- Lead
- 3,470
- Total
- 111,617
- vs nation
- R+1.6
Virginia 20th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,655
- Total
- 110,079
- vs nation
- R+6.0
- Lead
- 9,551
- Total
- 99,183
- vs nation
- R+11.7
- Lead
- 7,081
- Total
- 97,810
- vs nation
- R+11.1
- Lead
- 6,023
- Total
- 98,995
- vs nation
- R+13.4
- Lead
- 20,542
- Total
- 87,041
- vs nation
- R+21.1
- Lead
- 14,445
- Total
- 74,955
- vs nation
- R+19.8
- Lead
- 7,333
- Total
- 66,102
- vs nation
- R+19.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+3.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 216,9112024 5-year
- Population density
- 302 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 717 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $83,7492024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 66.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 15.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+74.6 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+54.4 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 26, VA · twin score 77.8
presidential history
Party record book
Virginia 20th 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
Joe Biden2020
48.2%
53,083 votes · R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 47.8%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
61.4%
53,464 votes · R+23.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 52.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
53,362votes
47.8% of the vote · R+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 53,083 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
56,832votes
50.9% of the vote · R+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 54,738 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
−1.6pts D vs U.S.
Place R+3.1 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · −6.0 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2004
+21.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+23.6 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +13.4 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 R+3.1, one of the narrower results among Virginia's state senate districts, compared with R+6.1 in 2008. The district had about 156,000 residents, 58% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 74.6 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 54.4 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 3.1 points.
A population of 216,911, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $83,749 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 26 and State Senate District 30.
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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