- Lead
- 14,751
- Total
- 20,977
- vs nation
- D+71.8
Tennessee 91st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 18,910
- Total
- 26,146
- vs nation
- D+67.9
- Lead
- 18,325
- Total
- 24,740
- vs nation
- D+72.0
- Lead
- 20,263
- Total
- 27,036
- vs nation
- D+71.1
- Lead
- 22,441
- Total
- 29,668
- vs nation
- D+68.4
- Lead
- 18,196
- Total
- 25,940
- vs nation
- D+72.6
- Lead
- 15,841
- Total
- 23,241
- vs nation
- D+67.6
- Lead
- 14,917
- Total
- 22,173
- vs nation
- D+58.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+70.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 71,7862024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,620 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 27.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $42,4682024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 21.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 68.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+99.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 85, TN · twin score 98.9
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 91st 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
99.6%
6,240 votes · D+99.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 97.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
30.7%
3,861 votes · D+34.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 20.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
25,981votes
87.6% of the vote · D+75.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 23,549 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
4,259votes
20.1% of the vote · D+59.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 3,861 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
+112.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+92.7 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +105.4 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
−41.0pts R vs U.S.
Place D+63.6 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1968 · −43.5 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 | D | 61.8%14,768 | 38.2%9,130 | 23,898 |
| 2020 | D | 63.2%18,173 | 36.8%10,560 | 28,733 |
Tennessee 91st 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 99.3 points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 70.3 points.
A population of 71,786, a 22% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $42,468 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 85 and State House District 76.
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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