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Elections in Tennessee |
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Tennessee state elections in 2020 were held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. Primary elections for the United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, Tennessee Senate, and Tennessee House of Representatives, as well as various judicial retention elections, were held on August 6, 2020.
In 2020, Tennessee was a stronghold for the Republican Party, and was considered a reliable "red state." Tennessee had 11 electoral votes in the Electoral College at the time. In the general election, Incumbent United States President Donald Trump won Tennessee with 60.66% of the vote.
The presidential primaries were held on March 3, 2020. Donald Trump won the Republican primary in a landslide victory over former congressman Joe Walsh of Illinois and former governor Bill Weld of Massachusetts. Vice President Joe Biden garnered the Democratic nomination, beating out Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Republican | Donald Trump Mike Pence | 1,852,475 | 60.66 | –0.06 | |
Democratic | Joe Biden Kamala Harris | 1,143,711 | 37.45 | +2.73 | |
Independent [lower-alpha 1] | Jo Jorgensen Spike Cohen | 29,877 | 0.98 | –1.83 | |
Independent | Kanye West Michelle Tidball | 10,279 | 0.34 | N/A | |
Independent [lower-alpha 2] | Don Blankenship William Mohr | 5,365 | 0.18 | +0.12 | |
Independent [lower-alpha 3] | Howie Hawkins Angela Walker | 4,545 | 0.15 | –0.49 | |
Independent [lower-alpha 4] | Alyson Kennedy Malcolm Jarrett | 2,576 | 0.08 | –0.04 | |
Independent [lower-alpha 5] | Gloria La Riva Sunil Freeman | 2,301 | 0.08% | N/A | |
Independent [lower-alpha 6] | Rocky De La Fuente Darcy Richardson | 1,860 | 0.06 | –0.10 | |
American Solidarity | Brian T. Carroll (write-in) Amar Patel (write-in) | 762 | 0.02 | N/A | |
Independent | Jade Simmons (write-in) Claudeliah Roze (write-in) | 68 | 0.00 | N/A | |
Independent | Tom Hoefling (write-in) Andy Prior (write-in) | 31 | 0.00% | N/A | |
Independent | R19 Boddie (write-in) Eric Stoneham (write-in) | 1 | 0.00% | N/A | |
Independent | Kasey Wells (write-in) Rachel Wells (write-in) | 0 | 0.00% | N/A | |
Total votes | 3,053,851 | 100.00% | |||
Republican win |
March 3, 2020 primary results
Candidate | Votes | % | Delegates [3] |
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Joe Biden | 215,390 | 41.72 | 36 [lower-alpha 7] |
Bernie Sanders | 129,168 | 25.02 | 22 [lower-alpha 8] |
Michael Bloomberg | 79,789 | 15.46 | 5 [lower-alpha 9] |
Elizabeth Warren | 53,732 | 10.41 | 1 |
Pete Buttigieg (withdrawn) [lower-alpha 10] | 17,102 | 3.31 | |
Amy Klobuchar (withdrawn) [lower-alpha 10] | 10,671 | 2.07 | |
Tulsi Gabbard | 2,278 | 0.44 | |
Tom Steyer (withdrawn) [lower-alpha 10] | 1,932 | 0.37 | |
Michael Bennet (withdrawn) | 1,650 | 0.32 | |
Andrew Yang (withdrawn) | 1,097 | 0.21 | |
Cory Booker (withdrawn) | 953 | 0.18 | |
Marianne Williamson (withdrawn) | 498 | 0.10 | |
John Delaney (withdrawn) | 378 | 0.07 | |
Julian Castro (withdrawn) | 239 | 0.05 | |
Deval Patrick (withdrawn) | 182 | 0.04 | |
Uncommitted | 1,191 | 0.23 | |
Total | 516,250 | 100% | 64 |
Candidate | Votes | % | Estimated delegates |
---|---|---|---|
Donald Trump | 384,266 | 96.47 | 58 |
Joe Walsh (withdrawn) | 4,178 | 1.05 | 0 |
Bill Weld | 3,922 | 0.98 | 0 |
Uncommitted | 5,948 | 1.49 | 0 |
Total | 398,314 | 100% | 58 |
Incumbent Republican Senator Lamar Alexander announced that he would not run for re-election on December 17, 2018. [5] Environmentalist, activist and Democratic nominee Marquita Bradshaw, the first black woman to win a major political party nomination in any statewide race in Tennessee, [6] was defeated by Republican nominee Bill Hagerty, former United States Ambassador to Japan and former Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. [7]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Republican | Bill Hagerty | 1,840,926 | 62.20% | +0.33% | |
Democratic | Marquita Bradshaw | 1,040,691 | 35.16% | +3.29% | |
Independent | Elizabeth McLeod | 16,652 | 0.56% | N/A | |
Independent | Yomi Faparusi | 10,727 | 0.36% | N/A | |
Independent | Stephen Hooper | 9,609 | 0.32% | N/A | |
Independent | Kacey Morgan (withdrawn) | 9,598 | 0.32% | N/A | |
Independent | Ronnie Henley | 8,478 | 0.30% | N/A | |
Independent | Aaron James | 7,203 | 0.29% | N/A | |
Independent | Eric William Stansberry | 6,781 | 0.23% | N/A | |
Independent | Dean Hill | 4,872 | 0.16% | N/A | |
Independent | Jeffrey Grunau | 4,160 | 0.14% | N/A | |
Write-in | 64 | 0.00% | ±0.00% | ||
Total votes | 2,959,761 | 100.0% | |||
