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Tennessee state elections in 2010 were held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010. Primary elections for the United States House of Representatives , governorship , Tennessee Senate , and Tennessee House of Representatives , as well as various judicial retention elections , were held on August 5, 2010. [ 1 ]
The 2010 Tennessee House of Representatives election was held on November 2, 2010, to elect 99 seats for the Tennessee House of Representatives. The elections coincided with the Governor, U.S. House, and State Senate elections. The primary elections were held on August 5, 2010. [2] Republicans gained 14 seats, expanding their House majority. [3 ...
The winner of the GOP primary was all but assured of representing the district in Congress as this is one of the safest seats for the GOP; it had held the seat continuously since 1881 and, since prior to the Civil War, the GOP or its predecessors had held the seat for all but four years.
The 2010 Knox County mayoral election was held on August 5, 2010, to determine the next mayor of Knox County, Tennessee. Incumbent Republican Mayor Mike Ragsdale could not run for re-election due to term limits. Republican state senator, Tim Burchett, won the election with 88.3% of the vote against Democrat Ezra Maize. [2] [3] [4]
During this time, East Tennessee was heavily Republican and the western two thirds mostly voted Democratic, with the latter dominating the state. [5] This division was related to the state's pattern of Unionist and Confederate loyalism during the Civil War. [5] Tennessee's politics are currently dominated by the Republican Party.
The 2010 Tennessee State Senate election was held on November 2, 2010, to elect 17 of the 33 seats for the Tennessee's State Senate. The elections coincided with the Governor, U.S. House, and State House elections. The primary elections were held on August 5, 2010. [1] [2] [3] Republicans gained 1 seat, expanding their Senate majority.
The 2010 Tennessee gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 2010, to elect the next governor of Tennessee, alongside other state and local elections. Incumbent Democratic governor Phil Bredesen was term-limited , and is prohibited by the Constitution of Tennessee from seeking a third consecutive term.
In 2008 Johnson was unopposed for both the August 7, 2008 Republican Primary, winning with 1,471 votes, [7] and the November 4, 2008 General election, winning with 18,177 votes. [ 8 ] In 2010 Johnson was unopposed for the August 5, 2010 Republican Primary, winning with 5,545 votes, [ 9 ] and won the November 2, 2010 General election with 10,804 ...