- Lead
- 51,844
- Total
- 101,507
- vs nation
- R+49.6
Tennessee 23rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 46,030
- Total
- 97,815
- vs nation
- R+51.5
- Lead
- 35,747
- Total
- 77,598
- vs nation
- R+48.2
- Lead
- 23,146
- Total
- 74,623
- vs nation
- R+34.9
- Lead
- 19,513
- Total
- 80,507
- vs nation
- R+31.5
- Lead
- 10,237
- Total
- 77,540
- vs nation
- R+10.7
- Lead
- 4,695
- Total
- 62,876
- vs nation
- D+6.9
- Lead
- 8,247
- Total
- 52,965
- vs nation
- D+7.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+51.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 216,0822024 5-year
- Population density
- 89 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2,430 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $78,5432024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 84.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+73.2 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+51.1 in 2024MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 16, TN · twin score 98.4
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 23rd 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. Roosevelt1932
86.3%
9,433 votes · D+73.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 84.3%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
75.0%
76,097 votes · R+51.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 72.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
John Kerry2004
33,418votes
43.1% of the vote · R+13.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · 33,359 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
76,097votes
75.0% of the vote · R+51.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 71,106 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
John W. Davis1924
+84.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+59.5 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Adlai Stevenson, 1956 · +68.0 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+51.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+47.1 · U.S. D+4.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · +49.6 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 | 25.7%23,686 | 74.3%68,582 | 92,268 |
| 2020 | R | 44.7%31,781 | 55.3%39,323 | 71,104 |
Tennessee 23rd 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 73.2 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 51.1 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 51.1 points.
A population of 216,082, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $78,543 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 16 and State Senate District 15.
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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