Winchester, VA-WV · 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
Woodrow Wilson1916
73.9%
3,843 votes · D+48.8
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · 72.1%
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
72.9%
18,662 votes · R+46.2
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 72.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
26,628votes
35.7% of the vote · R+27.1
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 25,756 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
46,833votes
62.7% of the vote · R+27.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 43,812 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
+67.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+41.9 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +64.4 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+33.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+31.6 · U.S. D+2.1
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +30.0 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.
Winchester, VA-WV · 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 Winchester, VA-WV, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Obama2Clinton111,064 votes · 3 of 3 countiesprimary
Clinton2Sanders18,080 votes · 3 of 3 countiesprimary
Biden313,683 votes · 3 of 3 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+37.7
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+27.1
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 11 points more Democratic than the rolls.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Winchester, VA-WV
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2026 (partial)
15,117
2,536
8,239
3,869
473
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+2,079 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +15,001 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Winchester, VA-WV in Winchester, VA-WV: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+716
2012
+473
2013
+873
2014
+634
2015
+110
2016
+734
2017
+1,687
2018
+963
2019
+781
2021
+2,539
2022
+725
2023
+994
2024
+1,693
2025
+2,079
Winchester spans the Virginia–West Virginia line along the lower Shenandoah Valley, drawing commuters from the D.C. corridor whose arrival has gradually narrowed what were once double-digit Republican margins in federal races.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 55.4 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 46.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 1.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 27.1 points.
A population of 146,386, a 77% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,664 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA and Gettysburg, PA.
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In 2024, Winchester, VA-WV, Virginia voted Republican by 27.1 points (R+27.1), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 74,657 votes cast, 26,628 went Democratic and 46,833 went Republican.
When did Winchester, VA-WV, Virginia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Winchester, VA-WV, Virginia voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Winchester, VA-WV, Virginia?
Winchester, VA-WV, Virginia has a population of 146,386 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Winchester, VA-WV, Virginia?
Median household income in Winchester, VA-WV, Virginia is $85,664 — above the national median of $80,734. The Virginia state median is $93,170.
What is the political history of Winchester, VA-WV, Virginia?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Winchester, VA-WV, Virginia from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 16 went Democratic and 18 went Republican.
