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Last updated: Oct. 3, 2024
Thousands of general elections are taking place across the United States on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include offices at the federal, state, and local levels. This is one of 50 pages in which Ballotpedia previews the elections happening in each state as part of the Daily Brew’s 50 states in 25 days series.
This page provides an overview of all elections happening in Tennessee within our coverage scope on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include office for one U.S Senator, nine U.S. Representatives, 99 state Representatives, and 16 state Senators. On this page, you will also find information regarding:
- How to vote in Tennessee
- The elected offices that Tennessee voters can expect to see on their ballots
- The races in Tennessee that Ballotpedia is covering as battlegrounds
- The ballot measures that voters in Tennessee will decide on
- Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool
- The partisan balance of Tennessee's congressional delegation and state government
- Past presidential election results in Tennessee
- The competitiveness of legislative elections in Tennessee
- The candidates who are on the ballot in Tennessee
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Tennessee
What's on the ballot?
2024 elections
- See also: Tennessee elections, 2024
Tennessee voters will elect one U.S. Senator and nine U.S. Representatives.
All 99 seats in the state House are up for election. Sixteen of the 33 seats in the state Senate are up for a regularly scheduled election. There are seven open seats in the state House and one open seat in the state Senate.
Voters in Davidson County will decide one local ballot measure, and voters in Shelby County will decide six local ballot measures. You can review the coverage scope of the local ballot measures project here.
Below is a list of Tennessee elections covered by Ballotpedia in 2024. Click the links to learn more about each type:
| Tennessee elections, 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Office | Elections? | More information |
| U.S. Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| U.S. House | ✓ | Click here |
| Congress special election | — | — |
| Governor | — | — |
| Other state executive | — | — |
| State Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| State House | ✓ | Click here |
| Special state legislative | — | — |
| State Supreme Court | ✓ | Click here |
| Intermediate appellate courts | ✓ | Click here |
| School boards | ✓ | Click here |
| Municipal government | ✓ | Click here |
| Recalls | — | — |
| Ballot measures | — | — |
| Local ballot measures | ✓ | Click here |
Legend: ✓ election(s) / — no elections
Subject to Ballotpedia's scope
Your ballot
- See also: Sample Ballot Lookup
Noteworthy elections
As of Oct. 9, 2024, Ballotpedia has not identified general election battleground races in Tennessee. Battlegrounds are the races that we expect to have a meaningful effect on the balance of power in governments or to be particularly competitive or compelling. Ballotpedia identified the Republican primaries in Tennessee's state House, state Senate, and 5th Congressional District as battleground races.
Ballot measures
- See also: Tennessee 2024 ballot measures
For 2024, measures that were certified for the ballot are available here, and measures that failed to make the ballot are available here.
Eleven ballot measures were on the ballot in Tennessee from 1995 to 2018. Voters approved eleven measures and rejected zero.
State analysis
Partisan balance
Republicans represent eight of the state's U.S. House districts, and a Democrat represents one. In the U.S. House, Republicans have a 220-212 majority with three vacancies.
Tennessee has two Republican U.S. Senators—Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty. Democrats have a majority in the U.S. Senate. There are 47 Democrats, 49 Republicans, and four independents. Three independents caucus with the Democratic Party, and one other counts towards the Democratic majority for committee purposes.
Republicans have a 27-6 majority in the state Senate and a 75-24 majority in the state House. Republicans have had a majority in the state Senate since 2004 and a majority in the state House since 2008.
Because the governor is a Republican, Tennessee is one of 23 states with a Republican trifecta. It has held this status since 2011, when Republicans gained control of the governor's office. Tennessee's attorney general and secretary of state are also Republicans. This makes Tennessee one of 25 states with a Republican triplex.
Past presidential election results in Tennessee
- See also: Presidential election in Tennessee, 2024
How a state's counties vote in a presidential election and the size of those counties can provide additional insights into election outcomes at other levels of government including statewide and congressional races. Below, four categories are used to describe each county's voting pattern over the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections: Solid, Trending, Battleground, and New. Click [show] on the table below for examples:
| County-level voting pattern categories | |||||||
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| Democratic | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Democratic | D | D | D | ||||
| Trending Democratic | R | D | D | ||||
| Battleground Democratic | D | R | D | ||||
| New Democratic | R | R | D | ||||
| Republican | |||||||
| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Republican | R | R | R | ||||
| Trending Republican | D | R | R | ||||
| Battleground Republican | R | D | R | ||||
| New Republican | D | D | R | ||||
Following the 2020 presidential election, 75.6% of Tennesseans lived in one of the state's 91 Solid Republican counties, which voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every election from 2012 to 2020, and 24.1% lived in one of three Solid Democratic counties: Davidson, Haywood, and Shelby. Overall, Tennessee was Solid Republican, having voted for Mitt Romney (R) in 2012, Donald Trump (R) in 2016, and Donald Trump (R) in 2020. Use the table below to view the total number of each type of county in Tennessee following the 2020 election as well as the overall percentage of the state population located in each county type.
| Tennessee county-level statistics, 2020 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solid Republican | 91 | 75.6% | |||||
| Solid Democratic | 3 | 24.1% | |||||
| Trending Republican | 1 | 0.4% | |||||
| Total voted Democratic | 3 | 24.1% | |||||
| Total voted Republican | 92 | 75.9% | |||||
State legislative competitiveness
According to Ballotpedia's annual state legislative competitiveness report, Tennessee had a Competitiveness Index of 31.6, ranking it 26th of the 44 states that held elections.
- Eight of the 115 seats up for election were open (7%)
- 28 of the 107 incumbents who ran for re-election faced contested primaries (26%)
- 71 of the 115 seats up for election were contested by both major parties (62%)
2010-2024
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| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Tennessee, 2010-2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | Rank | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | 8.6% | 11.3% | 57.8% | 25.9 | 37 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | 18.3% | 35.7% | 50.4% | 34.8 | 25 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | 10.3% | 24.0% | 37.9% | 24.1 | 33 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | 5.2% | 31.2% | 48.7% | 28.4 | 29 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 23.3% | 27.0% | 73.3% | 41.2 | 13 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | 5.2% | 24.8% | 40.0% | 23.3 | 40 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 14.7% | 15.2% | 37.9% | 22.6 | 43 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 7.0% | 26.2% | 61.7% | 31.6 | 26 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
In 2024
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| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Tennessee, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chamber | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | ||||||||||||||||||||
| House | 7.1% | 21.7% | 60.6% | 29.8 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Senate | 6.3% | 53.3% | 68.8% | 42.8 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 7.0% | 26.2% | 61.7% | 31.6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
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