- Lead
- 37,197
- Total
- 102,614
- vs nation
- R+34.8
Tennessee 5th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 30,510
- Total
- 94,486
- vs nation
- R+36.7
- Lead
- 28,349
- Total
- 76,808
- vs nation
- R+39.0
- Lead
- 26,881
- Total
- 74,151
- vs nation
- R+40.1
- Lead
- 23,422
- Total
- 77,936
- vs nation
- R+37.3
- Lead
- 19,657
- Total
- 74,728
- vs nation
- R+23.8
- Lead
- 8,723
- Total
- 64,815
- vs nation
- R+14.0
- Lead
- 1,148
- Total
- 59,570
- vs nation
- R+10.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+36.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 203,3492024 5-year
- Population density
- 326 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 624 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $71,8062024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 80.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+10.8 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+54.0 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 2, TN · twin score 95.5
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 5th State Senate 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
55.1%
7,102 votes · D+10.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 54.0%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
76.9%
6,300 votes · R+54.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 73.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
32,034votes
31.2% of the vote · R+36.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 31,005 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
69,231votes
67.5% of the vote · R+36.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 61,515 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
Jimmy Carter1976
+3.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+6.0 · U.S. D+2.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Adlai Stevenson, 1956 · +1.1 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+40.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+36.3 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +39.0 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 | 29.7%28,372 | 70.3%67,102 | 95,474 |
| 2020 | R | 30.4%27,442 | 69.6%62,724 | 90,166 |
Tennessee 5th State Senate District sits in the Border South and Appalachia. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 10.8 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 54.0 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 36.2 points.
A population of 203,349, a 81% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $71,806 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 2 and State Senate District 4.
The state-senate 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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