- Lead
- 16,905
- Total
- 90,416
- vs nation
- R+17.2
Tennessee 7th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,128
- Total
- 92,897
- vs nation
- R+18.6
- Lead
- 18,545
- Total
- 76,932
- vs nation
- R+26.2
- Lead
- 21,804
- Total
- 73,266
- vs nation
- R+33.6
- Lead
- 18,558
- Total
- 79,058
- vs nation
- R+30.7
- Lead
- 19,365
- Total
- 75,767
- vs nation
- R+23.1
- Lead
- 11,311
- Total
- 63,863
- vs nation
- R+18.2
- Lead
- 4,401
- Total
- 59,444
- vs nation
- R+15.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+18.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 204,3322024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,550 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 132 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $76,3652024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 78.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+22.9 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+45.2 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 6, TN · twin score 97.8
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 7th 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
61.2%
8,342 votes · D+22.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 58.4%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
71.6%
27,520 votes · R+45.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 71.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
38,847votes
41.8% of the vote · R+14.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 36,036 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
52,941votes
58.6% of the vote · R+18.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 51,975 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
+10.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+3.4 · U.S. R+7.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · +7.7 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+33.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+29.8 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +30.7 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%34,306 | 62.4%56,964 | 91,270 |
| 2020 | R | 37.9%33,599 | 62.1%55,069 | 88,668 |
Tennessee 7th 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 22.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 45.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.7 points.
A population of 204,332, a 78% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $76,365 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 6 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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