Weighted last turnout
39.9%
Across the current Memphis pilot cluster set.
Turnout in Shelby County
455,410 people here could have voted, and didn't.
578,784 people in Shelby County are registered to vote. In the last primary, 123,374 of them did — about 21.3%. The rest are not against voting. In most cases nobody asked them.
Baseline from the 2026 primary
Where Shelby County stands today
1 in 100 of the people who sat out is 4,554 people.
That alone would have taken turnout here from 21.3% to 22.1%. The sliders below are for trying your own number.
Picture it
If Shelby County were 100 registered voters
Each square is one percent of the people registered here. Filled squares voted in the last primary.
Voted Democratic (14)Voted Republican (7)Did not vote (79)
The biggest group here is the empty one. That is the opportunity — not changing anyone's mind, just reaching people who already agree and stayed home.
What was on the ballot here
Every seat Shelby County voted on
These are the actual races people in this county saw. The bar shows how much of the primary vote went Democratic.
CongressionalTennessee's 5th Congressional District39%CongressionalTennessee's 8th Congressional District41%CongressionalTennessee's 9th Congressional District42%State SenateTennessee Senate District 29—State SenateTennessee Senate District 3139%State SenateTennessee Senate District 33—State HouseTennessee House of Representatives District 8342%State HouseTennessee House of Representatives District 84—State HouseTennessee House of Representatives District 85—State HouseTennessee House of Representatives District 86—State HouseTennessee House of Representatives District 8792%State HouseTennessee House of Representatives District 88—State HouseTennessee House of Representatives District 91—State HouseTennessee House of Representatives District 93—State HouseTennessee House of Representatives District 95—State HouseTennessee House of Representatives District 96—State HouseTennessee House of Representatives District 9750%State HouseTennessee House of Representatives District 98—State HouseTennessee House of Representatives District 99—
A dash means only one party filed, so there was nothing to compare.
What you can do about it
Three things, none of which require experience
Make sure one street votes
Pick the block you already live on. Before each election, remind the people on it — by text, in person, however you already talk to them. That is the whole job.
Bring one person with you
Voting alone is a chore. Voting with a friend is a plan. One person who would not otherwise have gone is a real, countable result.
Chip in what a coffee costs
No committee has claimed this county yet, so contributions here fund building the tool — the data work, the maps, the hosting. Once a committee claims it, this becomes dues that go to them.
Turnout Visualization Pilot
Interactive turnout heatmap for Shelby County
Use official turnout baselines plus block-captain-reported enthusiasm to decide where canvassing, rides, text banking, and volunteer recruiting should go first.
Weighted target turnout
54.7%
Target outcome if the neighbors doing this close the most reachable gaps.
Reported enthusiasm average
6.9/10
Live-reported sentiment from the neighbors making sure their streets vote in the pilot neighborhoods.
Volunteer coverage
52/88
Current pledges and volunteer support toward the pilot goal.
Lower priorityHigher priority
Street-by-street reporting tool
Update reported enthusiasm and volunteer coverage
This prototype lets the neighbors making sure their streets vote update an enthusiasm score and volunteer count, then immediately see the heatmap adjust without waiting for a data refresh.
MEM-01
A. Johnson · Frayser
MEM-14
K. Harris · North Memphis
MEM-32
D. Carter · Orange Mound
MEM-44
R. White · Whitehaven
Where a knock on the door goes furthest
The neighborhoods with the most neighbors left to ask
- MEM-32
Gap: 16.6% · Enthusiasm: 8.1/10
- MEM-14
Gap: 14.7% · Enthusiasm: 7.2/10
- MEM-44
Gap: 14.4% · Enthusiasm: 5.8/10
- MEM-01
Gap: 13.3% · Enthusiasm: 6.4/10
For committee officers — how this page gets built ▾
This pilot is designed for Shelby County organizers who want to move from generic enthusiasm to neighborhood-level turnout targets, volunteer assignments, and concrete follow-up after each election.
What this page should show next
- Show last-election turnout next to a target turnout goal for each neighborhood cluster.
- Flag clusters where a modest increase in participation would produce meaningful vote gains.
- Route volunteers toward doors, phones, rides, and voter follow-up based on the biggest turnout gap.
What people here are doing about it
- Import Shelby County official results and voter registration reports into a local turnout table.
- Choose 10 to 20 Memphis neighborhood clusters for the first pilot cohort and assign a local organizer for each cluster.
- Publish a simple weekly scoreboard: baseline turnout, target turnout, volunteer contacts made, and ballots chased.
- Connect each cluster target back to committee pages, volunteer shifts, and official polling-location information.
Official public data sources
Where these numbers come from
- Shelby County past elections and official results
Primary source for election result exports and turnout baselines.
- Shelby County voter registration statistics and reports
Use with official results to calculate turnout rates rather than raw vote totals alone.
- Shelby County polling location and district lookup
Useful for mapping addresses to current districts and validating local context.
- Tennessee voter lookup
Official state tool for validating registration and polling-place information.
Source attribution
Data provenance
- Registration denominators: Tennessee Secretary of State June 2026 voter registration report, total registration by county.
- Election results: Tennessee Secretary of State, August 6, 2026 unofficial primary results aggregated by district, and the gubernatorial primary county breakdown aggregated by county.
- County turnout is computed by dividing 2026 primary votes by June 2026 registered-voter totals.
- District and county boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, January 1, 2025 vintage, as rendered in the thedems.org app.
- Per-county results for state and federal races: the Tennessee Secretary of State’s own county breakdown for each race, ingested race by race — candidate, party, votes and precincts completed, for every county that race appeared in.
- County and municipal offices and ballot measures: the county’s OWN election commission, which is the only place they are published — the state dashboard carries no county offices at all. Every county publishes in whatever format it chose, so these are read one format at a time: a county’s results feed where it has one, the report its vote-counting equipment prints where it does not, and a neighbour who types the numbers in and links the page they came from where no computer can read it. Where a county has not been ingested yet, this page says so plainly and points to how to help, rather than showing nothing or implying it held no county elections.
- When these numbers were counted: each county’s report carries its own printed date and time, and that is the one shown here — not when we fetched it. Counties keep counting after election night as provisional ballots are decided and mailed ballots are cured, and they republish at the same address when they do. So a figure can go up days later, and results stay unofficial until the county election commission certifies them.