Danville, 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 Danville, VA, by party and cycle.
○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
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Danville, VA
Year
Total registered
2016
71,954
2018
70,966
2020
73,203
2022
73,930
2024
75,413
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+235 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −1,697 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Danville, VA in Danville, VA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−357
2012
−36
2013
−148
2014
−303
2015
−386
2016
−287
2017
−597
2018
−318
2019
−679
2021
+171
2022
+417
2023
+358
2024
+233
2025
+235
Danville anchors the southern Virginia Piedmont, where decades of textile and tobacco decline have redrawn voter coalitions. The metro's working-class majority and persistent poverty rate make it a reliable signal for statewide shifts among non-college white and Black voters.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 72.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 62.5 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 21.2 points.
A population of 102,070, a 59% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $50,089 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Martinsville, VA and Eufaula, AL-GA.
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In 2024, Danville, VA, Virginia voted Republican by 21.2 points (R+21.2), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 51,868 votes cast, 20,214 went Democratic and 31,204 went Republican.
When did Danville, VA, Virginia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Danville, VA, Virginia voted Democratic was 1948.
How many people live in Danville, VA, Virginia?
Danville, VA, Virginia has a population of 102,070 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Danville, VA, Virginia?
Median household income in Danville, VA, Virginia is $50,089 — below the national median of $80,734. The Virginia state median is $93,170.
What is the political history of Danville, VA, Virginia?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Danville, VA, Virginia from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 14 went Democratic and 19 went Republican.
