- Lead
- 12,185
- Total
- 18,097
- vs nation
- D+68.8
Tennessee 87th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 16,052
- Total
- 21,603
- vs nation
- D+69.8
- Lead
- 15,296
- Total
- 20,120
- vs nation
- D+73.9
- Lead
- 16,921
- Total
- 22,054
- vs nation
- D+72.9
- Lead
- 18,787
- Total
- 24,154
- vs nation
- D+70.5
- Lead
- 15,246
- Total
- 21,189
- vs nation
- D+74.4
- Lead
- 13,316
- Total
- 18,622
- vs nation
- D+71.0
- Lead
- 12,499
- Total
- 17,993
- vs nation
- D+60.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+67.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 72,0562024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,015 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 23.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $43,0652024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 10.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 71.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+99.8 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 84, TN · twin score 99.8
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 87th 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
99.9%
5,157 votes · D+99.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1892 · 99.3%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
30.1%
2,978 votes · D+38.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · 18.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
21,435votes
88.7% of the vote · D+77.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 19,452 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
3,062votes
18.0% of the vote · D+63.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 2,978 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
+117.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+97.7 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +108.9 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
−42.9pts R vs U.S.
Place D+65.5 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1968 · −49.3 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Tennessee 87th State House District sits in the Border South and Appalachia. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 99.8 points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 7.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 67.3 points.
A population of 72,056, a 11% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $43,065 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 84 and State House District 93.
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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