Richmond-Petersburg · 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 Richmond-Petersburg, 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 Richmond-Petersburg
Year
Total registered
2016
1,021,455
2018
1,039,783
2020
1,096,388
2022
1,128,063
2024
1,175,404
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+10,315 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +90,318 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Richmond-Petersburg in Richmond-Petersburg: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+43
2012
+4,985
2013
+4,111
2014
+4,744
2015
+4,249
2016
+3,949
2017
+4,723
2018
+7,095
2019
+6,436
2021
+10,965
2022
+9,343
2023
+8,911
2024
+10,449
2025
+10,315
Richmond-Petersburg straddles a persistent partisan fault line, blending the Democratic-leaning city core with battleground exurbs that have shifted measurably toward competitive margins in recent statewide cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 68.9 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 32.0 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 1.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.3 points.
A population of 1,576,081, a 56% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $86,503 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville) and Charleston, SC.
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How did Richmond-Petersburg, Virginia vote in 2024?
In 2024, Richmond-Petersburg, Virginia voted Democratic by 9.3 points (D+9.3), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 853,550 votes cast, 459,176 went Democratic and 379,827 went Republican.
When did Richmond-Petersburg, Virginia last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Richmond-Petersburg, Virginia voted Republican was 2004.
How many people live in Richmond-Petersburg, Virginia?
Richmond-Petersburg, Virginia has a population of 1,576,081 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Richmond-Petersburg, Virginia?
Median household income in Richmond-Petersburg, Virginia is $86,503 — above the national median of $80,734. The Virginia state median is $93,170.
What is the political history of Richmond-Petersburg, Virginia?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Richmond-Petersburg, Virginia from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 21 went Democratic and 13 went Republican.
