Harrisonburg, 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 Harrisonburg, 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 Harrisonburg, VA
Year
Total registered
2016
78,186
2018
76,857
2020
80,787
2022
82,767
2024
85,616
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+4 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +956 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Harrisonburg, VA in Harrisonburg, VA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+547
2012
+836
2013
−350
2014
+374
2015
−203
2016
+714
2017
+53
2018
−40
2019
−426
2021
+25
2022
−373
2023
+223
2024
−428
2025
+4
Home to James Madison University, Harrisonburg's electorate skews younger than surrounding Shenandoah Valley counties, and shifting student registration rates have repeatedly altered competitive margins in statewide races.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 25.8 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 55.9 points in 1972. The 2024 margin was 20.6 points.
A population of 136,992, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $73,776 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Logan, UT-ID and Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT.
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In 2024, Harrisonburg, VA, Virginia voted Republican by 20.6 points (R+20.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 66,185 votes cast, 25,676 went Democratic and 39,299 went Republican.
When did Harrisonburg, VA, Virginia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Harrisonburg, VA, Virginia voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Harrisonburg, VA, Virginia?
Harrisonburg, VA, Virginia has a population of 136,992 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Harrisonburg, VA, Virginia?
Median household income in Harrisonburg, VA, Virginia is $73,776 — below the national median of $80,734. The Virginia state median is $93,170.
What is the political history of Harrisonburg, VA, Virginia?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Harrisonburg, VA, Virginia from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 11 went Democratic and 23 went Republican.
