Virginia 7th Congressional District (VA) — Elections 1876–2024

2024 presidential election

Virginia 7th Congressional District

HarrisD+2.8

2024

How it voted

Share of the 2024 vote

Kamala Harris ✓Democratic	50.3%	203,206
Donald TrumpRepublican	47.5%	191,700
OtherAll other candidates	2.2%	9,067

D+60

R+60

District boundary, filled by its own 2024 D-vs-R margin — precinct detail where available, over the 11 counties it's drawn from (shown faint).

The precinct map shows the 2024 presidential vote; the timeline scrubs the district’s overall result across 1876–2024, on its current boundaries.

presidential history

Presidential margin, 2008–2024

Democratic minus Republican, by election

Presidential margin over time
Year	Margin (D minus R)
2008	+5.6%
2012	+4.5%
2016	+2.2%
2020	+7.1%
2024	+2.8%

DemocraticRepublican

current representation

Current officeholders

Eugene Simon Vindman

U.S. House · VA-07 · Democratic

Mark R. Warner

U.S. Senate · Democratic

Timothy Michael (tim) Kaine

U.S. Senate · Democratic

Federal officeholders only. State and local officeholders are planned for the next data pass.

Source · Voteview HSall_members.csv.

5 presidential elections

Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024).
Year	Won	Democratic	Republican	Other	Margin	Total
2024	D	50.3%Harris203,206	47.5%Trump191,700	2.2%	+2.8%	403,973
2020	D	52.6%Biden206,422	45.5%Trump178,582	1.9%incl. Jorgensen	+7.1%	392,582
2016	D	48.2%Clinton158,993	46.0%Trump151,845	5.8%incl. Johnson	+2.2%	329,812
2012	D	52.0%Obama156,962	47.5%Romney143,394	0.4%	+4.5%	301,686
2008	D	52.3%Obama149,863	46.7%McCain133,691	1.0%	+5.6%	286,318

Congressional elections · 25 House races · 17 Senate races

U.S. House

Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), House. CC-BY 4.0.
Year	District	Won	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	7	D	51.2%203,336	48.5%192,847	397,299
2022	7	D	52.2%143,357	47.6%130,586	274,590
2020	7	D	50.8%230,893	49.0%222,623	454,339
2018	7	D	50.3%176,079	48.4%169,295	349,803
2016	7	R	42.2%160,159	57.5%218,057	379,163
2014	7	R	36.9%89,914	60.8%148,026	243,351
2012	7	R	41.4%158,012	58.4%222,983	381,909
2010	7	R	34.1%79,616	59.2%138,209	233,402
2008	7	R	37.1%138,123	62.7%233,531	372,337
2006	7	R	34.4%88,206	63.8%163,706	256,397
2004	7	R	0.0%0	75.5%230,765	305,658
2002	7	R	30.5%49,854	69.4%113,658	163,665
2000	7	R	33.0%94,935	66.9%192,652	287,891
1998	7	R	0.0%0	78.7%77,044	97,889
1996	7	R	20.3%51,206	75.1%189,644	252,505
1994	7	R	0.0%0	84.0%176,941	210,632
1992	7	R	0.0%0	82.9%211,618	255,375
1990	7	R	41.7%58,684	58.1%81,688	140,620
1988	7	R	0.0%0	99.6%136,988	137,476
1986	7	R	0.0%0	98.3%58,927	59,976
1984	7	R	40.2%77,624	56.5%109,110	193,156
1982	7	R	36.3%46,514	59.9%76,752	128,224
1980	7	R	0.0%0	99.7%139,957	140,396
1978	7	R	35.7%46,950	64.3%84,517	131,476
1976	7	R	0.0%0	81.6%115,508	141,482

U.S. Senate

Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year	Won	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	D	54.4%2,417,115	45.4%2,019,911	4,445,535
2020	D	56.0%2,466,500	44.0%1,934,199	4,400,699
2018	D	57.1%1,910,370	41.1%1,374,313	3,346,248
2014	D	49.2%1,073,667	48.4%1,055,940	2,182,709
2012	D	53.0%2,010,067	47.0%1,785,542	3,795,609
2008	D	65.1%2,369,327	33.8%1,228,830	3,640,116
2006	D	49.6%1,175,606	49.3%1,166,277	2,367,985
2002	R	0.0%0	83.0%1,229,894	1,481,051
2000	R	47.7%1,296,093	52.3%1,420,460	2,716,553
1996	R	47.5%1,115,982	52.5%1,235,744	2,351,726
1994	D	45.6%938,376	42.9%882,213	2,056,026
1990	R	0.0%0	81.7%876,782	1,073,537
1988	D	71.3%1,474,086	28.7%593,652	2,067,738
1984	R	29.9%601,142	70.0%1,406,194	2,007,487
1982	R	48.8%690,839	51.2%724,571	1,415,410
1978	R	49.8%608,511	50.2%613,232	1,221,743
1976	O	38.3%596,009	0.0%0	1,557,346

