Sequatchie County, Tennessee

2024 results by precinct

9 precincts · 7,890 votes cast

Trump · R+66

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−66.3%	1,292	6,522	7,890
2020	R	−62.8%	1,298	5,855	7,252
2016	R	−59.5%	1,053	4,441	5,694
2012	R	−39.8%	1,489	3,541	5,153
2008	R	−34.8%	1,717	3,610	5,437
2004	R	−19.4%	1,986	2,951	4,983
2000	R	−13.4%	1,648	2,169	3,887
1996	D	+6.3%	1,598	1,391	3,298
1992	D	+10.5%	1,754	1,381	3,559
1988	R	−16.1%	1,196	1,659	2,869
1984	R	−18.0%	1,238	1,785	3,042
1980	R	−0.1%	1,509	1,512	3,052
1976	D	+23.5%	1,733	1,065	2,842
1972	R	−33.3%	629	1,298	2,010
1968	R	−5.1%	549	663	2,223
1964	D	+18.2%	1,162	804	1,966
1960	D	+13.7%	930	703	1,655
1956	D	+11.3%	859	683	1,556
1952	D	+24.4%	882	535	1,424
1948	D	+35.5%	907	420	1,373
1944	D	+34.2%	851	417	1,268
1940	D	+42.8%	1,003	401	1,408
1936	D	+40.7%	840	353	1,198
1932	D	+45.4%	777	289	1,076
1928	D	+12.5%	383	298	681
1924	D	+20.3%	374	247	626
1920	D	+3.4%	545	509	1,057
1916	D	+16.8%	335	238	579
1912	D	+35.0%	354	139	615
1908	D	+22.6%	394	249	643
1904	D	+34.0%	356	175	533
1900	D	+26.6%	375	216	598
1896	D	+23.0%	386	241	630
1892	D	+32.2%	376	189	580
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%

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

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.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 44.9 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.5%

85+

1.3%

3.7%

75–84

3.5%

6.2%

65–74

6.6%

7.2%

55–64

7.4%

6.5%

45–54

6.8%

5.2%

35–44

5.5%

6.2%

25–34

5.8%

4.1%

18–24

3.4%

7.5%

5–17

7.0%

3.2%

2.3%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$58,750

Sequatchie County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Sequatchie County$58,750

Tennessee$69,595

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

21.9%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

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

20.1%

Methodist

5.3%

Other Christian

4.5%

Pentecostal & Holiness

4.0%

Catholic & Orthodox

1.7%

Mainline Protestant

0.7%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 63.7% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Sequatchie County sits in a narrow valley carved through the Cumberland Plateau, and its small, rural electorate has shifted decisively rightward over two decades, posting a 66-point Republican presidential margin in 2024.

The Democratic margin in Sequatchie County peaked at forty-five points in 1932. By 2000 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was sixty-six points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Sequatchie County's median household income of $58,750 sits well below state and national norms, and 22% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The shift here is part of a broader realignment of working-class places across the country. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Meigs County and McNairy County.

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Sequatchie County was solidly one party for decades. In the last twenty years, it flipped.