The politics in Memphis, TN 38141 are largely dominated by the Democratic Party. The district is represented in the Tennessee House of Representatives by Democrat Joe Towns Jr., and in the Tennessee Senate by Democrat Reginald Tate. In 2018, a referendum was passed to change the structure of city government from mayor-council to council-manager. The resulting City Council consists of ten members representing nine districts and one at-large position. Most recently, several Democrats have been elected to local positions including Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, District Attorney Amy Weirich, and Juvenile Court Judge Dan Michael. Despite some disagreements between the parties on certain policies, both sides continue to work together for the betterment of the community.
The political climate in Zip 38141 (Memphis, TN) is strongly liberal.
Shelby County, TN is strongly liberal. In Shelby County, TN 64.4% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 34.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.6% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Shelby county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 64.4% to 34.0%.
Shelby county voted Democratic in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 38141 (Memphis, TN) is strongly liberal.
Memphis, Tennessee is strongly liberal.
Shelby County, Tennessee is strongly liberal.
Memphis Metro Area is somewhat liberal.
Tennessee is moderately conservative.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Memphis, Tennessee: D D D D D D
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D for the Democrat and I for the Independent. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in zip 38141 (Memphis)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 118 contributions totaling $6,012 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $51 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 43 contributions totaling $4,240 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $99 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)