By Heather Michon
Correspondent
Donald Trump may have lost Virginia but carried Fluvanna County by around five percentage points in Tuesday’s general election.
According to the Virginia Department of Elections, Trump won 8,638 votes to Democrat Kamala Harris’s 7,592 votes. Another 229 votes went to third-party candidates.
Trump’s share of Fluvanna’s vote has remained remarkably consistent over the past eight years: 52.48 percent in 2024, 51.48 percent in 2020, and 52.01 percent in 2016.
The only major difference this year was turnout. The Department of Elections shows that 75 percent of Fluvanna voters cast a ballot this year—a steep drop from the 84 percent turnout seen in 2020. It was also lower than 2016, which saw an 80 percent turnout.
Kaine, Mcguire win
Tim Kaine will return to the US Senate for a third six-year term, comfortably beating Republican challenger Hung Cao by more than nine points statewide.
Cao did carry Fluvanna County by 51.8 percent to Kaine’s 48 percent.
In the US House, John McGuire defeated Democratic challenger Gloria Tinsley Witt. Across the Fifth District, McGuire won by 57 percent to Witt’s 42 percent. His margin of victory was slightly narrower in Fluvanna, where he won 54 percent of the vote.
McGuire’s win means that his seat in the state senate will go to a special election. Louisa Supervisor Duane Adams, former State Senator Amanda Chase, and Powhatan realtor Jane Gammon have already announced they will run for their party’s nomination for the seat.
