Tennessee

Tennessee Voter Guide 2026

Browse tracked Tennessee jurisdictions, compare candidate profiles, and enter your ZIP code to see the exact races on your ballot.

State hubs preview the places and candidate profiles we’re tracking now. A ZIP code shows your statewide and congressional races; a street address adds county and city contests.

State Snapshot

Primary ElectionAug. 6, 2026

General ElectionNov. 3, 2026

StateTennessee

Places Listed32

Profiles539

Tennessee's congressional district boundaries were redrawn in a May 2026 special session, and the new map faces a pending court challenge. Confirm your current district with the state's official address lookup at tncot.cc/tndistrict; district lists here update as the courts rule.

2026 Statewide Races

Candidates The Ballot Brief is tracking for Tennessee's statewide contests. Tap a name for their bio and campaign link, or enter your address for the full ballot with finance data.

Governor

11 candidates

Marsha Blackburn (R)
Marsha Blackburn is a Republican candidate for Tennessee governor and a U.S. senator. She previously served in the Tennessee Senate and U.S. House, and her campaign emphasizes conservative state leadership, immigration enforcement, parental rights, energy production, public safety, and lowering taxes and regulation.
Priorities: Advance conservative state leadership · Strengthen public safety and immigration enforcement · Lower taxes, reduce regulation, and support energy production
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John Rose (R)
John Rose is a Republican candidate for Tennessee governor and a U.S. representative from Middle Tennessee. A farmer, attorney, small-business owner, and former state agriculture commissioner, he is running on conservative governance, rural communities, agriculture, infrastructure, education, and economic opportunity.
Priorities: Support rural Tennessee and agriculture · Lower taxes and reduce regulation · Invest in infrastructure, education, and economic opportunity
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Monty Fritts (R)
Monty Fritts is a Republican candidate for Tennessee governor and a state representative from Roane County. His campaign emphasizes limited government, lower spending, property rights, gun rights, opposition to corporate subsidies, and a more confrontational conservative approach to state government.
Priorities: Shrink state government and spending · Defend property rights and gun rights · Challenge corporate subsidies and establishment politics
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Jerri Green (D)
Jerri Green is a Democratic candidate for Tennessee governor, a Memphis city council member, attorney, and former Shelby County official. Her campaign emphasizes working families, public schools, health care access, reproductive rights, gun-violence prevention, and a state government more responsive to cities and rural communities.
Priorities: Support public schools and working families · Expand health care access and protect reproductive rights · Address gun violence and strengthen local communities
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Carnita Atwater (D)
Carnita Atwater is a Democratic candidate for Tennessee governor, museum president, community advocate, and past candidate for governor and Memphis mayor. Her public work centers on Memphis neighborhoods, poverty, public health, education, criminal justice concerns, and representation for communities she argues have been left out of state decision-making.
Priorities: Address poverty, health, and neighborhood disinvestment · Support education and community services · Center Memphis and underserved communities in state policy
Tim Cyr (D)
Tim Cyr is a Democratic candidate for Tennessee governor and a Gallatin-area home repair business owner. His campaign presents him as a working-class Democrat focused on affordability, public services, state accountability, and listening to Tennesseans outside the usual political class.
Priorities: Represent working Tennesseans · Address affordability and basic state services · Offer a Democratic alternative in the open governor race
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Adam Kurtz (D)
Adam "Ditch" Kurtz is a Democratic candidate for Tennessee governor and a Nashville musician. His campaign presents an outsider, working-class message focused on affordability, state accountability, public services, labor, and breaking from what he describes as politics-as-usual in Nashville.
Priorities: Represent working Tennesseans · Increase state government accountability · Address affordability, labor, and public services
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Kevin Lee McCants (D)
Kevin Lee McCants is a Democratic candidate for Tennessee governor on the August 6, 2026 primary ballot, per the certified Davidson County sample ballot published by the county Election Commission.
David Hatley (I)
David Hatley is an independent candidate for Tennessee governor and businessman from East Tennessee. His campaign emphasizes independent leadership, entrepreneurship, public safety, local control, affordability, and a message that voters should have options beyond the two major parties.
Priorities: Offer independent executive leadership · Support entrepreneurship and affordability · Strengthen public safety and local communities
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Lauren Pinkston (I)
Lauren Pinkston is an independent candidate for Tennessee governor and former Lipscomb University professor. Her campaign presents a nonpartisan alternative focused on education, democracy, health care, public trust, and building a broader coalition outside the major-party primary system.
Priorities: Offer a nonpartisan alternative for Tennessee voters · Improve education, health care, and public trust · Build cross-partisan civic participation
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Robert Vick (I)
Robert Vick is an independent candidate for Tennessee governor and educator. His campaign presents a faith-centered, independent message focused on education, families, public safety, and leadership outside the Republican and Democratic primary contests.
Priorities: Offer faith-centered independent leadership · Support education and families · Strengthen public safety and state services
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U.S. Senate

