M. LaTroy Williams

M. LaTroy Williams (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Tennessee's 9th Congressional District. He lost in the Democratic primary on August 1, 2024.

Elections

2024

Tennessee's 9th Congressional District election, 2024 (August 1 Democratic primary)

Tennessee's 9th Congressional District election, 2024 (August 1 Republican primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Incumbent Steve Cohen defeated Charlotte Bergmann, Wendell Wells, and Dennis Clark in the general election for U.S. House Tennessee District 9 on November 5, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Steve Cohen (D)	71.3	159,522
	Charlotte Bergmann (R)	25.7	57,411
	Wendell Wells (Independent)	1.7	3,708
	Dennis Clark (Independent)	1.4	3,062

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 223,703
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Henry Reaves (Independent)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Incumbent Steve Cohen defeated Corey Strong, M. LaTroy Williams, and Kasandra Smith in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9 on August 1, 2024.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Steve Cohen	73.7	30,042
	Corey Strong	17.8	7,258
	M. LaTroy Williams	4.7	1,936
	Kasandra Smith	3.7	1,522

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 40,758
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Charlotte Bergmann advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9 on August 1, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Charlotte Bergmann	100.0	10,148

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 10,148
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Antwane Bohanon (R)

Endorsements

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2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Incumbent Steve Cohen defeated Charlotte Bergmann, George Flinn Jr., Dennis Clark, and Paul Cook in the general election for U.S. House Tennessee District 9 on November 8, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Steve Cohen (D)	70.0	93,800
	Charlotte Bergmann (R)	26.2	35,123
	George Flinn Jr. (Independent)	2.5	3,349
	Dennis Clark (Independent)	0.9	1,160
	Paul Cook (Independent)	0.4	485
	Other/Write-in votes	0.0	1

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 133,918
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Samuel Furrh (Independence Party)
Mark Crain (Independent)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Incumbent Steve Cohen defeated M. LaTroy Williams in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9 on August 4, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Steve Cohen	88.0	62,055
	M. LaTroy Williams	12.0	8,449

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 70,504
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Ollie Nelson (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Charlotte Bergmann defeated Brown Dudley and Leo AwGoWhat in the Republican primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9 on August 4, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Charlotte Bergmann	51.5	10,380
	Submit photo	Brown Dudley	43.5	8,760
	Submit photo	Leo AwGoWhat	5.0	1,000

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 20,140
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2020

State Senate race

General election

General election for Tennessee State Senate District 30

Incumbent Sara Kyle won election in the general election for Tennessee State Senate District 30 on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Sara Kyle (D)	100.0	43,895

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 43,895
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Tennessee State Senate District 30

Incumbent Sara Kyle defeated M. LaTroy Williams in the Democratic primary for Tennessee State Senate District 30 on August 6, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Sara Kyle	70.5	10,241
	M. LaTroy Williams	29.5	4,292

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 14,533
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Congressional race

Tennessee's 9th Congressional District election, 2020 (August 6 Democratic primary)

Tennessee's 9th Congressional District election, 2020 (August 6 Republican primary)

General election

General election for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Incumbent Steve Cohen defeated Charlotte Bergmann, Dennis Clark, Bobby Lyons, and Charles Shappley in the general election for U.S. House Tennessee District 9 on November 3, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Steve Cohen (D)	77.4	187,905
		Charlotte Bergmann (R)	20.1	48,818
		Dennis Clark (Independent)	1.6	3,962
		Bobby Lyons (Independent)	0.9	2,192
	Submit photo	Charles Shappley (Independent) (Write-in)	0.0	3

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 242,880
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Incumbent Steve Cohen defeated Corey Strong and Leo AwGoWhat in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9 on August 6, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Steve Cohen	84.0	56,312
		Corey Strong	14.8	9,944
	Submit photo	Leo AwGoWhat	1.1	768

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 67,024
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

M. LaTroy Williams (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Charlotte Bergmann advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9 on August 6, 2020.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Charlotte Bergmann	100.0	12,160

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 12,160
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Charles Shappley (R)

