- Lead
- 40,902
- Total
- 128,199
- vs nation
- R+30.4
Tennessee 27th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 31,522
- Total
- 123,216
- vs nation
- R+30.0
- Lead
- 32,428
- Total
- 94,692
- vs nation
- R+36.3
- Lead
- 39,170
- Total
- 85,749
- vs nation
- R+49.5
- Lead
- 32,278
- Total
- 83,708
- vs nation
- R+45.8
- Lead
- 31,271
- Total
- 71,017
- vs nation
- R+41.6
- Lead
- 17,550
- Total
- 52,153
- vs nation
- R+34.2
- Lead
- 10,732
- Total
- 40,466
- vs nation
- R+35.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+31.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 215,7632024 5-year
- Population density
- 376 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 574 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $137,9252024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 81.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 3.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 5.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+81.8 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+46.3 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 21, GA · twin score 91.9
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 27th 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
90.7%
2,502 votes · D+81.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 90.1%
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
72.2%
61,921 votes · R+45.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 72.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
44,812votes
36.4% of the vote · R+25.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 42,576 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
83,478votes
65.1% of the vote · R+31.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 76,334 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
+97.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+72.5 · U.S. R+25.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alton B. Parker, 1904 · +78.3 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+49.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+45.7 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +45.8 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 | 32.5%37,190 | 67.5%77,190 | 114,380 |
| 2020 | R | 31.5%35,044 | 68.5%76,178 | 111,222 |
Tennessee 27th 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 81.8 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 46.3 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 31.9 points.
A population of 215,763, a 81% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $137,925 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 21 and State Senate District 27.
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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Tennessee 27th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/47027/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.