- Lead
- 32,203
- Total
- 126,032
- vs nation
- R+24.1
Virginia 28th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 26,416
- Total
- 119,369
- vs nation
- R+26.6
- Lead
- 28,036
- Total
- 99,901
- vs nation
- R+30.2
- Lead
- 19,088
- Total
- 93,390
- vs nation
- R+24.3
- Lead
- 13,216
- Total
- 89,831
- vs nation
- R+22.0
- Lead
- 22,172
- Total
- 75,936
- vs nation
- R+26.7
- Lead
- 15,786
- Total
- 60,452
- vs nation
- R+26.6
- Lead
- 9,384
- Total
- 50,211
- vs nation
- R+27.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+25.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 211,8932024 5-year
- Population density
- 109 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,936 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $103,2522024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 74.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 9.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+54.9 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+45.7 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 1, VA · twin score 89.7
presidential history
Party record book
Virginia 28th 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
42.1%
37,788 votes · R+14.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 39.0%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
64.2%
48,722 votes · R+29.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 62.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
46,289votes
36.7% of the vote · R+25.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 45,311 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
78,492votes
62.3% of the vote · R+25.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 71,727 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
−22.0pts D vs U.S.
Place R+14.7 · U.S. D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · −24.1 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+30.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+28.1 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +26.7 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.
Virginia 28th State Senate District sits in the Mid-Atlantic and Appalachia. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 54.9 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 45.7 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 25.6 points.
A population of 211,893, a 74% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $103,252 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 1 and State Senate District 31.
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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Virginia 28th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/51028/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.