Akashic

2024StatewideR+29.7

Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab

County95 areas · 2024 presidential vote

Davidson181,862102,256D+27.4290,036 Shelby201,759118,917D+25.4326,497 Haywood3,3113,286D+0.46,652 Hamilton74,43797,195R+13.0174,438 Madison16,11523,385R+18.239,964 Montgomery32,73647,795R+18.481,755 Knox87,516130,815R+19.5221,864 Rutherford56,65688,811R+21.8147,656 Hardeman3,5275,793R+24.19,399 Williamson47,69594,562R+32.4144,668 Anderson11,52524,582R+35.736,548 Lauderdale2,5715,633R+37.08,266 Washington18,13142,299R+39.561,234 Wilson23,85556,425R+40.181,254 Sumner27,87468,767R+41.897,761 Fayette6,72016,756R+42.423,696 Maury14,14537,376R+44.652,090 Cheatham5,46414,987R+45.920,741 Putnam8,99125,554R+47.434,939 Blount17,66450,699R+47.769,224 Robertson8,42826,260R+50.835,070 Dickson5,91319,002R+51.925,204 Gibson5,10016,346R+51.921,648 Tipton6,17820,303R+52.826,733 Loudon7,62525,226R+53.033,209 Franklin4,52915,016R+53.219,728 Roane6,07321,011R+54.527,412 Lake4291,493R+54.91,939 Sullivan16,62458,154R+55.075,541 Giles2,97410,394R+55.013,487 Coffee5,44019,174R+55.124,932 Henry3,28611,629R+55.315,076 Marion3,02610,788R+55.713,933 Humphreys1,7676,400R+56.18,264 Warren3,64713,192R+56.117,015 Marshall3,39012,426R+56.615,962 Bedford4,12215,772R+58.020,090 Houston7732,989R+58.23,810 Weakley2,72510,541R+58.413,394 Crockett1,1964,674R+58.75,921 Bradley9,85238,836R+58.949,246 Trousdale8563,359R+58.94,251 Cumberland6,99627,399R+58.934,642 Hamblen5,13220,154R+58.925,501 Hickman1,9688,265R+61.110,309 Sevier8,32235,207R+61.143,970 Carroll2,2339,547R+61.611,882 Dyer2,70711,603R+61.814,394 Unicoi1,5786,876R+62.08,541 Jackson1,0404,586R+62.55,676 DeKalb1,7067,599R+62.79,396 Benton1,3175,886R+62.97,260 Carter4,45420,167R+63.224,852 Stewart1,1605,389R+63.96,620 Jefferson4,50321,068R+64.225,815 Overton1,9319,042R+64.211,069 McMinn4,20719,673R+64.224,072 Lincoln2,78213,208R+64.616,128 Smith1,5957,655R+64.99,336 Obion2,22110,596R+64.912,900 Chester1,2866,206R+64.97,577 Lewis9914,852R+65.65,890 Greene5,14525,586R+65.731,095 Cannon1,1325,682R+66.16,881 Pickett4872,441R+66.12,954 Sequatchie1,2926,522R+66.37,890 Clay6143,117R+66.63,760 White2,10510,717R+66.612,931 Monroe3,60818,526R+66.822,323 Rhea2,31211,974R+66.914,444 Van Buren5242,718R+67.23,265 Meigs9685,085R+67.56,099 Henderson1,90210,083R+67.912,047 Polk1,3567,302R+68.18,727 Cocke2,41513,105R+68.315,663 McNairy1,7279,437R+68.411,267 Hawkins3,98722,066R+68.826,266 Moore5423,060R+68.93,654 Lawrence2,93916,429R+69.119,533 Decatur8194,596R+69.15,466 Grundy9485,334R+69.36,328 Johnson1,2126,829R+69.38,102 Perry5583,139R+69.53,716 Campbell2,30513,115R+69.615,528 Claiborne1,97111,463R+70.113,534 Bledsoe8915,254R+70.56,191 Hardin1,70410,293R+71.012,094 Union1,2167,384R+71.28,669 Grainger1,4329,630R+73.711,130 Macon1,2778,958R+74.310,333 Morgan1,0547,427R+74.58,560 Fentress1,1498,555R+75.89,771 Hancock3342,558R+76.52,908 Wayne7626,016R+76.96,831 Scott9428,608R+79.89,605

Tennessee voted Republican by 29.7 points in 2024 — Donald Trump took 1,966,865 votes to Kamala Harris’s 1,056,265, a margin that widened 6.5 points from the 23.2 it gave him in 2020. The last Democrat to carry the state was Bill Clinton in 1996, by 2.4 points. Of its ninety-five counties, three voted Democratic, and two carry almost the whole party vote. Davidson County, holding Nashville, ran 27.4 points Democratic, the widest margin in the state; Shelby County, holding Memphis and majority Black, ran 25.4 points and cast the most Democratic votes of any county, 201,759. The map is a Republican field with two cities cut out of it.

