- Lead
- 6,340
- Total
- 27,787
- vs nation
- R+21.3
Tennessee 37th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,239
- Total
- 27,978
- vs nation
- R+23.2
- Lead
- 6,066
- Total
- 22,636
- vs nation
- R+28.9
- Lead
- 5,329
- Total
- 20,803
- vs nation
- R+29.5
- Lead
- 4,290
- Total
- 21,448
- vs nation
- R+27.3
- Lead
- 4,524
- Total
- 17,767
- vs nation
- R+23.0
- Lead
- 1,448
- Total
- 13,042
- vs nation
- R+11.6
- Lead
- 474
- Total
- 10,766
- vs nation
- R+12.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+22.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 66,7332024 5-year
- Population density
- 884 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 75.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $87,0822024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 66.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 13.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 11.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+74.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+32.6 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 34, TN · twin score 93.1
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 37th 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
86.9%
859 votes · D+74.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 86.4%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
65.0%
2,383 votes · R+32.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 62.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
11,075votes
39.6% of the vote · R+18.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 10,503 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
16,843votes
60.6% of the vote · R+22.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 16,314 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
+76.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+51.1 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944 · +60.3 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+29.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+25.6 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +28.9 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%9,534 | 61.2%15,050 | 24,584 |
| 2020 | R | 44.0%11,120 | 56.0%14,163 | 25,283 |
Tennessee 37th 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 74.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 32.6 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 22.8 points.
A population of 66,733, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $87,082 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 49.
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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