Cades is a Republican stronghold. About 14% of voters here vote Democratic and 86% Republican.
About 60% of adults in Cades typically vote, near the U.S. average of about 62%. Among adults in Cades, ~8% vote Democratic, ~52% Republican, and ~40% don't vote. The map below shows estimated turnout by block group.
How Cades compares
Among cities within 25 miles, Cades leans more Republican than 67 of 73 neighbors.
Cades runs about 42 points more Republican than Tennessee as a whole.
Why Cades leans the way it does
This analysis examined 14,881 data points per city to find what predicts political lean and turnout. The items below are a few correlations that stood out for Cades, not a ranked or complete list of what matters most.
Areas with low college attainment vote Republican. About 6% of adults in Cades hold a bachelor's degree, about 16 points below the Tennessee average of 22%. Car-dependent areas vote Republican, and about 88% of residents in Cades drive to work alone, above 89% of cities.
Preventive-care access and voter turnout
Places with limited routine preventive-care access tend to turn out at a lower rate; Cades, TN sits in the bottom tenth nationally on this measure. Dental visits do not drive turnout; the rate reflects income, insurance, and healthcare access, which line up with who votes.
Why turnout in Cades looks the way it does
Areas with limited routine healthcare access turn out at lower rates. Cades is in the bottom quarter nationally for routine-care measures such as insurance coverage, preventive screenings, and dental visits. The dental-visit rate here is about 49%, about 7 points below the Tennessee average of 56%. Learn more about the findings and methodology on the political spectrum map.
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Sources and methodology
Precinct-level voting records used to fit the model come from Tennessee Secretary of State, Division of Elections, distributed by the Voting and Election Science Team. Demographic inputs come from the U.S. Census Bureau (ACS 5-year estimates and the 2020 Decennial Census). Health and environmental inputs come from the CDC (PLACES and the Environmental Justice Index). Land cover comes from the USGS and EPA. Election-day and lead-up weather come from PRISM 4km daily grids and the NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network. Mail-voting and election-administration patterns come from the MIT Election Lab's Survey of the Performance of American Elections. Block-group crime detail comes from CrimeGrade. Internet data and modeling support provided by ISPreports.org.
Modeling and analysis by the BestNeighborhood data science team. Full methodology and findings: political spectrum map.
Methodology reviewed by the BestNeighborhood data team. Last updated May 2026.