- Lead
- 3,319
- Total
- 24,381
- vs nation
- D+15.1
Tennessee 90th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,359
- Total
- 26,311
- vs nation
- D+12.1
- Lead
- 978
- Total
- 21,279
- vs nation
- D+2.5
- Lead
- 126
- Total
- 19,705
- vs nation
- R+3.2
- Lead
- 1,638
- Total
- 21,711
- vs nation
- D+0.3
- Lead
- 1,094
- Total
- 20,632
- vs nation
- D+7.8
- Lead
- 2,353
- Total
- 17,958
- vs nation
- D+12.6
- Lead
- 3,791
- Total
- 17,420
- vs nation
- D+13.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+13.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 67,1822024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,417 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 27.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $54,1862024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 70.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+50.0 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+17.6 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 45, OK · twin score 84.6
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 90th 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
74.8%
3,253 votes · D+50.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 72.9%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
57.6%
5,671 votes · R+17.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 56.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
14,996votes
57.0% of the vote · D+16.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 13,598 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
10,637votes
40.4% of the vote · D+16.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 10,279 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
William J. Bryan1900
+49.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+42.1 · U.S. R+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +41.0 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+3.2pts R vs U.S.
Place D+0.6 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1968 · +0.3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | R | 37.9%11,047 | 62.1%18,106 | 29,153 |
With a 2024 presidential margin of D+13.6, this Memphis-area district stands out sharply from Tennessee's overwhelmingly Republican legislative map, reflecting the concentrated Democratic lean of its urban core.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 50.0 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 17.6 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 13.6 points.
A population of 67,182, a 70% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,186 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 45 and State House District 50.
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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