Randy Boyd (Tennessee)
Randy Boyd (Republican Party) ran for election for Governor of Tennessee. Boyd lost in the Republican primary on August 2, 2018.
Biography
Boyd is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, which he attended while working at his father's electric fence factory. In 1983, Boyd left his job to sell tornado detectors, then founded Southern Agricultural Cooperative, Inc., which sold agricultural products. In 1991, Boyd launched Radio Systems Corporation, a company which sells a reverse-engineered variant of the Invisible Fence, whose patent had expired the previous year. As of his 2018 run for governor, Boyd remained the owner of Radio Systems Corporation. In 2013, Boyd was selected by Gov. Bill Haslam (R) to serve as an education adviser. Boyd's gubernatorial campaign website touted his work on the Tennessee Promise program, a lottery-funded program which guarantees all participating high school graduates in the state community college tuition and a volunteer mentor. Boyd later held a volunteer role as the state's Economic and Community Development Commissioner.[1][2][3]
Elections
2018
See also: Tennessee gubernatorial election, 2018
General election
General election for Governor of Tennessee
The following candidates ran in the general election for Governor of Tennessee on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Bill Lee (R) | 59.6 | 1,336,106 |
 | Karl Dean (D) | 38.6 | 864,863 | |
| Sherry Clark (Independent) | 0.2 | 5,198 | ||
| Mark Wright (Independent) | 0.2 | 4,687 | ||
| Patrick Whitlock (Independent) | 0.2 | 3,631 | ||
| Yvonne Neubert (Independent) | 0.1 | 3,070 | ||
 | Heather Scott (Independent) | 0.1 | 2,969 | |
| Mark Brown (Independent) | 0.1 | 2,841 | ||
| Joe Wilmoth (Independent) | 0.1 | 2,444 | ||
| George Blackwell Smith IV (Independent) | 0.1 | 1,550 | ||
| Cory King (Independent) | 0.1 | 1,502 | ||
| Tracy Yaste Tisdale (Independent) | 0.1 | 1,396 | ||
| Justin Cornett (Independent) | 0.1 | 1,217 | ||
 | Chad Riden (Independent) | 0.0 | 1,096 | |
| Robert Sawyers Sr. (Independent) | 0.0 | 1,059 | ||
 | Vinnie Vineyard (Independent)  | 0.0 | 1,012 | |
 | Rick Tyler (Independent) | 0.0 | 981 | |
 | Gabriel Fancher (Independent) | 0.0 | 869 | |
| Sean Fleming (Independent) | 0.0 | 814 | ||
| Alfred Rapoza (Independent) | 0.0 | 800 | ||
| Jessie McDonald (Independent) | 0.0 | 755 | ||
| Toney Mitchell (Independent) | 0.0 | 739 | ||
| Mike Toews (Independent) | 0.0 | 726 | ||
| Matthew Koch (Independent) | 0.0 | 652 | ||
| Jeremy Allen Stephenson (Independent) | 0.0 | 613 | ||
| Tommy McAnally (Independent) | 0.0 | 609 | ||
| Jaron Weidner (Independent) | 0.0 | 588 | ||
| William Helmstetter (Independent) | 0.0 | 496 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 11 | ||
| Total votes: 2,243,294 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Governor of Tennessee
Karl Dean defeated Craig Fitzhugh and Mezianne Vale Payne in the Democratic primary for Governor of Tennessee on August 2, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Karl Dean | 75.1 | 279,324 |
 | Craig Fitzhugh | 19.4 | 72,263 | |
 | Mezianne Vale Payne | 5.4 | 20,253 | |
| Total votes: 371,840 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Governor of Tennessee
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for Governor of Tennessee on August 2, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Bill Lee | 36.7 | 289,699 |
 | Randy Boyd | 24.3 | 191,940 | |
 | Diane Black | 23.0 | 181,719 | |
 | Beth Harwell | 15.3 | 120,910 | |
 | Kay White | 0.4 | 3,181 | |
| Basil Marceaux | 0.2 | 1,270 | ||
| Total votes: 788,719 | |||
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