How Fairfax City Precincts Voted In 2020 Democratic Primary

FAIRFAX CITY, VA — Former Vice President Joe Biden won the Super Tuesday Democratic primary election by a wide margin in Fairfax City, but his performance in the city was not as strong as how he did in surrounding Fairfax County or Virginia as a whole.

Biden received 2,670 votes, or 45.1 percent of the vote total in Fairfax City, followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) with 1,561 votes, or 26.4 percent, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) with 782 votes, or 13.2 percent. In surrounding Fairfax County, Biden performed more strongly, winning 49.8 percent of the vote, with Sanders coming in second with 23.3 percent and Warren with 12.1 percent.

In Virginia, Biden received 705,800 votes, or 53.3 percent, with Sanders coming in second with 306,023 votes, or 23.1 percent, and Warren finishing third with 142,470 votes, or 10.8 percent.

Voters turned out in record numbers in Virginia on Super Tuesday, including in Fairfax City. With votes totaling more than 1.3 million, this year's Democratic primary in Virginia far exceeded the 782,900 votes cast in the 2016 primary when former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton beat Sanders in a landslide. The turnout also surpassed the previous record of 986,000 votes cast in the 2008 Democratic primary.

In Fairfax City, 4,639 votes were cast in Tuesday's primary, 91 percent higher than the turnout of 3,102 in 2016 and 70 percent higher than the 3,498 votes cast in the city in the 2008 Democratic primary.

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Biden won each of Fairfax City's six voting precincts. The former vice president won the largest percentage of votes — 49.9 percent — in Precinct 4, where residents vote at the Fairfax City Hall Annex. Sanders came in second at the precinct with 24.5 percent of the vote.

Biden won his smallest percentage of votes — 41.6 percent — in Precinct 1 where residents vote at the Fairfax Presbyterian Church on Main Street. Sanders performed the strongest in Precinct 1, where he received 34.2 percent of the vote.