- Lead
- 20,883
- Total
- 110,561
- vs nation
- R+17.4
Tennessee 11th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 16,977
- Total
- 105,453
- vs nation
- R+20.6
- Lead
- 19,110
- Total
- 89,388
- vs nation
- R+23.5
- Lead
- 17,816
- Total
- 89,068
- vs nation
- R+23.9
- Lead
- 15,832
- Total
- 92,959
- vs nation
- R+24.3
- Lead
- 17,769
- Total
- 86,149
- vs nation
- R+18.2
- Lead
- 13,256
- Total
- 75,481
- vs nation
- R+18.1
- Lead
- 7,927
- Total
- 69,134
- vs nation
- R+20.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+18.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 213,9092024 5-year
- Population density
- 512 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 418 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $81,8052024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 73.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 15.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 4.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+35.6 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+49.7 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 6, TN · twin score 90.3
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 11th 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
67.5%
9,768 votes · D+35.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 60.7%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
72.8%
38,373 votes · R+49.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 67.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
44,012votes
39.8% of the vote · R+18.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 43,182 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
64,895votes
58.7% of the vote · R+18.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 60,159 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
James M. Cox1920
+16.2pts D vs U.S.
Place R+10.0 · U.S. R+26.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +14.3 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+30.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+7.6 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +26.5 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 | R | 41.0%38,507 | 59.0%55,505 | 94,012 |
Tennessee 11th 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 35.6 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 49.7 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 18.9 points.
A population of 213,909, a 74% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $81,805 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 3.
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.
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