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1876–2024
Maury County, Tennessee
Maury County·Tennessee

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

A mid-Tennessee county where a booming population hasn't shifted its lopsided margins

18762024·38 elections
Maury County, Tennessee · Flickr user jdj150 · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+45
in 2024
Archetype
Old Confederacy
since the recent cycles
Population
107,791
2024 ACS
Most similar
Coffee County
TN · similarity 1.00
22 precincts · 52,090 votes cast
Trump · R+45
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−44.6%
14,14537,37652,090
2020R
−36.5%
14,41831,46446,657
2016R
−38.9%
10,03823,79935,369
2012R
−26.9%
11,82520,70833,006
2008R
−21.4%
13,05820,28833,767
2004R
−17.1%
12,37917,50530,043
2000R
−3.4%
11,12711,93023,400
1996D
+7.9%
10,3678,73720,574
1992D
+12.5%
9,9977,44020,459
1988R
−14.3%
6,2808,39714,788
1984R
−12.8%
6,9509,00816,033
1980D
+8.8%
7,9576,63715,030
1976D
+24.0%
8,7475,32714,265
1972R
−36.9%
3,2627,37111,121
1968D
+2.4%
3,4013,04814,597
1964D
+25.2%
7,7164,60512,321
1960D
+22.8%
6,6154,13310,879
1956D
+39.2%
6,6622,8539,706
1952D
+34.5%
7,3773,58210,995
1948D
+35.7%
2,9068955,635
1944D
+72.9%
4,8147475,579
1940D
+75.1%
4,5296345,186
1936D
+76.6%
3,8094974,325
1932D
+72.3%
3,3925353,952
1928D
+45.7%
3,6521,3625,014
1924D
+54.7%
3,0008443,944
1920D
+31.9%
2,6931,3794,113
1916D
+49.5%
2,1697202,926
1912D
+50.4%
2,3096153,361
1908D
+57.1%
2,3246202,983
1904D
+36.5%
2,1429733,204
1900D
+14.2%
3,3252,4915,893
1896D
+22.3%
4,0212,5376,650
1892D
+36.8%
3,1911,3574,980
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%
Polish
4.1%
African American
8.3%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
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
Other Christian
17.2%
Baptist
9.0%
Methodist
4.5%
Pentecostal & Holiness
4.0%
Catholic & Orthodox
3.7%
Mainline Protestant
3.1%
Non-Christian
1.8%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 56.7% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Maury County has absorbed rapid residential growth from the Nashville metro—its population jumped roughly 30% in a decade—yet its presidential margins have widened rather than narrowed, holding among the most one-sided in Middle Tennessee.

The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in Maury County, by a three points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at forty-five points in 2024. The 2024 margin was forty-five points.

The political shift has tracked, in Maury County, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 79% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $76,130, and a 10% poverty rate describe the demographic context. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Coffee County and Putnam County.