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The 5th congressional district of Tennessee is a congressional district in Middle Tennessee.It has been represented by Republican Andy Ogles since January 2023.. In the past, the fifth district has been nearly synonymous with Tennessee's capital city, Nashville, as the district has almost always been centered on Nashville throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries.
The 5th district comprises a southern portion of Davidson County; portions of Wilson and Williamson Counties; and the entirety of Maury, Lewis, and Marshall Counties. The incumbent is Republican Andy Ogles , who flipped the district and was elected to a first term with 55.84% of the vote in 2022. [ 2 ]
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. The incumbent is Republican Diana Harshbarger, who was re-elected with 78.1% of the vote in ...
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 ...
In the 2020 elections, she won the Democratic primary for a seat in the Tennessee Senate [5] before defeating two-term Republican incumbent Steven Dickerson, 51.7% to 48.3%. [ 6 ] In April 2022, Campbell announced her candidacy for Tennessee's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives after incumbent Jim Cooper ...
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 ...
The 6th and 7th districts absorbed the western and eastern parts of Davidson county, respectively. [33] In the general election, Republican Andy Ogles defeated Democratic challenger Heidi Campbell. With Ogles' victory, he became the first Republican in 150 years to represent Nashville in the House of Representatives.
Republican Party Chair Scott Golden touted Tennessee as turning into the “reddest of the red” states, noting the largest vote differential between President Joe Biden and Trump in 2020 was in ...