Charlottesville · 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 Charlottesville, 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 Charlottesville
Year
Total registered
2016
177,111
2018
177,803
2020
187,578
2022
192,797
2024
203,116
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+1,062 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +13,069 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Charlottesville in Charlottesville: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+517
2012
+773
2013
+164
2014
+983
2015
+1,246
2016
+878
2017
+1,677
2018
+813
2019
+638
2021
+1,997
2022
+602
2023
+797
2024
+922
2025
+1,062
Charlottesville's media market centers on a flagship research university community, producing voter composition that skews younger and more credentialed than surrounding Piedmont counties, which frequently pull aggregate results in competing directions.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 59.6 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 36.0 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 2.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 17.5 points.
A population of 261,469, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $94,675 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Juneau and Denver.
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In 2024, Charlottesville, Virginia voted Democratic by 17.5 points (D+17.5), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 150,340 votes cast, 86,875 went Democratic and 60,585 went Republican.
When did Charlottesville, Virginia last vote Republican?
The most recent presidential election in which Charlottesville, Virginia voted Republican was 2004.
How many people live in Charlottesville, Virginia?
Charlottesville, Virginia has a population of 261,469 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Charlottesville, Virginia?
Median household income in Charlottesville, Virginia is $94,675 — above the national median of $80,734. The Virginia state median is $93,170.
What is the political history of Charlottesville, Virginia?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 21 went Democratic and 13 went Republican.
