akashic
1876–2024
Crockett County, Tennessee
Crockett County·Tennessee

Crockett County voted Democratic for a century. The shift began with civil rights.

One of West Tennessee's most Republican-leaning rural counties

18762024·38 elections
Crockett County, Tennessee · Brian Stansberry · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+59
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
13,944
2024 ACS
Most similar
Morgan County
TN · similarity 1.00
12 precincts · 5,921 votes cast
Trump · R+59
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−58.7%
1,1964,6745,921
2020R
−53.8%
1,3824,6736,114
2016R
−49.6%
1,3033,9825,397
2012R
−38.5%
1,6693,7835,498
2008R
−33.6%
1,9673,9946,037
2004R
−13.7%
2,4593,2425,722
2000D
+0.5%
2,7052,6765,440
1996D
+8.8%
2,2561,8724,342
1992D
+8.9%
2,6572,1805,357
1988R
−11.9%
1,7422,2143,970
1984R
−12.2%
1,9372,4794,429
1980D
+6.6%
2,4222,1174,588
1976D
+27.0%
2,9631,6944,697
1972R
−54.4%
7352,6423,504
1968R
−5.1%
7039324,500
1964R
−1.5%
1,8171,8733,690
1960R
−1.0%
1,4381,4673,013
1956D
+30.2%
1,9641,0263,107
1952D
+23.1%
2,1551,3433,509
1948D
+30.8%
1,4156012,640
1944D
+28.9%
1,4217822,212
1940D
+47.1%
2,0487332,790
1936D
+57.0%
1,9215252,450
1932D
+57.6%
1,9345132,467
1928D
+2.7%
7497101,459
1924D
+32.7%
1,1685871,775
1920R
−1.6%
2,2522,3264,578
1916D
+16.9%
1,6081,1442,752
1912D
+16.6%
1,2978522,685
1908D
+0.9%
1,2261,2052,431
1904D
+2.9%
1,1671,1022,279
1900D
+15.0%
1,4281,0502,522
1896D
+17.4%
1,6651,1662,865
1892D
+18.4%
1,2718302,392
1888
No data
1884
No data
1880
No data
1876
No data
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
African American
8.7%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
0.0%
speak English only
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Baptist
37.5%
Methodist
10.8%
Other Christian
9.1%
Catholic & Orthodox
4.6%
Mainline Protestant
3.0%
Pentecostal & Holiness
2.9%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 32.1% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Crockett County's 2024 presidential margin of R+58.7 reflects a broader rightward shift across West Tennessee's agricultural flatlands, where small-town demographics and a shrinking population have reinforced consistently lopsided statewide results.

The shift began with civil rights. 2004 marked the realignment in Crockett County, by a fourteen points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at fifty-nine points in 2024. The 2024 margin was fifty-nine points.

The political shift has tracked, in Crockett County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 72% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $62,165, and a 15% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Morgan County and Weakley County.