096 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
Kamala Harris2024
+23.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+21.7 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · +23.1 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2004
−12.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+9.9 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · −19.6 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 13th State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic and Appalachia. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 73.7 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 32.7 points in 1880. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 21.7 points.
A population of 214,104, a 39% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $67,201 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 18 and State Senate District 15.
The state-senate 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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