Lewis County, Tennessee

2024 results by precinct

9 precincts · 5,890 votes cast

Trump · R+66

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−65.6%	991	4,852	5,890
2020	R	−60.7%	1,072	4,474	5,609
2016	R	−58.3%	890	3,585	4,622
2012	R	−35.6%	1,447	3,117	4,694
2008	R	−23.7%	1,804	2,951	4,834
2004	R	−12.4%	2,192	2,819	5,054
2000	D	+5.5%	2,281	2,037	4,420
1996	D	+18.7%	1,971	1,298	3,598
1992	D	+30.7%	2,491	1,218	4,152
1988	D	+3.4%	1,419	1,324	2,761
1984	R	−5.4%	1,556	1,733	3,306
1980	D	+33.7%	2,190	1,076	3,309
1976	D	+58.4%	2,391	617	3,036
1972	D	+3.6%	1,138	1,056	2,248
1968	D	+24.9%	1,088	455	2,540
1964	D	+68.3%	2,061	388	2,449
1960	D	+49.4%	1,723	580	2,312
1956	D	+43.1%	1,321	522	1,854
1952	D	+41.3%	1,308	540	1,859
1948	D	+46.9%	1,148	381	1,636
1944	D	+58.2%	955	252	1,207
1940	D	+56.8%	1,343	368	1,716
1936	D	+52.7%	1,068	331	1,399
1932	D	+70.7%	799	137	936
1928	D	+21.2%	414	269	683
1924	D	+22.6%	310	191	526
1920	R	−5.0%	403	446	853
1916	R	−3.3%	387	414	807
1912	D	+37.8%	370	126	646
1908	D	+13.5%	465	354	821
1904	D	+29.7%	415	220	656
1900	D	+32.8%	400	202	604
1896	D	+23.5%	329	204	533
1892	D	+37.6%	231	95	362
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	—	No data	—	—	—
1880	—	No data	—	—	—
1876	—	No data	—	—	—

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

100.0%

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 41.9 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.8%

85+

0.6%

2.7%

75–84

4.1%

5.8%

65–74

6.6%

55–64

6.6%

5.4%

45–54

7.0%

6.4%

35–44

5.5%

6.7%

25–34

6.1%

5.0%

18–24

3.1%

8.3%

5–17

7.2%

3.1%

2.5%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$56,285

Lewis County ranks near the middle of US counties.

Lewis County$56,285

Tennessee$69,595

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

16.7%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

0.0%

speak English only

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Other Christian

18.2%

Baptist

6.5%

Methodist

4.0%

Catholic & Orthodox

1.6%

Pentecostal & Holiness

0.7%

Mainline Protestant

0.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 68.9% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Lewis County's 2024 presidential margin of R+65.5 reflects a pattern common across rural Middle Tennessee's small, majority-white communities, where Republican performance has deepened steadily over the past two decades.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Lewis County peaked at seventy-one points in 1932; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 2004 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of twelve points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Lewis County's median household income of $56,285 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 17% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Henry County and White County.

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For seventy-six years, Lewis County voted Democratic. Then it stopped.