- Lead
- 1,457
- Total
- 32,741
- vs nation
- D+5.9
Tennessee 50th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,066
- Total
- 33,189
- vs nation
- D+1.8
- Lead
- 817
- Total
- 26,714
- vs nation
- R+5.1
- Lead
- 3,305
- Total
- 27,233
- vs nation
- R+16.0
- Lead
- 2,873
- Total
- 29,149
- vs nation
- R+17.1
- Lead
- 5,700
- Total
- 27,581
- vs nation
- R+18.2
- Lead
- 3,018
- Total
- 23,140
- vs nation
- R+13.6
- Lead
- 2,937
- Total
- 22,196
- vs nation
- R+21.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+4.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 66,4962024 5-year
- Population density
- 413 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 161 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $84,3062024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 70.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 11.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+48.7 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+50.9 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 60, TN · twin score 93.7
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 50th 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
73.9%
2,084 votes · D+48.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · 65.4%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
74.4%
12,641 votes · R+50.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 68.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
17,158votes
51.7% of the vote · D+6.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 16,763 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
16,538votes
60.0% of the vote · R+20.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · 15,803 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
Alton B. Parker1904
+51.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+31.8 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +37.2 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
+27.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+50.9 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · +27.1 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+4.5 in a deeply red state, District 50 stands out as a rare pocket of Democratic-leaning voters — likely anchored by urban or suburban density that bucks Tennessee's prevailing statewide pattern.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 48.7 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 50.9 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 4.5 points.
A population of 66,496, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $84,306 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 60 and State House District 10.
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.
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