Republican hold | |||||
August 6, 2020 primary results
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Democratic | Marquita Bradshaw | 117,962 | 35.51% | |
Democratic | Robin Kimbrough Hayes | 88,492 | 26.64% | |
Democratic | James Mackler | 78,966 | 23.77% | |
Democratic | Gary G. Davis | 30,758 | 9.26% | |
Democratic | Mark Pickrell | 16,045 | 4.83% | |
Total votes | 332,223 | 100.00% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Bill Hagerty | 331,267 | 50.75% | |
Republican | Manny Sethi | 257,223 | 39.41% | |
Republican | George Flinn, Jr. | 22,454 | 3.44% | |
Republican | Jon Henry | 8,104 | 1.24% | |
Republican | Natisha Brooks | 8,072 | 1.24% | |
Republican | Byron Bush | 5,420 | 0.83% | |
Republican | Clifford Adkins | 5,316 | 0.81% | |
Republican | Terry Dicus | 2,279 | 0.35% | |
Republican | Tom Emerson, Jr. | 2,252 | 0.35% | |
Republican | David Schuster | 2,045 | 0.31% | |
Republican | John Osborne | 1,877 | 0.29% | |
Republican | Roy Dale Cope | 1,791 | 0.27% | |
Republican | Kent Morrell | 1,769 | 0.27% | |
Republican | Aaron Pettigrew | 1,622 | 0.25% | |
Republican | Glen Neal, Jr. | 1,233 | 0.19% | |
Total votes | 652,724 | 100.00% |
Tennessee elected nine U.S. representatives, each representing one of Tennessee's nine congressional districts.
District | Republican | Democratic | Others | Total | Result | ||||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | ||
District 1 | 228,181 | 74.71% | 68,617 | 22.47% | 8,625 | 2.82% | 305,423 | 100.0% | Republican hold |
District 2 | 238,907 | 67.64% | 109,684 | 31.06% | 4,606 | 1.30% | 353,197 | 100.0% | Republican hold |
District 3 | 215,571 | 67.30% | 97,687 | 30.50% | 7,041 | 2.20% | 320,299 | 100.0% | Republican hold |
District 4 | 223,802 | 66.67% | 111,908 | 33.33% | 0 | 0.00% | 335,710 | 100.0% | Republican hold |
District 5 | 0 | 0.00% | 252,155 | 99.99% | 14 | 0.01% | 252,169 | 100.0% | Democratic hold |
District 6 | 257,572 | 73.68% | 83,852 | 23.99% | 8,154 | 2.33% | 349,578 | 100.0% | Republican hold |
District 7 | 245,188 | 69.93% | 95,839 | 27.33% | 9,608 | 2.74% | 350,635 | 100.0% | Republican hold |
District 8 | 227,216 | 68.47% | 97,890 | 29.50% | 6,747 | 2.03% | 331,853 | 100.0% | Republican hold |
District 9 | 48,818 | 20.10% | 187,905 | 77.37% | 6,157 | 2.53% | 242,880 | 100.0% | Democratic hold |
Total | 1,685,255 | 59.30% | 1,105,537 | 38.90% | 50,952 | 1.79% | 2,841,744 | 100.0% |
Results by senate districts
Winners: Republican hold Democratic hold Democratic gain No election |
Elections for 16 of the 33 seats in Tennessee's State Senate were held on November 3, 2020. There was 1 open seat, and 15 incumbents that ran for re-election. [11]
Party | Candidates | Votes | Seats | ||||||
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No. | % | Before | Up | Won | After | +/– | |||
Republican | 15 | 939,727 | 71.41 | 28 | 15 | 14 | 27 | ![]() | |
Democratic | 10 | 321,494 | 24.43 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 6 | ![]() | |
Independent | 3 | 52,928 | 4.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() | |
Write-in | 2 | 1,777 | 0.14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ![]() | |
Total | 1,315,926 | 100 | 33 | 16 | 16 | 33 | ![]() | ||
Source: |
Two races were decided by a margin of under 10%:
District | Winner | Margin |
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District 10 | Republican | 6.32% |
District 20 | Democratic (gain) | 3.52% |
Results by State House districts
Winners: Republican hold Democratic hold Democratic gain |
The election of all 99 seats in the Tennessee House of Representatives occurred on November 3, 2020.
The Democratic Party retook the 90th district, where the incumbent John DeBerry had defected to become an independent. The Republican Party maintained their supermajority in the state house.
Party | Candidates | Votes | Seats | ||||||
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No. | % | No. | +/– | ||||||
Republican | 79 | 1,740,193 | 67.24 | 73 | ![]() | ||||
Democratic | 58 (+1 write-in) | 800,069 | 30.92 | 26 | ![]() | ||||
Independent | 8 | 46,611 | 1.80 | 0 | ![]() | ||||
Write-in | 974 | 0.04 | 0 | ![]() | |||||
Total | 2,587,847 | 100.00 | 99 | ![]() | |||||
Source: |
Seven races were decided by a margin of under 10%:
District | Winner | Margin |
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District 97 | Republican | 1.6% |
District 13 | Democratic | 5.8% |
District 49 | Republican | 7.8% |
District 83 | Republican | 8.0% |
District 56 | Democratic | 8.4% |
District 18 | Republican | 9.8% |
District 67 | Democratic | 9.8% |
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