- Lead
- 40,401
- Total
- 102,847
- vs nation
- D+40.8
Virginia 34th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 49,407
- Total
- 106,173
- vs nation
- D+42.1
- Lead
- 39,908
- Total
- 96,928
- vs nation
- D+39.1
- Lead
- 24,711
- Total
- 92,268
- vs nation
- D+22.9
- Lead
- 24,735
- Total
- 90,159
- vs nation
- D+20.2
- Lead
- 11,129
- Total
- 79,750
- vs nation
- D+16.4
- Lead
- 3,661
- Total
- 71,012
- vs nation
- D+4.6
- Lead
- 3,041
- Total
- 62,834
- vs nation
- R+3.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+39.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 216,3682024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,753 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 78.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $135,6612024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 43.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 18.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 20.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+65.6 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+29.1 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 13, MD · twin score 96.4
presidential history
Party record book
Virginia 34th 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
72.2%
76,695 votes · D+46.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 68.3%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
42.6%
33,987 votes · D+14.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 36.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
76,695votes
72.2% of the vote · D+46.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 70,212 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
33,987votes
42.6% of the vote · D+14.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 33,183 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
+42.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+46.5 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +40.8 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2004
−16.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+14.0 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · −20.2 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's 34th Senate District spans a mix of suburban and exurban communities where Republican presidential candidates have consistently outperformed statewide averages, posting a 6.5-point margin in 2024 across a population of roughly 216,000.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 65.6 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 29.1 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 39.3 points.
A population of 216,368, a 44% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $135,661 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 13 and State Senate District 39.
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 34th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/51034/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.