- Lead
- 5,289
- Total
- 28,720
- vs nation
- R+16.9
Tennessee 13th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,046
- Total
- 28,052
- vs nation
- R+15.3
- Lead
- 4,034
- Total
- 18,776
- vs nation
- R+23.6
- Lead
- 3,461
- Total
- 17,348
- vs nation
- R+23.8
- Lead
- 2,530
- Total
- 17,951
- vs nation
- R+21.4
- Lead
- 2,909
- Total
- 14,820
- vs nation
- R+17.2
- Lead
- 546
- Total
- 11,009
- vs nation
- R+5.5
- Lead
- 120
- Total
- 9,167
- vs nation
- R+7.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+18.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 66,9782024 5-year
- Population density
- 553 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 121 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $92,6692024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 59.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 17.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+78.2 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+26.1 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 34, TN · twin score 97.0
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 13th 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
88.9%
780 votes · D+78.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 88.2%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
61.8%
1,910 votes · R+26.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 59.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
12,209votes
43.5% of the vote · R+10.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 11,503 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
16,792votes
58.5% of the vote · R+18.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 15,255 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
+83.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+57.9 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944 · +63.4 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+23.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+20.0 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +23.6 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 | 38.8%9,569 | 61.2%15,105 | 24,674 |
| 2020 | R | 44.0%11,160 | 56.0%14,215 | 25,375 |
Tennessee 13th 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 78.2 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 26.1 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.4 points.
A population of 66,978, a 59% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $92,669 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 34 and State House District 48.
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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