- Lead
- 57,625
- Total
- 103,376
- vs nation
- D+57.2
Virginia 39th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 66,025
- Total
- 107,040
- vs nation
- D+57.2
- Lead
- 57,143
- Total
- 98,932
- vs nation
- D+55.7
- Lead
- 40,879
- Total
- 95,577
- vs nation
- D+38.9
- Lead
- 40,503
- Total
- 91,468
- vs nation
- D+37.0
- Lead
- 27,393
- Total
- 79,701
- vs nation
- D+36.8
- Lead
- 18,440
- Total
- 71,205
- vs nation
- D+25.4
- Lead
- 15,777
- Total
- 59,684
- vs nation
- D+17.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+55.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 220,5592024 5-year
- Population density
- 10,604 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 20.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $117,3152024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 46.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 17.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 20.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+65.7 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+16.9 in 1952MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 40, VA · twin score 97.0
presidential history
Party record book
Virginia 39th 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
79.8%
85,400 votes · D+61.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 76.7%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
32.4%
25,795 votes · D+34.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 28.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
85,400votes
79.8% of the vote · D+61.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 79,341 votes
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
26,715votes
28.0% of the vote · D+42.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 25,795 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
+57.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+61.7 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +57.2 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2004
−36.8pts R vs U.S.
Place D+34.4 · U.S. R+2.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · −37.0 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 39th 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 65.7 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 16.9 points in 1952. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 55.7 points.
A population of 220,559, a 47% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $117,315 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 40 and State Senate District 12.
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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