/Tennessee
1956 Tennessee Senate Race (Class I)
CompletedFinal Election Results
Votes allocated by demographic reach each turn. Final 4 turns = 25%; earlier turns = 75%.
Final Results1.15M votes cast · 49 turns
| Candidate | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 790.2k | 68.9% | |
 Farmer-Labor Party | 357.2k | 31.1% |
Vote share
Persuasion Drivers
TNWhy Tennessee voters lean toward William Montgomery over James Estes Kefauver. Each driver is signed: + = lift, − = drag. Drivers are relative within this list and only move the persuadable slice of each party's vote, so their real effect is small. Coattail rows are direct share tilts in %. A raw vote lead does not equal the sum of these bars.
Persuasion drivers (pts of the persuadable slice)
Candidate Support0.0 pts
Policy alignment+0.1 pts
Money0.0 pts
Incumbency0.0 pts
Ceiling this cycle: at most 20.0% of James Estes Kefauver's vote can be persuaded across to William Montgomery, and 20.0% of William Montgomery's vote can be persuaded away. Registration lean sets the starting split and how hard a party is to move, not the final share. These drivers add up to 0.1 pts of that movable slice.
Election Trends
James Estes KefauverWilliam Montgomery