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The 8th congressional district of Tennessee is a congressional district in West Tennessee.It has been represented by Republican David Kustoff since January 2017. The district appears rural on a map, but the bulk of its vote is cast in the suburban and exurban areas around Memphis, such as Germantown, Bartlett, and Collierville, as well as Fayette and Tipton counties.
The Tennessee congressional maps are an example of partisan gerrymandering, in this case by the Republican-controlled state legislature, which in 2022 drew maps to ‘crack’ the Democratic stronghold of Nashville across three otherwise Republican districts, ensuring three Republican representatives, despite Nashville’s strong Democratic ...
List of current members United States House from Tennessee, their terms in office, district boundaries, and the district political ratings according to the CPVI. The delegation has 9 members: 8 Republicans and 1 Democrat .
The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices, including a gubernatorial election and an election to the U.S. Senate. The primary election for House seats was held on August 7, 2014. Following the general elections, no seats changed hands, leaving the Tennessee delegation at a 7-2 Republican majority.
In the 2015 municipal elections, two amendments to the Metropolitan Nashville Charter which would have increased term limits for members of the Council, both at large and district-wide to three consecutive terms, as well as reducing the size of the council to 27 members, were proposed.
U.S. District 6 encompasses eastern Davidson County and spans across middle Tennessee and the north-central Tennessee border, including cities like Cookeville and Oneida. Incumbent U.S. Rep. John ...
Several U.S. House districts in Tennessee have unopposed Republican and Democratic primaries on Aug. 1.
At least 19 states, including Tennessee, passed voter ID laws and limited access to mail-in voting between 2020 and 2021 that made voting more difficult, particularly affecting marginalized and ...