- Lead
- 17,294
- Total
- 101,964
- vs nation
- D+18.4
Virginia 29th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 25,647
- Total
- 102,554
- vs nation
- D+20.6
- Lead
- 15,986
- Total
- 88,351
- vs nation
- D+16.0
- Lead
- 10,934
- Total
- 81,336
- vs nation
- D+9.6
- Lead
- 9,920
- Total
- 73,504
- vs nation
- D+6.2
- Lead
- 5,068
- Total
- 59,917
- vs nation
- R+6.0
- Lead
- 4,491
- Total
- 45,448
- vs nation
- R+10.4
- Lead
- 3,039
- Total
- 35,421
- vs nation
- R+17.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+17.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 210,1582024 5-year
- Population density
- 804 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 261 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $136,0172024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 38.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 21.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 24.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+67.8 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+46.8 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 33, VA · twin score 90.6
presidential history
Party record book
Virginia 29th 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
61.6%
63,189 votes · D+25.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 57.2%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
53.8%
32,262 votes · R+8.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · 42.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
63,189votes
61.6% of the vote · D+25.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 58,286 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
40,992votes
40.2% of the vote · D+17.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 37,542 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
Joe Biden2020
+20.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+25.0 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +18.4 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2004
+6.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+8.5 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · −6.2 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 29th 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 67.8 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 46.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 17.0 points.
A population of 210,158, a 39% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $136,017 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 33 and State Senate District 34.
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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