- Lead
- 9,851
- Total
- 31,177
- vs nation
- R+30.1
Tennessee 73rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 9,695
- Total
- 32,777
- vs nation
- R+34.0
- Lead
- 9,952
- Total
- 28,586
- vs nation
- R+36.9
- Lead
- 8,903
- Total
- 30,024
- vs nation
- R+33.5
- Lead
- 8,979
- Total
- 32,233
- vs nation
- R+35.1
- Lead
- 9,473
- Total
- 28,755
- vs nation
- R+30.5
- Lead
- 6,695
- Total
- 24,871
- vs nation
- R+27.4
- Lead
- 5,349
- Total
- 21,640
- vs nation
- R+33.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+31.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 67,3352024 5-year
- Population density
- 169 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 400 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $73,3632024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 67.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 21.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+51.5 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+62.3 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 9, SC · twin score 95.7
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 73rd 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
75.5%
3,461 votes · D+51.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 74.9%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
79.7%
13,593 votes · R+62.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 70.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
11,500votes
35.7% of the vote · R+27.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 11,311 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
21,006votes
64.1% of the vote · R+29.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · 20,479 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
John W. Davis1924
+54.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+28.9 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · +40.2 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+45.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+23.3 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +39.2 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 | 37.5%9,408 | 62.5%15,687 | 25,095 |
| 2020 | R | 40.5%11,190 | 59.5%16,409 | 27,599 |
Tennessee 73rd State House District sits in the Border South and Appalachia. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 51.5 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 62.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 31.6 points.
A population of 67,335, a 68% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $73,363 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 9 and State House District 13.
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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