- Lead
- 29,990
- Total
- 112,725
- vs nation
- D+28.1
Virginia 36th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 38,932
- Total
- 115,796
- vs nation
- D+29.2
- Lead
- 29,488
- Total
- 107,288
- vs nation
- D+25.4
- Lead
- 11,291
- Total
- 104,825
- vs nation
- D+6.9
- Lead
- 11,698
- Total
- 102,177
- vs nation
- D+4.2
- Lead
- 2,489
- Total
- 92,571
- vs nation
- R+0.2
- Lead
- 9,288
- Total
- 83,740
- vs nation
- R+11.6
- Lead
- 8,282
- Total
- 73,856
- vs nation
- R+19.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+26.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 212,3992024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,233 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 95.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $158,9712024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 46.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 12.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+48.4 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+42.7 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 35, VA · twin score 96.3
presidential history
Party record book
Virginia 36th 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
65.8%
76,156 votes · D+33.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 62.0%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
51.0%
47,187 votes · R+2.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 43.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
76,156votes
65.8% of the vote · D+33.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 69,875 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
47,187votes
51.0% of the vote · R+2.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 46,055 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
+29.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+33.6 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +28.1 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2004
+0.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+2.7 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · −4.2 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.
The district recorded a Democratic presidential margin of D+26.6 in 2024, compared with D+11.4 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with White residents at 49.1%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 48.4 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 42.7 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 26.6 points.
A population of 212,399, a 47% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $158,971 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 35 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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Virginia 36th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/51036/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.