Tennessee US Senate 2026
Election day is November 3, 2026. A statewide contest in Tennessee.
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What the Tennessee US Senate election decides
The Senate confirms federal judges and cabinet officers, ratifies treaties, and can stop legislation the House passes. With a six-year term and a hundred-member chamber, a single seat is a larger share of the institution than any House district, which is why Senate races draw national money into state contests.
Each state sends two senators regardless of population, so this seat carries the same weight as California's or Wyoming's. Tennessee voters fill it alongside all 9 of the state's House seats and the governorship, and a Senate term runs six years, spanning two future Congresses and, in this case, the next presidential election.
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. That backdrop is the ground any Tennessee campaign fights on, and it is what the Electorate HQ simulation reads first when it weighs a ticket's platform against this contest.
About this race
The 2026 United States Senate election in Tennessee was held on November 3, 2026, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Tennessee. Republican incumbent Bill Hagerty was re-elected to a second term, defeating Democratic activist Marquita Bradshaw in a rematch of 2020 with 55.1% of the vote.
Primary elections were held on August 6. Hagerty ran unopposed for the Republican nomination. Bradshaw won the Democratic nomination over former state party director Maria Brewer with 54.8% of the vote.
Compared to the 2020 United States Senate election in Tennessee, when Hagerty won by a 27-point margin, his 2026 re-election victory was considerably narrower at 12.2 points. Marquita Bradshaw also gained ground in all 95 counties compared to 2020. Hagerty lost three counties he had carried in 2020: Hamilton, Montgomery, and Rutherford. He narrowly held Knox County, winning it by 1.9 points. Despite the narrower margin, Hagerty received 181,300 more votes than Republican gubernatorial candidate Marsha Blackburn on the same ballot. This marked the closest election for either Senate seat since 2018, when Blackburn won by a similar margin.
Latest coverage of the Tennessee US Senate race
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Every Tennessee House district, the counties inside each one, and an address lookup that resolves your exact districts are on the Tennessee state page.
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Analysis covering Tennessee
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