- Lead
- 37,206
- Total
- 56,992
- vs nation
- D+66.8
Tennessee 33rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 48,957
- Total
- 69,331
- vs nation
- D+66.2
- Lead
- 44,962
- Total
- 62,443
- vs nation
- D+69.9
- Lead
- 49,633
- Total
- 68,552
- vs nation
- D+68.5
- Lead
- 55,115
- Total
- 75,070
- vs nation
- D+66.1
- Lead
- 44,188
- Total
- 66,074
- vs nation
- D+69.3
- Lead
- 38,576
- Total
- 58,412
- vs nation
- D+65.5
- Lead
- 36,227
- Total
- 56,222
- vs nation
- D+55.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+65.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 203,1712024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,273 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 89.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $53,4352024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 14.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 69.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 12.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+99.4 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 29, TN · twin score 98.9
presidential history
Party record book
Tennessee 33rd 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
99.7%
15,603 votes · D+99.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Grover Cleveland, 1892 · 97.5%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
34.3%
11,051 votes · D+29.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George H. W. Bush, 1988 · 22.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
64,956votes
86.5% of the vote · D+73.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 58,930 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
11,569votes
21.5% of the vote · D+56.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 11,051 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
+113.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+93.4 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +104.3 pts
Republican
Barry Goldwater1964
−37.9pts R vs U.S.
Place D+60.4 · U.S. D+22.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1968 · −44.8 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Tennessee 33rd 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 99.4 points in 1936. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.3 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 65.3 points.
A population of 203,171, a 14% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $53,435 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 29 and State Senate District 19.
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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