Tennessee elections in 2026

Tennessee US Senate: D 38.0 to R 62.0, safe Republican, well sourced. Hagerty maintains clear advantage in Tennessee Senate rematch

Tennessee Governor: D 44.0 to R 53.0, lean Republican, well sourced. Marsha Blackburn faces surprisingly tight race against Jerri Green in Tennessee

House delegation as simulated: 1 D, 8 R, 0 tossups of 9 districts swept.

Model readings of live reporting, not polling. The full Tennessee board, with sourcing and the county map where one exists, is on the Midterms 2026 tab of the homepage.

How Tennessee votes

Tennessee combines Nashville's explosive growth with Memphis's logistics economy and a strongly conservative countryside. Republicans dominate statewide, and growth management has joined taxes among its recurring issues.

Its largest population centers include Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga. Where a state's people live, and what those places do for a living, is the starting point for how Electorate HQ simulations reason about it.

On the ballot in Tennessee

Election day is November 3, 2026. Tennessee has 2 statewide races and 9 House seats on the ballot.

Statewide races

House districts

Every House seat is elected every two years. Each district below is listed with the counties inside it, computed from the current Census boundary files, wherever those files give a clean answer. Not sure which district is yours? Use the address lookup below.

• Tennessee 1st district: Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson, Johnson and 4 more counties (12 in all)
• Tennessee 2nd district: Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, Knox, Loudon, Union Counties
• Tennessee 3rd district: Anderson, Bradley, Hamilton, McMinn, Monroe, Morgan, Polk, Roane Counties
• Tennessee 4th district: Bedford, Bledsoe, Coffee, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Lawrence, Lincoln and 7 more counties (15 in all)
• Tennessee 5th district: Lewis, Marshall, Maury, Wilson Counties
• Tennessee 6th district: Cannon, Clay, Cumberland, DeKalb, Fentress, Jackson, Macon, Overton and 8 more counties (16 in all)
• Tennessee 7th district: Benton, Cheatham, Davidson, Decatur, Dickson, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys and 6 more counties (14 in all)
• Tennessee 8th district: Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Hardin and 9 more counties (17 in all)
• Tennessee 9th district: Shelby, Tipton Counties

Find your exact districts

Which district am I in? Tennessee districts by county

House districts follow population, not county lines, so a single county can hold several districts and a single district can span many. Each county is listed under the district that holds its center, so if your county appears once above, that district holds most of it and is probably yours. If it appears under several, or if you live near a district line, use the address lookup for the exact answer.

Before you vote in Tennessee

Registration deadlines, early voting windows, mail ballot rules and identification requirements are all set at the state level and change between cycles, so the authoritative source is your own election office rather than any national site. The federal directory at vote.gov links to every state's registration system, and your county election office publishes the sample ballot that includes local contests.

The ballot section above covers the federal and statewide offices on the Tennessee ballot for November 3, 2026. Each statewide race links to a page with current coverage and an AI-generated simulation of the contest, always labeled as a simulation rather than a poll.

Local races

Local councils and commissions, school boards, judges, sheriffs and municipal offices are also on many Tennessee ballots, and they vary block by block. Your county election office publishes the authoritative local sample ballot.

Tennessee's weight in Washington

Tennessee carries 11 electoral votes, which ranks it 17 of 51 by that measure, and sends 9 voting members to the House.

That arithmetic is why the same national argument lands differently here than in a state of another size: a candidate courting Tennessee is competing for a specific share of the map, and the issues below are the ones that share actually turns on.

How Tennessee is represented

Tennessee is divided into 9 House districts, each drawn to hold roughly the same number of people, while its two Senate seats represent the state as a whole. A campaign here therefore runs two different arguments at once: a local one shaped by whichever district a voter lives in, and a statewide one that has to hold together across all 9.

Electoral votes follow the same arithmetic, House seats plus two, which is why Tennessee carries 11 in a presidential year and why small states carry proportionally more weight there than population alone would give them. The district list above shows every district on the 2026 ballot and the counties the boundary files place inside each one.

Latest Tennessee political headlines

Simulate Tennessee

In the Electorate HQ simulator, Tennessee is one of 51 delegations that reads current reporting and decides a presidential race issue by issue. Results are AI simulations, clearly labeled, with the reasoning shown for every call. See the methodology for what that does and does not mean.

Analysis covering Tennessee

• Alabama has the most evenly sized congressional map in the country

  Every redistricting argument is about the extremes. Here is the opposite: the state whose seven districts land within a factor of three of each other.

• Twenty-six states elect a senator and a governor on the same day in 2026

  The overlap between the Senate class and the gubernatorial cohort is a coincidence of two unrelated calendars, and it decides where money goes.

• The 2026 Senate map covers 62% of the country and 70% of the states

  Thirty-five of fifty states vote for Senate this year. Weighted by people rather than states the share drops, and that gap is the design of the chamber.