2019

General election

General election for Memphis City Council Super District 8 Position 1

The following candidates ran in the general election for Memphis City Council Super District 8 Position 1 on October 3, 2019.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		JB Smiley Jr. (Nonpartisan)	34.3	14,478
	Submit photo	Gerre Curie (Nonpartisan)	26.9	11,327
	Submit photo	Darrick Harris (Nonpartisan)	12.5	5,250
		M. LaTroy Williams (Nonpartisan)	9.8	4,125
	Submit photo	Nicole Cleaborn (Nonpartisan)	9.2	3,865
	Submit photo	Pearl Walker (Nonpartisan)	7.1	2,999
		Other/Write-in votes	0.3	113

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 42,157
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2018

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General election

General election for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Incumbent Steve Cohen defeated Charlotte Bergmann and Leo AwGoWhat in the general election for U.S. House Tennessee District 9 on November 6, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Steve Cohen (D)	80.0	145,139
		Charlotte Bergmann (R)	19.2	34,901
	Submit photo	Leo AwGoWhat (Independent)	0.8	1,436

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 181,476
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Nicholas Mantanona (Independent)

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Incumbent Steve Cohen defeated Kasandra Smith and Isaac Richmond in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9 on August 2, 2018.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Steve Cohen	90.9	67,433
	Kasandra Smith	6.4	4,734
	Isaac Richmond	2.7	1,976

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 74,143
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M. LaTroy Williams (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Charlotte Bergmann advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9 on August 2, 2018.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Charlotte Bergmann	100.0	17,971

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 17,971
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2016

See also: Tennessee's 9th Congressional District election, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Democratic. Incumbent Steve Cohen defeated Wayne Alberson (R) and Paul Cook (I) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Cohen defeated Larry Crim, Justin Ford, and M. LaTroy Williams in the Democratic primary on August 4, 2016.^[1]^[2]^[3]

**U.S. House, Tennessee District 9 General Election, 2016**
Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Democratic	Steve Cohen Incumbent	78.7%	171,631
	Republican	Wayne Alberson	18.9%	41,123
	Independent	Paul Cook	2.4%	5,203
Total Votes				217,957
Source: Tennessee Secretary of State

**U.S. House, Tennessee District 9 Democratic Primary, 2016**
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Steve Cohen Incumbent	85.5%	35,645
Justin Ford	10%	4,165
LaTroy Williams	3.5%	1,452
Larry Crim	1%	406
Total Votes		41,668
Source: Tennessee Secretary of State

2015

See also: Memphis, Tennessee municipal elections, 2015

The city of Memphis, Tennessee, held elections for mayor and city council on October 8, 2015. Because this race could not move to a runoff, the candidate with the most votes was declared the winner, regardless of whether he or she won a majority.^[4] The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was July 17, 2015.^[5] Incumbent A. C. Wharton faced Jim Strickland, Harold B. Collins, Leo Awgowhat, Anderson Fullilove, Jr., Robert Hodges, David Phillip Walker, Jr., Sharon A. Webb, M. Latroy Williams and Mike Williams in the general election on October 8, 2015.^[6] Strickland won the mayoral election.

Memphis Mayor General Election, 2015
Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Jim Strickland	41.3%	42,020
A. C. Wharton Incumbent	22.1%	22,490
Harold B. Collins	18.5%	18,767
Mike Williams	16.1%	16,388
Sharon A. Webb	0.6%	610
M. Latroy Williams	0.4%	413
Anderson Fullilove, Jr.	0.4%	369
Robert Hodges	0.2%	240
David Phillip Walker, Jr.	0.2%	171
Leo Awgowhat	0.1%	119
Write-in votes	0.1%	92
Total Votes		100,275
Source: Shelby County Election Commission, "Memphis Election 2015 October," accessed October 8, 2015

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

M. LaTroy Williams did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign website

Williams' campaign website stated the following:

“

M. LaTroy A-Williams - Let's Talk!
M. LaTroy Alexandria-Williams on Memphis’ Economy and His Plans:
1. Memphis’ Decline and Potential:

Memphis was once the 6th largest city in the U.S., now around 14th to 18th.
Believes Memphis has potential to be 3rd or 4th largest due to its central location.

