County voting history
Powhatan County
VA · Presidential results, 2000–2024
- Covered elections
- 7
- County identifier
- 51145
- Coverage status
- Complete for covered years
Seven-election signal
County Fingerprint
Each column places the county margin against a centered zero line. The muted marker behind it shows the statewide margin; dot size reflects known candidate votes.
2000R +43.2 pp
2004R +48.4 pp
2008R +40.8 pp
2012R +46.5 pp
2016R +49.1 pp
2020R +45.1 pp
2024R +44.5 pp
Exact covered results
Seven-election history and state comparison
The county and state margins use only exact Democratic and Republican candidate totals. All-candidate totals become unavailable when selected source rows are suppressed.
| Data status | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | R +43.2 pp | R +8.3 pp | 9,711 | Not comparable | Margin knownTotal known |
| 2004 | R +48.4 pp | R +8.3 pp | 12,163 | R shift 5.3 pp | Margin knownTotal known |
| 2008 | R +40.8 pp | D +6.4 pp | 14,456 | D shift 7.6 pp | Margin knownTotal known |
| 2012 | R +46.5 pp | D +3.9 pp | 15,525 | R shift 5.7 pp | Margin knownTotal known |
| 2016 | R +49.1 pp | D +5.7 pp | 16,900 | R shift 2.6 pp | Margin knownTotal known |
| 2020 | R +45.1 pp | D +10.3 pp | 19,733 | D shift 4.0 pp | Margin knownTotal known |
| 2024 | R +44.5 pp | D +5.9 pp | 20,841 | D shift 0.6 pp | Margin knownTotal known |
Identity and caveats
- Canonical geography
- us-county:51145
- Boundary note
- Year-specific source identities are linked only through approved exact or code-successor crosswalks.
- Coverage
- County popular-vote coverage begins in 2000. No earlier county results are implied.
Source
MIT Election Data and Science Lab County Presidential Returns
MIT Election Data and Science Lab / Harvard Dataverse · Harvard Dataverse v20.0 2026-02-25
Data version labs-elections:6dbf3e52c41a13254056a211