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The 1st district's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives has been held by Republicans since 1881. The district was created in 1805 when the at-large seat was divided among multiple districts. The district's current representative is Republican Diana Harshbarger, who was first elected in 2020 following the retirement of Republican Phil Roe. [5]
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 ...
The district is located in East Tennessee and borders Kentucky and Virginia to the north and North Carolina to the south. It covers all of Blount, Claiborne, Grainger, Knox, Loudon and Union counties, along with the northern half of Campbell County and a sliver of Jefferson County.
Jefferson County is an exurban [5] county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee.As of the 2020 census, the population was 54,683. [6] Its county seat is Dandridge. [7] Jefferson County is part of the Morristown Metropolitan Statistical Area with neighboring Grainger and Hamblen counties.
English: This is a locator map showing Jefferson County in Tennessee. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
District 8 covers much of rural East Tennessee in between Knoxville and the Tri-Cities, including all of Claiborne, Grainger, Hancock, Jefferson, Union Counties, and part of Sevier County. Communities in the district include Jefferson City, Harrogate, Strawberry Plains, New Tazewell, Bean Station, Dandridge, Maynardville, Sneedville. [3]
Dandridge is located south of the center of Jefferson County at (36.028493, -83.424010 The town is situated along the northern bank of the Douglas Lake impoundment of the French Broad River , approximately 45 miles (72 km) upstream by river from its confluence with the Holston and Tennessee rivers at Knoxville , and approximately 12 miles (19 ...
The 1st district is based in northeast Tennessee, encompassing all of Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington counties and parts of Jefferson and Sevier counties, and includes the Tri-Cities region.