- Lead
- 7,425
- Total
- 17,653
- vs nation
- D+43.5
Tennessee 55th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,615
- Total
- 20,735
- vs nation
- D+46.7
- Lead
- 8,052
- Total
- 16,703
- vs nation
- D+46.1
- Lead
- 7,011
- Total
- 16,187
- vs nation
- D+39.5
- Lead
- 7,981
- Total
- 17,621
- vs nation
- D+38.0
- Lead
- 5,673
- Total
- 15,693
- vs nation
- D+38.6
- Lead
- 5,792
- Total
- 13,746
- vs nation
- D+41.6
- Lead
- 5,272
- Total
- 13,150
- vs nation
- D+31.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+42.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 73,2642024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,025 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 18.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $65,4422024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 29.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 28.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 32.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+82.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 99, NC · twin score 96.2
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 55th 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
91.0%
2,022 votes · D+82.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · 86.8%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
48.2%
3,814 votes · D+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 39.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
15,244votes
73.5% of the vote · D+51.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 12,695 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
4,965votes
31.6% of the vote · D+36.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 4,922 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
+95.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+75.9 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +84.9 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1968
−19.5pts R vs U.S.
Place D+18.8 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · −24.6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | D | 100.0%23,598 | 0.0%0 | 23,598 |
Tennessee 55th State House District sits in the Border South and Appalachia. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 82.3 points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 9.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 42.1 points.
A population of 73,264, a 30% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $65,442 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 99 and State House District 52.
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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