The third Democratic county is the smallest of stories: Haywood, in the rural west, decided by 25 votes out of 6,652, the last trace of the old Black-Belt vote that once colored West Tennessee. Everything else runs Republican, and East Tennessee runs hardest. The mountain counties around Knoxville have voted Republican since the Civil War, when the Unionist highlands resisted secession and never joined the Democratic Solid South forming around them — a loyalty that outlived the war by a century and a half. Knox County, holding Knoxville, voted Republican by 19.5 points in 2024; Scott County, on the Cumberland Plateau, was the reddest at 79.8 points.

Outside the three cities, Middle and West Tennessee have moved further right. Maury County, south of Nashville, voted Republican by 26.9 points in 2012 and 44.6 in 2024, a 17.7-point shift; Knox County moved the other way, narrowing from 29.2 points Republican in 2012 to 19.5 as Knoxville’s suburbs filled in. Underneath sits a state of 7.1 million, 71 percent White and 15.4 percent Black, and one of the most Evangelical in the country — 36.6 percent Evangelical Protestant, fifth of fifty, against 4 percent Catholic, forty-ninth. In 2026 the governorship is open, Bill Lee term-limited, with U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn the presumptive Republican nominee.

presidential margin

2004–2024 · Democratic minus Republican

2004R+14.3

2008R+15.0

2012R+20.4

2016R+26.0

2020R+23.2

2024R+29.7

full record · 1892 → 2024

presidential returns

2024 turnout 58.1% of 5,275,349 citizens 18+

Year	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	CVAP	Turnout
2024	1,056,265	1,966,865	40,812	3,063,942	5,275,349	58.1%
2020	1,143,600	1,852,475	57,686	3,053,761	5,082,240	60.1%
2016	870,695	1,522,925	114,407	2,508,027	4,876,605	51.4%
2012	960,709	1,462,330	37,865	2,460,904	4,689,693	52.5%
2008	1,089,883	1,480,779	33,138	2,603,800	4,534,358	57.4%
2004	1,035,160	1,383,336	16,453	2,434,949	4,379,023^†	55.6%

^† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.

People and households

Who lives here

Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.

Race · ethnicity · ancestry

Communities and origins

English13.3%9.5%

American11.3%5.3%

Irish9.3%9.4%

German9.1%12.5%

Scottish2.2%1.3%

Italian2.2%4.8%

Scotch-Irish1.7%—

French1.3%1.6%

African American†14.3%9.9%

African0.6%0.5%

Mexican3.8%11.3%

Puerto Rican0.6%1.8%

Guatemalan0.6%0.5%

Honduran0.5%0.3%

Cuban0.2%0.7%

Salvadoran0.2%0.7%

Venezuelan0.2%—

Asian Indian0.5%1.4%

Chinese0.2%1.3%

Filipino0.2%0.9%

Vietnamese0.2%0.6%

Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.

Age and life stage

Measure	Tennessee	United States
Median age	39.3	39.1
Age 18–24	8.9%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	17.1%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	Tennessee	United States
Median household income	$69,595	$84,427
Poverty rate	13.8%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	31.3%	35.6%

Languages at home

Measure	Tennessee	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	8.7%	22.3%
Spanish	5.3%	13.6%

Religious landscape

Measure	Tennessee	United States
Catholic	4.0%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	36.6%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	44.5%	51.5%
Mainline Protestant	6.5%	5.2%
Black Protestant	5.5%	2.2%

American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.

current representation

Current officeholders

RBill LeeGovernor

RBill HagertyU.S. Senate+0.67

RMarsha BlackburnU.S. Senate+0.63

U.S. House9 seats · D 1 · R 8

RTN-01Diana Harshbarger

RTN-02Tim Burchett

RTN-03Chuck Fleischmann

RTN-04Scott DesJarlais

RTN-05Andrew Ogles IV

RTN-06John Rose

RTN-07Matt Van Epps

RTN-08David Kustoff

DTN-09Steve Cohen

Statewide officers curated as of 2026-06-27 (Ballotpedia / state SoS). U.S. delegation current per unitedstates/congress-legislators; any vacant seat is shown with the election that fills it.

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