Chattanooga, TN-GA · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
70.9%
24,260 votes · D+42.1
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 66.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
73.0%
80,324 votes · R+49.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 64.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
94,238votes
34.7% of the vote · R+29.3
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 93,959 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
173,921votes
64.0% of the vote · R+29.3
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 162,281 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
John W. Davis1924
+29.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+3.8 · U.S. R+25.2
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · +23.3 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+32.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+30.7 · U.S. D+2.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +30.6 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Some U.S. House rows cover a contest held in only part of this Place — the votes are real, but the total is not place-wide because the rest of the Place had no such race that year.
Chattanooga, TN-GA · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Chattanooga, TN-GA, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton5Obama153,858 votes · 6 of 6 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Clinton630,936 votes · 6 of 6 countiesprimary
Biden644,531 votes · 6 of 6 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Chattanooga, TN-GA
Year
Total registered
2016
373,128
2018
381,417
2020
389,161
2022
401,483
2024
424,790
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+4,010 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +51,179 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Chattanooga, TN-GA in Chattanooga, TN-GA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+2,742
2012
+2,927
2013
+2,642
2014
+898
2015
+1,921
2016
+3,522
2017
+3,462
2018
+3,944
2019
+3,595
2021
+4,069
2022
+7,079
2023
+5,720
2024
+4,648
2025
+4,010
Chattanooga's metro spans two states and has trended increasingly Republican at the federal level over the past two decades, even as in-migration and downtown revitalization have introduced a younger, more diverse electorate into Hamilton County's core.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 42.1 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 49.5 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 29.3 points.
A population of 575,812, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,439 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Knoxville, TN and Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC.
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In 2024, Chattanooga, TN-GA, Georgia voted Republican by 29.3 points (R+29.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 271,585 votes cast, 94,238 went Democratic and 173,921 went Republican.
When did Chattanooga, TN-GA, Georgia last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Chattanooga, TN-GA, Georgia voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Chattanooga, TN-GA, Georgia?
Chattanooga, TN-GA, Georgia has a population of 575,812 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Chattanooga, TN-GA, Georgia?
Median household income in Chattanooga, TN-GA, Georgia is $72,439 — below the national median of $80,734. The Georgia state median is $77,353.
What is the political history of Chattanooga, TN-GA, Georgia?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Chattanooga, TN-GA, Georgia from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 23 went Republican.
