- Lead
- 19,855
- Total
- 98,591
- vs nation
- R+18.7
Tennessee 6th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 15,688
- Total
- 98,090
- vs nation
- R+20.4
- Lead
- 18,885
- Total
- 80,229
- vs nation
- R+25.6
- Lead
- 22,118
- Total
- 76,822
- vs nation
- R+32.6
- Lead
- 18,856
- Total
- 82,846
- vs nation
- R+30.0
- Lead
- 19,715
- Total
- 79,470
- vs nation
- R+22.4
- Lead
- 11,341
- Total
- 67,093
- vs nation
- R+17.4
- Lead
- 4,085
- Total
- 62,277
- vs nation
- R+15.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+20.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 203,2992024 5-year
- Population density
- 638 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 319 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $74,0012024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 79.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 9.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+24.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+44.8 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 7, TN · twin score 97.8
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 6th 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
62.1%
8,887 votes · D+24.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 59.3%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
71.9%
6,509 votes · R+44.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 71.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
40,259votes
41.0% of the vote · R+16.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 38,596 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
58,451votes
59.3% of the vote · R+20.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 55,947 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
+13.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+5.4 · U.S. R+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · +9.0 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+32.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+28.8 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +30.0 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 | 37.6%34,133 | 62.4%56,676 | 90,809 |
| 2020 | R | 37.9%33,429 | 62.1%54,790 | 88,219 |
Tennessee 6th 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 24.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 44.8 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 20.1 points.
A population of 203,299, a 80% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $74,001 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 7 and State Senate District 17.
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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