- Lead
- 20,402
- Total
- 81,876
- vs nation
- R+23.4
Tennessee 32nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 17,358
- Total
- 88,627
- vs nation
- R+24.0
- Lead
- 17,607
- Total
- 76,324
- vs nation
- R+25.2
- Lead
- 16,654
- Total
- 82,431
- vs nation
- R+24.1
- Lead
- 16,256
- Total
- 88,485
- vs nation
- R+25.6
- Lead
- 19,056
- Total
- 83,117
- vs nation
- R+20.5
- Lead
- 14,481
- Total
- 71,294
- vs nation
- R+20.8
- Lead
- 10,599
- Total
- 68,238
- vs nation
- R+24.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+24.9MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 203,1692024 5-year
- Population density
- 192 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 1,061 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $72,7742024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 57.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 29.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+88.8 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+57.4 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 36, LA · twin score 92.0
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 32nd 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
94.3%
13,862 votes · D+88.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 88.9%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
77.7%
42,370 votes · R+57.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 66.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
35,744votes
40.4% of the vote · R+18.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 34,947 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
52,305votes
59.0% of the vote · R+19.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · 52,000 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
+71.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+52.0 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · +68.0 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
+40.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+17.4 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · +34.3 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 | 45.0%31,365 | 55.0%38,361 | 69,726 |
| 2020 | R | 47.3%37,807 | 52.7%42,097 | 79,904 |
Tennessee 32nd 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 88.8 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 57.4 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 24.9 points.
A population of 203,169, a 57% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $72,774 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 36 and State Senate District 11.
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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