- Lead
- 12,968
- Total
- 37,579
- vs nation
- R+33.0
Tennessee 29th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,594
- Total
- 31,494
- vs nation
- R+38.1
- Lead
- 10,789
- Total
- 28,093
- vs nation
- R+40.5
- Lead
- 10,599
- Total
- 27,920
- vs nation
- R+41.8
- Lead
- 10,268
- Total
- 28,955
- vs nation
- R+42.7
- Lead
- 10,448
- Total
- 27,034
- vs nation
- R+36.2
- Lead
- 8,376
- Total
- 23,559
- vs nation
- R+36.1
- Lead
- 6,195
- Total
- 21,298
- vs nation
- R+37.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+34.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 73,2602024 5-year
- Population density
- 526 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 139 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $90,3972024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 74.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+17.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+62.6 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 45, AL · twin score 96.2
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 29th 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
58.4%
2,354 votes · D+17.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 50.7%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
79.5%
13,875 votes · R+62.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 75.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
12,048votes
32.1% of the vote · R+34.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 10,169 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
25,016votes
66.6% of the vote · R+34.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 20,763 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
−3.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+16.4 · U.S. D+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · −3.7 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+49.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+27.0 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +42.7 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 | 41.0%13,188 | 59.0%19,009 | 32,197 |
Tennessee 29th 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 17.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 62.6 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 34.5 points.
A population of 73,260, a 75% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $90,397 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 45 and State House District 26.
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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