- Lead
- 1,532
- Total
- 21,380
- vs nation
- D+8.6
Tennessee 80th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,150
- Total
- 24,005
- vs nation
- D+12.8
- Lead
- 4,752
- Total
- 22,335
- vs nation
- D+19.2
- Lead
- 7,876
- Total
- 25,104
- vs nation
- D+27.5
- Lead
- 8,733
- Total
- 27,174
- vs nation
- D+24.9
- Lead
- 7,325
- Total
- 24,396
- vs nation
- D+32.5
- Lead
- 7,445
- Total
- 21,361
- vs nation
- D+34.3
- Lead
- 7,287
- Total
- 19,432
- vs nation
- D+29.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+7.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 66,6552024 5-year
- Population density
- 75 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 892 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $42,2772024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 35.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 57.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+90.4 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+12.7 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 98, AL · twin score 96.3
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 80th 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
95.1%
5,654 votes · D+90.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 93.9%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
54.1%
6,720 votes · R+12.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 45.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
17,839votes
65.6% of the vote · D+32.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 16,387 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
9,798votes
45.8% of the vote · D+7.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 9,764 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
+106.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+81.3 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +94.4 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
−6.6pts R vs U.S.
Place D+29.2 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · −8.6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | R | 39.0%9,397 | 61.0%14,674 | 24,071 |
| 2020 | R | 42.2%10,810 | 57.8%14,796 | 25,606 |
Its 2024 presidential margin of D+7.2 ranked among Tennessee's closest, against D+32.1 in 2008. Evangelical Protestant adherents were the largest religious group at 48.5% in the 2020 US Religion Census.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 90.4 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 12.7 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 10.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.2 points.
A population of 66,655, a 35% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $42,277 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 98 and State House District 45.
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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