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The Tennessee House of Representatives 3rd district in the United States is one of 99 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Tennessee General Assembly. The district represents Johnson County and parts of Carter, Hawkins, and Sullivan counties. It includes the cities of Mountain City, Bluff City, and Mount Carmel. The district ...
The delegation has a total of 9 members, with 8 Republicans, and 1 Democrat. 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 ...
The 3rd district is on the dividing line between counties and towns that favored or opposed Southern secession in the Civil War. George Washington Bridges was elected as a Unionist (the name used by a coalition of Republicans and War Democrats) to the Thirty-seventh Congress, but he was arrested by Confederate troops while en route to Washington, D.C., and taken back to Tennessee.
The Tennessee House of Representatives 86th district in the United States is one of 99 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Tennessee General Assembly. The district represents the western part of Shelby County, which includes Downtown Memphis, Beale Street, South Memphis, Benjestown, Northaven, and parts of the city of ...
The number of voting seats within the House of Representatives is currently set at 435, with each one representing an average of 761,169 people following the 2020 United States census. [1] The number of voting seats has applied since 1913, excluding a temporary increase to 437 after the admissions of Alaska and Hawaii .
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 into 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]
Tennessee House of Representatives 92nd district in the United States is one of 99 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Tennessee Legislature. It covers all of Marshall County, parts of Franklin County, Marion County, and Lincoln County. [1] [2]
November 2020 saw the election of first openly LGBT people ever to hold seats in Tennessee's state house of representatives, [16] Democrat Torrey Harris and Republican Eddie Mannis. [17] Before November 3, 2020, Tennessee was one of just five states in the nation (others being Alaska, Delaware, Louisiana and Mississippi) to have never elected ...