Bluefield, WV-VA · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
66.2%
19,429 votes · D+32.4
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 62.6%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
80.7%
35,083 votes · R+62.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 79.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Jimmy Carter1976
22,326votes
57.3% of the vote · D+15.3
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 21,705 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
35,968votes
79.5% of the vote · R+60.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 35,083 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
John W. Davis1924
+28.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+3.1 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +20.1 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+64.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+60.1 · U.S. D+4.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +61.9 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Bluefield, WV-VA · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Bluefield, WV-VA, by party and cycle.
Clinton1Sanders17,490 votes · 2 of 2 countiesprimary
Biden25,716 votes · 2 of 2 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+19.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+62.5
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 43 points more Republican than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Bluefield, WV-VA
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2026 (partial)
38,438
9,345
16,880
10,653
1,560
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+397 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −4,540 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Bluefield, WV-VA in Bluefield, WV-VA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+127
2012
−229
2013
−379
2014
−481
2015
−870
2016
−1,020
2017
−1,291
2018
−436
2019
−442
2021
+116
2022
+186
2023
−164
2024
−54
2025
+397
Straddling the West Virginia–Virginia border in the heart of Appalachian coal country, the Bluefield metro has moved toward lopsided Republican margins over the past two decades as energy-sector employment declined and cultural realignment accelerated.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 32.4 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 62.5 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 62.5 points.
A population of 98,187, a 90% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $50,830 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Tullahoma-Manchester, TN and Newport, TN.
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In 2024, Bluefield, WV-VA, Virginia voted Republican by 62.5 points (R+62.5), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 43,490 votes cast, 7,881 went Democratic and 35,083 went Republican.
When did Bluefield, WV-VA, Virginia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Bluefield, WV-VA, Virginia voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Bluefield, WV-VA, Virginia?
Bluefield, WV-VA, Virginia has a population of 98,187 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Bluefield, WV-VA, Virginia?
Median household income in Bluefield, WV-VA, Virginia is $50,830 — below the national median of $80,734. The Virginia state median is $93,170.
What is the political history of Bluefield, WV-VA, Virginia?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Bluefield, WV-VA, Virginia from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 15 went Democratic and 19 went Republican.
