- Lead
- 35,347
- Total
- 106,031
- vs nation
- D+34.8
Virginia 35th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 48,649
- Total
- 113,836
- vs nation
- D+38.3
- Lead
- 42,258
- Total
- 108,361
- vs nation
- D+36.9
- Lead
- 25,049
- Total
- 103,770
- vs nation
- D+20.3
- Lead
- 25,109
- Total
- 101,232
- vs nation
- D+17.5
- Lead
- 9,937
- Total
- 90,100
- vs nation
- D+13.5
- Lead
- 1,860
- Total
- 80,379
- vs nation
- D+1.8
- Lead
- 1,464
- Total
- 70,944
- vs nation
- R+6.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+33.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 220,1422024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,325 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 50.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $147,7942024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 42.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 9.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 21.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+66.8 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+30.5 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 36, VA · twin score 96.3
presidential history
Party record book
Virginia 35th 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
70.3%
80,053 votes · D+42.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 66.3%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
44.1%
39,720 votes · D+11.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 37.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
80,053votes
70.3% of the vote · D+42.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · 71,791 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
39,720votes
44.1% of the vote · D+11.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 38,697 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
+38.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+42.7 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Hillary Clinton, 2016 · +36.9 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2004
−13.5pts R vs U.S.
Place D+11.0 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · −17.5 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 35th 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 66.8 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 30.5 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 33.3 points.
A population of 220,142, a 42% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $147,794 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 36 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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