- Lead
- 17,372
- Total
- 28,842
- vs nation
- D+61.7
Tennessee 54th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 19,536
- Total
- 31,650
- vs nation
- D+57.3
- Lead
- 15,633
- Total
- 25,834
- vs nation
- D+58.4
- Lead
- 14,085
- Total
- 25,134
- vs nation
- D+52.2
- Lead
- 15,935
- Total
- 27,467
- vs nation
- D+50.7
- Lead
- 12,165
- Total
- 24,062
- vs nation
- D+53.0
- Lead
- 11,799
- Total
- 21,228
- vs nation
- D+55.1
- Lead
- 10,774
- Total
- 20,110
- vs nation
- D+45.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+60.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 71,3892024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,166 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 61.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $62,2912024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 28.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 55.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 11.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+87.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 62, GA · twin score 98.7
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 54th 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
93.6%
3,480 votes · D+87.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · 91.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
40.1%
4,552 votes · D+18.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 31.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
24,993votes
79.0% of the vote · D+61.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 22,827 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
5,902votes
24.5% of the vote · D+50.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · 5,667 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
+103.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+83.6 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +95.9 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1968
−32.4pts R vs U.S.
Place D+31.7 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · −39.1 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+60.2, this district ranks among the most reliably Democratic constituencies in a state where Republicans dominate most of the legislative map.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 87.3 points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.5 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 60.2 points.
A population of 71,389, a 29% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,291 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 62 and State House District 63.
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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