- Lead
- 38,969
- Total
- 70,669
- vs nation
- D+56.6
Tennessee 19th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 48,071
- Total
- 81,351
- vs nation
- D+54.6
- Lead
- 38,039
- Total
- 63,203
- vs nation
- D+58.1
- Lead
- 34,429
- Total
- 61,127
- vs nation
- D+52.5
- Lead
- 38,819
- Total
- 66,728
- vs nation
- D+50.9
- Lead
- 29,692
- Total
- 58,586
- vs nation
- D+53.1
- Lead
- 28,712
- Total
- 51,729
- vs nation
- D+55.0
- Lead
- 26,207
- Total
- 49,184
- vs nation
- D+44.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+55.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 215,3792024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,835 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 117 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $62,7022024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 29.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 50.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+87.7 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 40, NC · twin score 98.1
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 19th 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
93.7%
8,453 votes · D+87.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · 90.7%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
39.9%
11,078 votes · D+18.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 30.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
63,077votes
77.5% of the vote · D+59.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 54,138 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
15,169votes
21.5% of the vote · D+55.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 15,006 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
+102.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+82.9 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +96.0 pts
Republican
Richard Nixon1968
−32.1pts R vs U.S.
Place D+31.4 · U.S. R+0.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barry Goldwater, 1964 · −39.9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | D | 100.0%69,374 | 0.0%0 | 69,374 |
| 2018 | D | 71.3%50,531 | 28.7%20,382 | 70,913 |
Tennessee 19th State Senate District sits in the Border South and Appalachia. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 87.7 points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 55.1 points.
A population of 215,379, a 29% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,702 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 40 and State Senate District 41.
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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