- Lead
- 14,600
- Total
- 28,949
- vs nation
- R+49.0
Tennessee 81st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,485
- Total
- 29,708
- vs nation
- R+49.8
- Lead
- 11,309
- Total
- 25,644
- vs nation
- R+46.2
- Lead
- 9,467
- Total
- 26,467
- vs nation
- R+39.6
- Lead
- 9,160
- Total
- 27,847
- vs nation
- R+40.2
- Lead
- 6,872
- Total
- 24,040
- vs nation
- R+26.1
- Lead
- 3,755
- Total
- 18,575
- vs nation
- R+20.7
- Lead
- 936
- Total
- 16,950
- vs nation
- R+14.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+50.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 66,4502024 5-year
- Population density
- 79 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 837 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $72,9462024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 73.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 18.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 2.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+95.5 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+50.4 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 79, TN · twin score 97.2
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 81st 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
97.7%
5,157 votes · D+95.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 95.1%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
74.8%
21,643 votes · R+50.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 72.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
9,224votes
33.1% of the vote · R+32.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John Kerry, 2004 · 8,515 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
21,643votes
74.8% of the vote · R+50.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 21,385 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
+105.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+80.6 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Smith, 1928 · +83.6 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+49.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+45.4 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +49.0 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 | 24.4%6,170 | 75.6%19,120 | 25,290 |
| 2020 | R | 25.0%6,841 | 75.0%20,470 | 27,311 |
Tennessee 81st 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 95.5 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 50.4 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 50.4 points.
A population of 66,450, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,946 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 79 and State House District 92.
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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