5 candidates

Bill Hagerty (R)Incumbent
Bill Hagerty is Tennessee's incumbent U.S. senator and a Republican candidate for re-election. A former U.S. ambassador to Japan and private-sector executive, he has emphasized border security, taxes, regulation, national security, energy, judicial nominations, and support for conservative economic policy.
Priorities: Strengthen border security and national security · Lower taxes and reduce regulation · Advance conservative economic, energy, and judicial policy
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Marquita Bradshaw (D)
Marquita Bradshaw is a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Tennessee and the party's 2020 Senate nominee. An environmental justice organizer from Memphis, she is running on health care, clean air and water, working families, education, labor, and campaign-finance reform.
Priorities: Advance environmental justice and public health · Support education, labor, and working families · Expand health care access and clean up politics
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Maria Brewer (D)
Maria Brewer is a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Tennessee and a former Tennessee Democratic Party staffer. Her campaign emphasizes affordability, health care, public education, democracy, and rebuilding trust with voters who feel ignored by federal politics.
Priorities: Lower costs for Tennessee families · Improve health care and public education · Strengthen democratic participation and accountable representation
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Civil Miller-Watkins (D)
Civil Miller-Watkins is a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Tennessee, educator, and community advocate. Her campaign emphasizes students, public education, working families, civil rights, voting access, and a more responsive federal government for Tennessee communities.
Priorities: Support education and students · Represent working families · Protect civil rights and voting access
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Diana Onyejiaka (D)
Diana Onyejiaka is a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Tennessee, businesswoman, and professor. Her campaign presents a challenge to the incumbent focused on affordability, health care, education, economic opportunity, and stronger representation for Tennessee families.
Priorities: Lower costs for families · Improve health care and education access · Strengthen community-focused representation
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Statewide Ballot Measures

3 statewide measures are on Tennessee's 2026 ballot. Tap a measure for the plain-language summary.

Amendment 1: Remove Right to Bail for Certain Criminal Offenses Measure
Remove the right to bail for specified criminal offenses.
Constitutional amendment (legislative referral)
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Amendment 2: Prohibit State Property Taxes Measure
Prohibit the legislature from enacting taxes on property.
Constitutional amendment (legislative referral)
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Amendment 3: Marsy's Law Crime Victims' Rights Measure
Amend the list of crime victims' rights in the constitution.
Constitutional amendment (legislative referral)
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Places We’re Tracking

Open a local guide to preview candidate profiles by county, city, or jurisdiction. A ZIP code lookup is the fastest way to narrow this to a specific ballot.

Shelby County

63 candidates

63 tracked candidate profiles
33 races covered

Davidson County

42 candidates

42 tracked candidate profiles
29 races covered

Knox County

27 candidates

27 tracked candidate profiles
13 races covered

Rutherford County

74 candidates

74 tracked candidate profiles
33 office types represented

Montgomery County

58 candidates

58 tracked candidate profiles
22 office types represented

Bradley County

53 candidates

53 tracked candidate profiles
35 office types represented

Cumberland County

44 candidates

44 tracked candidate profiles
21 office types represented

Putnam County

29 candidates

29 tracked candidate profiles
15 office types represented

Hamblen County

28 candidates

28 tracked candidate profiles
19 office types represented

Sevier County

23 candidates

23 tracked candidate profiles
12 office types represented

Robertson County

21 candidates

21 tracked candidate profiles
10 office types represented

Memphis city

19 candidates

19 tracked candidate profiles
5 office types represented

Wilson County

19 candidates

19 tracked candidate profiles
11 office types represented

Williamson County

17 candidates

17 tracked candidate profiles
10 office types represented

Balance of Sullivan County

16 candidates

16 tracked candidate profiles
7 office types represented

Hendersonville city

15 candidates

15 tracked candidate profiles
10 office types represented

Washington County

15 candidates

15 tracked candidate profiles
15 office types represented

Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government (balance)

12 candidates

12 tracked candidate profiles
7 office types represented

Maury County

11 candidates

11 tracked candidate profiles
9 office types represented

Anderson County

8 candidates

8 tracked candidate profiles
5 office types represented

Blount County

8 candidates

8 tracked candidate profiles
6 office types represented

Greene County

7 candidates

7 tracked candidate profiles
3 office types represented

Balance of Blount County

5 candidates

5 tracked candidate profiles
3 office types represented

Balance of Knox County

5 candidates

5 tracked candidate profiles
3 office types represented

Balance of Shelby County

5 candidates

5 tracked candidate profiles
3 office types represented

Hamilton County

4 candidates

4 tracked candidate profiles
2 office types represented

Balance of Wilson County

3 candidates

3 tracked candidate profiles
3 office types represented

Johnson City city (pt.)

3 candidates

3 tracked candidate profiles
2 office types represented

Madison County

3 candidates

3 tracked candidate profiles
1 office type represented

Sumner County

3 candidates

3 tracked candidate profiles
3 office types represented

Balance of Hamilton County

2 candidates

2 tracked candidate profiles
1 office type represented

Jackson city

2 candidates

2 tracked candidate profiles
2 office types represented

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Voting Resources

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Election Calendar

Track major 2026 dates and upcoming election milestones.

Note: State hubs summarize tracked places; exact ballot results depend on address and district boundaries.Profiles: Candidate data updates as official filings and campaign materials publish.