Tennessee's congressional districts
Tennessee's congressional districts
!Map of Tennessee's congressional districts since January 3, 2023 Interactive map version
Tennessee's congressional districts
There are currently nine United States congressional districts in Tennessee based on results from the 2020 United States census. There have been as few as eight and as many as thirteen congressional districts in Tennessee. The 13th district and the 12th district were lost after the 1840 census. The 11th district was lost after the 1850 census and the 10th district was last lost after the 1950 census. The 9th district was briefly lost after the 1970 census but was regained after the 1980 census.
Current districts and representatives
The Tennessee congressional maps are an example of partisan gerrymandering, in this case by the Republican-controlled state legislature, which in 2022 drew maps to ‘crack’ the Democratic stronghold of Nashville across three otherwise Republican districts, ensuring three Republican representatives, despite Nashville’s strong Democratic lean and population sufficient for a single district. Critics claimed that this Republican gerrymander ‘diminished the influence of Black voters and other voters of color concentrated in Nashville’, by splitting them up and adding portions of the Nashville community into districts that are overwhelmingly white and Republican, thus diluting the voting power of Black voters in the state.’ However, in 2024 a federal court ruled that while the gerrymander is a clear ‘political gerrymander’ it didn’t fit the criteria for a ‘racial gerrymander.’
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