- Lead
- 10,160
- Total
- 34,409
- vs nation
- D+31.0
Tennessee 56th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 12,453
- Total
- 35,741
- vs nation
- D+30.4
- Lead
- 8,744
- Total
- 28,994
- vs nation
- D+28.1
- Lead
- 6,743
- Total
- 27,946
- vs nation
- D+20.3
- Lead
- 7,938
- Total
- 30,103
- vs nation
- D+19.1
- Lead
- 4,355
- Total
- 27,414
- vs nation
- D+18.3
- Lead
- 5,403
- Total
- 23,748
- vs nation
- D+22.2
- Lead
- 4,820
- Total
- 23,167
- vs nation
- D+12.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+29.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 72,8412024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,524 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 16.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $102,6092024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 78.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+74.9 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+19.5 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 49, NC · twin score 89.2
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 56th 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
87.1%
3,049 votes · D+74.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · 79.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
57.9%
8,715 votes · R+19.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 50.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
23,713votes
66.3% of the vote · D+34.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 21,962 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
11,802votes
34.3% of the vote · D+29.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 11,391 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
+83.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+63.6 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +70.6 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
−3.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+19.5 · U.S. R+23.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1968 · −4.6 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.
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+29.5, this district stands as a strong outlier in a state that has trended heavily Republican at the statewide level, suggesting a dense urban or majority-minority core anchoring its electorate.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 74.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 19.5 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 29.5 points.
A population of 72,841, a 79% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $102,609 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 49 and State House District 7.
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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