2. Economic Development Plans:

1. Mud Island International Trade Center:

Create 80,000 new jobs paying $35 to $350 per hour.
Attract global businesses to Memphis.

2. President Island Green Jobs Operation:

Inspired by Obama’s $4 trillion green jobs initiative.
Focus on energy, wind, and other green technologies.
Potential for jobs paying $50 to $500 per hour.

3. Transit System Development:

Sees potential for growth and job creation.

3. Challenges to Growth:

Lack of sophistication in local leadership.
Resistance from “good old boy network” fearing competition.
Racial fears and economic disparities.

4. Proposed Solutions:

Round table discussions with diverse participants from Memphis and beyond.
Encourage competition among shipping companies (FedEx, DHL, UPS, USPS).
Strong congressional leadership representing Memphis’ interests.

5. Criticism of Current Leadership:

Claims Memphis has been on a “trickle-down theory” for 18 years.
Argues for a “trickle-up theory” approach.
Criticizes the current congressman for ineffective representation.

6. Call for New Leadership:

Emphasizes need for representatives who understand and reflect the community.
Argues against sending unprepared individuals to face tough business interests.
Positions himself as the “tiger” needed to deal with “lions” controlling the city and state. ^[7]

”

—M. LaTroy Williams' campaign website (2024)^[8]

2022

M. LaTroy Williams did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.

2020

State Senate

M. LaTroy Williams did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

U.S. Congress

M. LaTroy Williams did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

2019

M. LaTroy Williams did not complete Ballotpedia's 2019 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign finance summary

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M. LaTroy Williams campaign contribution history
Year	Office	Status	Contributions	Expenditures
2024*	U.S. House Tennessee District 9	Lost primary	$0	N/A**
2022	U.S. House Tennessee District 9	Lost primary	$0	N/A**
2020	President of the United States	Lost convention	$0	N/A**
Grand total			$0	N/A**
Sources: OpenSecrets, Federal Elections Commission *This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

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Footnotes

↑ Tennessee Secretary of State, "Candidate Petitions Filed as of April 7, 2016 Noon Qualifying Deadline," accessed April 8, 2016
↑ Politico, "Tennessee House Primaries Results," August 4, 2016
↑ CNN, "Election Results," accessed November 8, 2016
↑ Memphis Flyer, "Majority Rules," March 15, 2007
↑ Shelby County Election Commission, "Election Calendar 2015," accessed December 18, 2014
↑ Shelby County Election Commission, "Official candidate list," accessed July 27, 2015
↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
↑ M. LaTroy Williams' campaign website, “Meet Latroy,” accessed July 22, 2024

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Tennessee's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Marsha Blackburn (R)

Bill Hagerty (R)

Representatives

District 1

Diana Harshbarger (R)

District 2

Tim Burchett (R)

District 3

Charles Fleischmann (R)

District 4

Scott DesJarlais (R)

District 5

Andy Ogles (R)

District 6

John Rose (R)

District 7

Vacant

District 8

David Kustoff (R)

District 9

Steve Cohen (D)

Republican Party (9)

Democratic Party (1)

Vacancies (1)

[list-1] Tennessee Secretary of State, "Candidate Petitions Filed as of April 7, 2016 Noon Qualifying Deadline," accessed April 8, 2016

[primaryresults16-2] Politico, "Tennessee House Primaries Results," August 4, 2016

[3] CNN, "Election Results," accessed November 8, 2016

[4] Memphis Flyer, "Majority Rules," March 15, 2007

[5] Shelby County Election Commission, "Election Calendar 2015," accessed December 18, 2014

[6] Shelby County Election Commission, "Official candidate list," accessed July 27, 2015

[quotedisclaimer-7] Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.

[8] M. LaTroy Williams' campaign website, “Meet Latroy,” accessed July 22, 2024

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M. LaTroy Williams

Elections

2024

General election

General election for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Endorsements

2022

General election

General election for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

2020

State Senate race

General election

General election for Tennessee State Senate District 30

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Tennessee State Senate District 30

Congressional race

General election

General election for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

2019

General election

General election for Memphis City Council Super District 8 Position 1

2018

General election

General election for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Tennessee District 9

2016

2015

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

Campaign website

2022

2020

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2019

Campaign finance summary

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