- Lead
- 72,375
- Total
- 313,810
- vs nation
- R+21.6
Tennessee 5th Congressional District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 40,836
- Total
- 322,311
- vs nation
- R+17.1
- Lead
- 29,105
- Total
- 272,193
- vs nation
- R+12.8
- Lead
- 5,244
- Total
- 271,662
- vs nation
- R+5.8
- Lead
- 13,684
- Total
- 286,395
- vs nation
- R+2.5
- Lead
- 18,696
- Total
- 261,740
- vs nation
- D+9.6
- Lead
- 39,776
- Total
- 221,272
- vs nation
- D+17.5
- Lead
- 54,553
- Total
- 202,566
- vs nation
- D+18.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+23.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 767,9762024 5-year
- Population density
- 373 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2,059 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $93,9042024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 61.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 27.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+80.9 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+23.1 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Congressional District 4, TN · twin score 79.5
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 5th Congressional District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
90.3%
53,585 votes · D+80.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 89.5%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
60.9%
190,997 votes · R+23.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 55.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
148,406votes
51.8% of the vote · D+4.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 139,415 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
190,997votes
60.9% of the vote · R+23.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 178,797 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
+86.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+61.0 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · +66.4 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2024
+21.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+23.1 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +17.1 pts
Current officeholders
Federal officeholders only. State and local officeholders are planned for the next data pass.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each result reflects the U.S. House district as it was drawn for that election; redistricting has redrawn these lines over time, so they can differ from the current 120th-Congress district shown on the map above.
Tennessee 5th Congressional District sits in the Border South and Appalachia. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 80.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 23.1 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 10.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.1 points.
A population of 767,976, a 61% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $93,904 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Congressional District 4 and Congressional District 6.
The congressional districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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Tennessee 5th Congressional District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/cd/4705/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.