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1876–2024
Cumberland County, Virginia
Cumberland County·Virginia

Cumberland County voted Democratic for a century. The shift began with civil rights.

Small Piedmont county where GOP margins have held firm for over a decade

18762024·38 elections
Cumberland County, Virginia · Taber Andrew Bain from Richmond, VA, USA · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+22
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
9,818
2024 ACS
Most similar
Mecklenburg County
VA · similarity 0.99
5 precincts · 5,501 votes cast
Trump · R+22
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−22.1%
2,1173,3355,501
2020R
−14.9%
2,2273,0195,310
2016R
−13.5%
2,0362,6974,906
2012R
−2.3%
2,4222,5385,048
2008R
−3.5%
2,2552,4184,724
2004R
−15.9%
1,7212,3774,126
2000R
−16.2%
1,4051,9743,507
1996R
−7.6%
1,3031,5443,190
1992R
−10.6%
1,2841,6433,384
1988R
−26.8%
1,1321,9783,159
1984R
−23.7%
1,2372,0273,329
1980R
−5.3%
1,3551,5153,024
1976D
+0.7%
1,3021,2842,757
1972R
−16.9%
9691,3712,374
1968D
+5.5%
9788442,432
1964R
−11.5%
8711,0991,977
1960R
−10.5%
5596911,262
1956R
−17.8%
3315661,319
1952R
−9.5%
5746951,277
1948D
+25.2%
424219813
1944D
+35.8%
463218685
1940D
+42.8%
396157559
1936D
+55.2%
476136616
1932D
+70.2%
51184608
1928D
+35.0%
442213655
1924D
+69.2%
39861487
1920D
+56.3%
413114531
1916D
+71.9%
44673519
1912D
+87.1%
36210404
1908D
+69.2%
37468442
1904D
+72.4%
33451391
1900D
+44.3%
537205749
1896R
−3.0%
6186571,284
1892R
−18.1%
5608381,534
1888
No data
1884
No data
1880
No data
1876
No data
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
Polish
1.3%
African American
23.5%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
0.0%
speak English only
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Baptist
18.4%
Other Christian
16.1%
Pentecostal & Holiness
3.9%
Methodist
3.9%
Mainline Protestant
2.8%
Non-Christian
0.1%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 54.8% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Cumberland sits in Virginia's rural Piedmont with fewer than 10,000 residents, and its 2024 presidential margin of R+22.2 reflects a long-running pattern of lopsided results in low-density counties west of Richmond.

The shift began with civil rights. 1980 marked the realignment in Cumberland County, by a five points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at twenty-seven points in 1988. The 2024 margin was twenty-two points.

The political shift has tracked, in Cumberland County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 64% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $55,325, and a 9% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Mecklenburg County and Lee County.