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 will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Tennessee. Republican incumbent Bill Hagerty is seeking a second term. He is being challenged by Democratic activist Marquita Bradshaw in a rematch of 2020.
In the August 6 primary elections, Hagerty was unopposed the Republican nomination. Bradshaw won the Democratic nomination over former state party director Maria Brewer with 54.8% of the vote.
Democrats have not won a Senate election in Tennessee since 1990.
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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