Tennessee 26th State Senate District, Tennessee: Old Confederacy district. In 2024, voted R+54%. Republican peak: R+54 in 2024.
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+54MIT Election Lab
- Political archetype
- Old ConfederacyAkashic typology
- Population
- 218,4892024 5-year
- Median household income
- $59,4952024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 77.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 15.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 3.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+37 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+54 in 2024MIT Election Lab
| Year | Won | Margin | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | 21,967 | 74,191 | 97,101 | ||
| R | 24,354 | 70,503 | 96,236 | ||
| R | 22,012 | 59,357 | 83,489 | ||
| R | 28,865 | 55,103 | 84,965 | ||
| R | 31,931 | 53,986 | 87,046 | ||
| R | 34,450 | 46,710 | 81,604 | ||
| R | 32,300 | 36,992 | 70,065 | ||
| D | 30,313 | 29,168 | 63,366 | ||
| D | 32,160 | 28,711 | 66,508 | ||
| R | 24,229 | 31,136 | 55,654 | ||
| R | 26,454 | 31,843 | 58,705 | ||
| R | 28,534 | 29,760 | 59,992 | ||
| D | 30,754 | 22,597 | 53,764 | ||
| R | 12,849 | 31,172 | 45,288 | ||
| O | 11,726 | 17,117 | 49,524 | ||
| R | 21,600 | 22,774 | 44,374 | ||
| R | 15,315 | 21,216 | 37,995 | ||
| R | 15,511 | 16,542 | 34,348 | ||
| R | 17,515 | 17,781 | 35,420 | ||
| D | 13,074 | 11,259 | 29,341 | ||
| D | 15,406 | 13,118 | 28,561 | ||
| D | 18,851 | 10,716 | 29,634 | ||
| D | 15,312 | 8,386 | 23,820 | ||
| D | 12,984 | 5,907 | 19,022 | ||
| R | 10,387 | 10,614 | 21,045 | ||
| D | 9,771 | 7,435 | 17,419 | ||
| R | 14,200 | 15,177 | 29,468 | ||
| D | 10,816 | 8,196 | 19,112 | ||
| D | 7,688 | 4,144 | 15,594 | ||
| D | 9,151 | 6,890 | 16,348 | ||
| D | 9,863 | 7,462 | 17,741 | ||
| D | 11,256 | 8,732 | 20,193 | ||
| D | 13,045 | 10,307 | 23,493 | ||
| D | 10,667 | 7,183 | 19,909 | ||
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Demographics
Tennessee 26th State Senate District sits in the Border South and Appalachia. For nearly a century after Reconstruction, the district voted Democratic — not because of New Deal politics, but because of the lingering memory of the Civil War. The Democratic party of the Solid South was the party of segregation, and in Tennessee 26th State Senate District as throughout the former Confederacy, Republican identification was politically untenable until the second half of the twentieth century.
The shift began with civil rights. 2000 marked the realignment in Tennessee 26th State Senate District, by a seven points margin. The Republican margin reached its widest at fifty-four points in 2024. The 2024 margin was fifty-four points.
The political shift has tracked, in Tennessee 26th State Senate District, the political shift of the South more broadly. A 78% non-Hispanic-white share, a median household income of $59,495, and a 17% poverty rate describe the demographic context.
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State Senate District 26, Tennessee. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/47026/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.