- Lead
- 11,914
- Total
- 36,084
- vs nation
- R+31.5
Tennessee 68th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 10,187
- Total
- 33,066
- vs nation
- R+35.3
- Lead
- 8,827
- Total
- 24,724
- vs nation
- R+37.8
- Lead
- 6,814
- Total
- 23,646
- vs nation
- R+32.7
- Lead
- 6,387
- Total
- 23,905
- vs nation
- R+34.0
- Lead
- 7,494
- Total
- 21,080
- vs nation
- R+33.1
- Lead
- 3,471
- Total
- 16,323
- vs nation
- R+21.8
- Lead
- 2,013
- Total
- 13,675
- vs nation
- R+23.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+33.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 73,3582024 5-year
- Population density
- 276 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 265 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $95,7542024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 73.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+46.2 in 1948MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+35.7 in 2016MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 62, AL · twin score 92.0
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 68th 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. Roosevelt1944
72.6%
998 votes · D+45.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 70.5%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
67.5%
14,238 votes · R+35.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 66.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
11,847votes
32.8% of the vote · R+33.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 11,091 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
23,761votes
65.8% of the vote · R+33.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 21,278 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
Adlai Stevenson1956
+45.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+30.1 · U.S. R+15.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Harry S. Truman, 1948 · +41.7 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+37.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+35.7 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +35.3 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 | 39.9%9,436 | 60.1%14,239 | 23,675 |
| 2020 | R | 37.9%8,182 | 62.1%13,423 | 21,605 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of R+33, this mid-sized district of roughly 73,000 residents sits firmly outside competitive territory, making down-ballot races typically dependent on primary outcomes rather than general-election contests.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 46.2 points in 1948 and a Republican high of 35.7 points in 2016. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 33.0 points.
A population of 73,358, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $95,754 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 162.
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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