Gloucester County, Virginia

2024 results by precinct

11 precincts · 23,228 votes cast

Trump · R+38

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−38.2%	7,034	15,918	23,228
2020	R	−35.5%	6,964	14,875	22,282
2016	R	−39.2%	5,404	13,096	19,619
2012	R	−27.9%	6,764	12,137	19,283
2008	R	−26.9%	6,916	12,089	19,222
2004	R	−36.6%	5,105	11,084	16,333
2000	R	−30.4%	4,553	8,718	13,699
1996	R	−13.8%	4,710	6,447	12,593
1992	R	−18.0%	4,058	6,461	13,345
1988	R	−38.2%	3,372	7,646	11,181
1984	R	−42.7%	2,830	7,109	10,025
1980	R	−14.2%	3,138	4,261	7,897
1976	D	+2.0%	3,156	3,025	6,404
1972	R	−46.4%	1,292	3,642	5,064
1968	R	−9.4%	1,210	1,619	4,364
1964	D	+8.9%	1,949	1,631	3,583
1960	R	−0.5%	1,297	1,310	2,620
1956	R	−26.2%	723	1,319	2,276
1952	R	−5.5%	961	1,073	2,046
1948	D	+22.4%	719	434	1,274
1944	D	+38.8%	934	410	1,349
1940	D	+59.0%	937	241	1,180
1936	D	+56.4%	1,012	281	1,297
1932	D	+52.5%	916	280	1,211
1928	R	−2.2%	587	614	1,201
1924	D	+69.5%	616	109	730
1920	D	+40.7%	677	283	969
1916	D	+60.6%	582	142	726
1912	D	+68.1%	510	74	640
1908	D	+66.7%	477	94	574
1904	D	+46.0%	474	173	655
1900	D	+15.5%	484	354	839
1896	D	+19.5%	819	549	1,385
1892	R	−15.5%	907	1,276	2,380
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%

African American

6.5%

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.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 44.8 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.1%

85+

1.4%

2.5%

75–84

3.2%

6.2%

65–74

6.5%

7.9%

55–64

8.4%

6.0%

45–54

6.6%

6.4%

35–44

6.0%

5.8%

25–34

5.5%

3.4%

18–24

3.0%

7.9%

5–17

7.1%

2.6%

2.3%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$84,306

Gloucester County ranks in the top 25% of US counties.

Gloucester County$84,306

Virginia$93,170

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

5.2%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

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

13.5%

Methodist

7.6%

Other Christian

5.3%

Catholic & Orthodox

5.0%

Mainline Protestant

1.9%

Pentecostal & Holiness

1.4%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 65.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Gloucester sits on a peninsula between the York and Piankatank rivers, with an economy rooted in commercial fishing and commuter ties to Hampton Roads. Its presidential margins have exceeded 35 points Republican in recent cycles, reflecting the broader rural Tidewater pattern.

The shift began with civil rights. 1980 marked the realignment in Gloucester County, by a fourteen points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at forty-six points in 1972. The 2024 margin was thirty-eight points.

The political shift has tracked, in Gloucester County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 83% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $84,306, and a 5% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Mathews County and Middlesex County.

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