- Lead
- 10,547
- Total
- 28,515
- vs nation
- R+35.5
Tennessee 7th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 9,206
- Total
- 27,694
- vs nation
- R+37.7
- Lead
- 8,774
- Total
- 22,532
- vs nation
- R+41.0
- Lead
- 7,530
- Total
- 21,821
- vs nation
- R+38.4
- Lead
- 6,530
- Total
- 22,246
- vs nation
- R+36.6
- Lead
- 5,876
- Total
- 20,458
- vs nation
- R+26.3
- Lead
- 2,810
- Total
- 17,330
- vs nation
- R+16.7
- Lead
- 1,929
- Total
- 16,000
- vs nation
- R+20.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+37.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 66,4562024 5-year
- Population density
- 394 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 169 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $54,2482024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 83.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+12.7 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+48.6 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 6, TN · twin score 97.9
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 7th State House 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
51.4%
4,929 votes · D+2.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Jimmy Carter, 1976 · 50.2%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
74.3%
2,152 votes · R+48.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 73.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
8,981votes
32.4% of the vote · R+33.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 8,795 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
19,342votes
67.8% of the vote · R+37.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 18,187 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
+1.8pts D vs U.S.
Place R+23.4 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Jimmy Carter, 1976 · −0.4 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+41.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+38.9 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · +38.4 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R | 28.6%7,879 | 71.4%19,628 | 27,507 |
| 2020 | R | 32.6%8,946 | 67.4%18,496 | 27,442 |
Tennessee 7th State House District sits in the Border South and Appalachia. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 12.7 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 48.6 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 37.0 points.
A population of 66,456, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,248 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 6 and State House District 71.
The state-house 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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