Lunenburg County, Virginia

2024 results by precinct

11 precincts · 5,885 votes cast

Trump · R+23

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−22.8%	2,253	3,594	5,885
2020	R	−18.6%	2,418	3,537	6,000
2016	R	−17.5%	2,227	3,204	5,586
2012	R	−5.0%	2,684	2,969	5,734
2008	R	−3.5%	2,703	2,900	5,650
2004	R	−9.5%	2,362	2,858	5,245
2000	R	−10.5%	2,026	2,510	4,591
1996	R	−1.5%	1,995	2,063	4,460
1992	R	−3.0%	2,082	2,227	4,912
1988	R	−14.7%	1,870	2,530	4,496
1984	R	−21.2%	1,754	2,713	4,526
1980	R	−2.1%	1,958	2,045	4,136
1976	R	−2.1%	1,739	1,816	3,652
1972	R	−40.4%	3,941	9,417	13,557
1968	R	−0.0%	1,180	1,181	4,012
1964	D	+11.7%	1,731	1,369	3,103
1960	D	+25.8%	1,451	838	2,379
1956	D	+22.7%	1,111	580	2,339
1952	D	+29.1%	1,528	837	2,373
1948	D	+50.9%	1,126	251	1,718
1944	D	+73.3%	1,205	184	1,393
1940	D	+78.7%	1,213	144	1,359
1936	D	+88.6%	1,291	77	1,370
1932	D	+84.1%	1,141	92	1,247
1928	D	+58.5%	1,199	314	1,513
1924	D	+53.7%	686	130	1,036
1920	D	+58.9%	818	208	1,036
1916	D	+75.1%	814	110	937
1912	D	+70.4%	508	66	628
1908	D	+59.3%	414	105	521
1904	D	+62.3%	433	96	541
1900	D	+29.8%	634	343	978
1896	D	+37.3%	1,045	475	1,530
1892	D	+35.5%	819	363	1,285
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

1.5%

African American

26.0%

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: 44.6 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.8%

85+

1.6%

2.7%

75–84

3.7%

7.1%

65–74

7.4%

7.3%

55–64

6.9%

6.8%

45–54

5.2%

7.8%

35–44

4.9%

6.2%

25–34

4.9%

4.3%

18–24

3.0%

8.3%

5–17

7.1%

2.2%

2.0%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$54,842

Lunenburg County ranks in the bottom 25% of US counties.

Lunenburg County$54,842

Virginia$93,170

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

15.9%

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

11.1%

Methodist

8.8%

Other Christian

7.8%

Mainline Protestant

4.4%

Pentecostal & Holiness

1.1%

Non-Christian

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 66.7% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Lunenburg sits in Virginia's Southside tobacco belt, where a shrinking but stable population has shifted steadily toward Republican presidential candidates over the past two decades, reaching a 22.8-point margin in 2024.

The shift began with civil rights. 1968 marked the realignment in Lunenburg County, by a zero points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at forty points in 1972. The 2024 margin was twenty-three points.

The political shift has tracked, in Lunenburg County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 58% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $54,842, and a 16% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Huron County and Newaygo County.

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