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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 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 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 ...
Haley won the Republican primary election against Trump in Washington D.C. on Sunday, becoming the first woman to win a Republican presidential primary. Trump’s victory in Tennessee on Tuesday ...
Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn is seeking a second term, while the Democratic primary could prove a key early test for a member of the Tennessee Three, the group of state ...
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.
Not all slips of the lip have a devastating impact. Then-Sen. Barack Obama, in a 2008 Democratic presidential primary debate, dismissively told Hillary Clinton, “You’re likable enough, Hillary.”
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]