Demographics

Demographic profile

Demographic Profile

Key indicators compared across containing geographies

Demographic Profile. Key indicators compared across containing geographies. ACS values are survey estimates and may include margins of error. Religion data may be available only at county or larger geographies. Sub-county values are labeled when inherited, modeled, or contextual.
Indicator	VA-7Congressional district	VirginiaState	United StatesNation
Race & Ethnicity
White	53.5%	60.2%	61.0%
Black	20.4%	18.6%	12.2%
Asian	5.3%	6.9%	6.0%
Two or more races	11.3%	9.5%	12.6%
Other race	9.6%	4.8%	8.2%
Hispanic or Latino	17.4%	11.0%	19.3%
Income & Age
Median household income	$113,817	$93,170	$84,427
Poverty rate	7.3%	10.0%	12.5%
Median age	37	39.3	39.1
Age 18–24	8.8%	9.2%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	13.9%	16.7%	17.2%
Education & Language
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	38.4%	42.3%	35.6%
Speaks a non-English language at home	20.1%	17.5%	22.3%
Spanish	11.9%	7.9%	13.6%
Other Indo-European	2.5%	2.6%	2.0%
Other languages	1.6%	1.1%	0.8%
Ancestry
Largest ancestry	English 11.0%	English 12.0%	German 12.5%
2nd-largest ancestry	German 10.7%	German 10.1%	Mexican 11.3%
3rd-largest ancestry	Irish 9.8%	Irish 9.1%	English 9.5%
Religion
Catholic	8.9%County context	10.2%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	20.0%County context	19.9%	16.5%
Unaffiliated or unclaimed	60.3%County context	54.3%	51.5%
Mainline Protestant	5.2%County context	8.4%	5.2%

ACS values are survey estimates and may include margins of error.

Religion data may be available only at county or larger geographies. Sub-county values are labeled when inherited, modeled, or contextual.

2024 ACS

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the origins and ancestries reported within it.

Reported ancestry · ACS B04006

English

11.0%

German

10.7%

Irish

9.8%

American

6.0%

Italian

4.1%

Polish

1.8%

Scottish

1.8%

French

1.4%

Reported ancestry · ACS B04006

African American identity is recorded by the ACS race question; the ancestry item enumerates specific African and Caribbean ancestries only.

African

0.9%

Ghanaian

0.7%

Ethiopian

0.4%

Jamaican

0.3%

Nigerian

0.2%

Specific origin · ACS B03001

Salvadoran

4.4%

Mexican

3.4%

Puerto Rican

1.7%

Guatemalan

1.2%

Honduran

0.8%

Peruvian

0.8%

Bolivian

0.4%

Colombian

0.3%

The ACS does not publish subgroup detail for people reporting two or more races.

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and other single-race responses combined.

Detailed group · ACS B02015

Asian Indian

0.7%

Filipino

0.7%

Korean

0.6%

Pakistani

0.5%

Afghan

0.5%

Chinese

0.3%

Vietnamese

0.3%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Race shares: B02001 · B03003. Subgroup detail: B03001 (Hispanic or Latino specific origin), B02015 (Asian groups), B02020 · B02016 (American Indian/Alaska Native tribes and Pacific Islander groups), B04006 (reported ancestry). Hispanic/Latino is an ethnicity that overlaps the race categories, so group shares can total more than 100%. All subgroup rows are shares of total population; ancestry is self-reported and multiple-response, so rows do not sum to the parent group's share.

2024 ACS

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 37.0 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.4%

85+

0.7%

1.9%

75–84

2.4%

4.0%

65–74

4.5%

6.3%

55–64

6.3%

6.6%

45–54

6.5%

7.0%

35–44

7.1%

6.4%

25–34

6.2%

4.6%

18–24

4.2%

9.7%

5–17

9.1%

3.2%

3.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

2024 ACS

Median household income

Inflation-adjusted dollars

$113,817

Virginia 7th Congressional District$113,817

Virginia$93,170

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

2024 ACS

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

7.3%

Child poverty is below the national average.

Children under 189.8%

Working age (18–64)6.4%

Seniors (65+)6.9%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

2024 ACS

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

79.9%

speak English only

Spanish11.9%

Other Indo-European2.5%

Other languages1.6%

Arabic0.7%

French (incl. Cajun & Haitian)0.6%

Other Asian & Pacific Island0.6%

Korean0.5%

Tagalog (incl. Filipino)0.5%

German or other West Germanic0.3%

Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)0.3%

Russian, Polish, or other Slavic0.3%

Vietnamese0.3%

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

2020 religion census

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Evangelical Protestant

20.0%

Catholic

8.9%

Mainline Protestant

5.2%

Muslim

2.0%

Latter-day Saints

1.5%

Black Protestant

0.8%

Other Christian

0.7%

Orthodox Christian

0.2%

Other faiths

0.1%

Buddhist

0.1%

Hindu

0.1%

Unaffiliated or not counted60.3%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. The unaffiliated-or-not-counted share is everyone not claimed as an adherent by any reporting body — uncounted congregations as well as the religiously unaffiliated.

Virginia's 7th swung to within 0.3 points in 2024, reflecting a suburban electorate that has shifted repeatedly over the past decade as the Richmond-area exurbs have grown and diversified.

Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 7.1 points in 2020. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 2.8 points.

A population of 783,696, a 54% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $113,817 describe the district.

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Frequently asked questions

How did Virginia 7th Congressional District vote in 2024?

In 2024, Virginia 7th Congressional District voted Democratic by 2.8 points (D+2.8), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 403,973 votes cast, 203,206 went Democratic and 191,700 went Republican.

How many people live in Virginia 7th Congressional District?

Virginia 7th Congressional District has a population of 783,696 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.

What is the median household income in Virginia 7th Congressional District?

Median household income in Virginia 7th Congressional District is $113,817 — above the national median of $80,734. The Virginia state median is $93,170.

What is the political history of Virginia 7th Congressional District?

Akashic tracks 5 presidential elections in Virginia 7th Congressional District from 2008 to 2024. Of those, 5 went Democratic and 0 went Republican.

Virginia 7th Congressional District delivered D+2.8 in 2024.

U.S. House

U.S. Senate

Demographics

Demographic Profile

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