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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.
Presidential election
[edit]President of the United States
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Trump
- 50–60%
- 60–70%
- 70–80%
- 80–90%
Biden
- 50–60%
- 60–70%
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.
Results
[edit]| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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[a] | Jo Jorgensen Spike Cohen |
29,877 | 0.98 | –1.83 | |
| Independent | Kanye West Michelle Tidball |
10,279 | 0.34 | N/A | |
| Independent[b] | Don Blankenship William Mohr |
5,365 | 0.18 | +0.12 | |
| Independent[c] | Howie Hawkins Angela Walker |
4,545 | 0.15 | –0.49 | |
| Independent[d] | Alyson Kennedy Malcolm Jarrett |
2,576 | 0.08 | –0.04 | |
| Independent[e] | Gloria La Riva Sunil Freeman |
2,301 | 0.08% | N/A | |
| Independent[f] | 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
Biden
- 30–40%40–50%
- 50–60%
- 60–70%
Sanders
- 30–40%
| Candidate | Votes | % | Delegates[3] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joe Biden | 215,390 | 41.72 | 36[g] |
| Bernie Sanders | 129,168 | 25.02 | 22[h] |
| Michael Bloomberg | 79,789 | 15.46 | 5[i] |
| Elizabeth Warren | 53,732 | 10.41 | 1 |
| Pete Buttigieg (withdrawn)[j] | 17,102 | 3.31 | |
| Amy Klobuchar (withdrawn)[j] | 10,671 | 2.07 | |
| Tulsi Gabbard | 2,278 | 0.44 | |
| Tom Steyer (withdrawn)[j] | 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 |
Trump
- >90%
| 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 |
United States Congress
[edit]Senate
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Hagerty
- 80–90%
- 70–80%
- 60–70%
- 50–60%
Bradshaw
- 60–70%
- 50–60%
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]
Results
[edit]| 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
Bradshaw
- Bradshaw—60–70%
- Bradshaw—50–60%
- Bradshaw—40–50%
- Bradshaw—<40%
Mackler/Davis tie
- Mackler/Davis tie—<40%
Kimbrough
- Kimbrough—<40%
Mackler
- Mackler—<40%
- Mackler—<40–50%
Davis
- Davis—<40%
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | ||
Hagerty
- Hagerty—70–80%
- Hagerty—60–70%
- Hagerty—50–60%
- Hagerty—40–50%
- Hagerty—<40%
Sethi
- Sethi—40–50%
- Sethi—50–60%
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | ||
House of Representatives
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Republican
- 70–80%
- 60–70%
Democratic
- >90%
- 70–80%
Tennessee elected nine U.S. representatives, each representing one of Tennessee's nine congressional districts.
Results
[edit]| 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% | |
State legislature
[edit]State senate
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Results by senate districts
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Winners: Republican hold
Democratic hold
Democratic gain
No election
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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 |  1
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| Democratic | 10 | 321,494 | 24.43 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 6 |  1
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| Independent | 3 | 52,928 | 4.02 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 
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| Write-in | 2 | 1,777 | 0.14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Total | 1,315,926 | 100 | 33 | 16 | 16 | 33 |
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| Source: [1] | |||||||||
Close races
[edit]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% |
State House of Representatives
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Results by State House districts
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Winners: Republican hold
Democratic hold
Democratic gain
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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 |
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| Democratic | 58 (+1 write-in) | 800,069 | 30.92 | 26 | 1
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| Independent | 8 | 46,611 | 1.80 | 0 | 1
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| Write-in | 974 | 0.04 | 0 |
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| Total | 2,587,847 | 100.00 | 99 |
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| Source: [2] | |||||||||
Close races
[edit]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% |
See also
[edit]- Elections in Tennessee
- Political party strength in Tennessee
- Tennessee Democratic Party
- Tennessee Republican Party
- Government of Tennessee
- 2020 United States elections
Notes
[edit]- ^ Jorgensen and Cohen were nominated by the Libertarian Party of Tennessee but placed on the ballot as independents because the party did not have ballot access.
- ^ Blankenship and Mohr were nominated by the Constitution Party of Tennessee but placed on the ballot as independents because the party did not have ballot access.
- ^ Hawkins and Walker were nominated by the Green Party of Tennessee but placed on the ballot as independents because the party did not have ballot access.
- ^ Kennedy and Jarrett were nominated by the Socialist Workers Party but placed on the ballot as independents because the party did not have ballot access.
- ^ La Riva and Freeman were nominated by the Party for Socialism and Liberation but placed on the ballot as independents because the party did not have ballot access.
- ^ De La Fuente and Richardson were nominated by the Alliance Party but placed on the ballot as independents because the party did not have ballot access.
- ^ 33 delegates, if Bloomberg's statewide delegates would have been calculated.
- ^ 20 delegates, if Bloomberg's statewide delegates would have been calculated.
- ^ 10 delegates, if Bloomberg's statewide delegates would have been calculated.
- ^ a b c Candidate withdrew shortly before the primary, after early voting started.
References
[edit]- ^ State of Tennessee General Election Results, November 3, 2020, Results By Office (PDF) (Report). Secretary of State of Tennessee. December 2, 2020. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
- ^ "March 3, 2020 Democratic Presidential Preference Primary" (PDF). Tennessee Secretary of State. Retrieved April 3, 2020.
- ^ "2020 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions: Tennessee Democrat". The Green Papers. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
- ^ "March 3, 2020 Republican Presidential Preference Primary" (PDF). Tennessee Secretary of State. Retrieved April 3, 2020.
- ^ Everett, Burgess [@burgessev] (December 17, 2018). "HOLY COW Lamar Alexander: "I will not be a candidate for re-election to the United States Senate in 2020"" (Tweet). Retrieved December 17, 2018 – via Twitter.
- ^ Plazas, David. "Marquita Bradshaw could make history in Tennessee Senate race, but the fight is uphill all the way | Plazas". The Tennessean. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
- ^ "U.S. Ambassador Bill Hagerty to run for U.S. Senate, says his boss, President Trump, in endorsement tweet". timesfreepress.com. July 12, 2019. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
- ^ State of Tennessee General Election Results, November 3, 2020, Results By Office (PDF) (Report). Secretary of State of Tennessee. December 2, 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 2, 2020. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
- ^ "State of Tennessee – August 6, 2020 Democratic Primary" (PDF). Tennessee Secretary of State. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 26, 2020. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
- ^ "State of Tennessee – August 6, 2020 Republican Primary" (PDF). Tennessee Secretary of State. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 16, 2020. Retrieved September 12, 2020.
- ^ "Tennessee State Senate elections, 2020". Ballotpedia. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
External links
[edit]- Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association, "Tennessee", Voting & Elections Toolkits
- "Tennessee: Election Tools, Deadlines, Dates, Rules, and Links", Vote.org, Oakland, CA
- "League of Women Voters of Tennessee". (state affiliate of the U.S. League of Women Voters)
- Tennessee at Ballotpedia
- "Election Guides: Tennessee", Spreadthevote.org, archived from the original on October 4, 2020, retrieved October 7, 2020. (Guidance to help voters get to the polls; addresses transport, childcare, work, and information challenges)
- "State Elections Legislation Database", Ncsl.org, Washington, D.C.: National Conference of State Legislatures,
State legislation related to the administration of elections introduced in 2011 through this year, 2020