{
 "topic": "senate",
 "site": "electiondata.dev",
 "place": {
  "id": "us-tn",
  "name": "Tennessee",
  "level": "us-state",
  "parent": "usa",
  "path": "us/tn",
  "slug": "tn",
  "state": "tn",
  "state_name": "Tennessee",
  "state_id": "us-tn"
 },
 "question": "How did Tennessee vote for the Senate?",
 "answer": {
  "verdict": "Marsha Blackburn (Republican) won by 29.6 points",
  "value": 29.6,
  "unit": " pts",
  "digits": 1,
  "label": "Senate, 2024: winner's margin",
  "lines": [
   "Marsha Blackburn (Republican) 63.8%, Gloria Johnson (Democrat) 34.2%, Tharon Chandler (Independent) 0.9%",
   "3,007,608 votes for Senate candidates"
  ]
 },
 "as_of": "2024",
 "as_of_label": "2024",
 "charts": [
  {
   "id": "senate-margin",
   "title": "Every regular Senate election in Tennessee since 1976",
   "description": "17 regular elections; Democrats were ahead in 5 and Republicans in 12.",
   "indicator": "Democratic candidate's share of Senate votes minus the Republican's, points (regular elections; special elections are in the table)",
   "subtitle": "Democratic share minus Republican share, in points. Above the line: the Democrat got more votes.",
   "x": {
    "kind": "year"
   },
   "y": {
    "digits": 1,
    "unit": " pts",
    "format": "party-margin"
   },
   "layers": [
    {
     "type": "bars",
     "name": "Margin",
     "base": 0,
     "points": [
      [
       1976,
       5.443,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1978,
       -15.246,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1982,
       23.851,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1984,
       26.916,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1988,
       30.566,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1990,
       37.911,
       "dem"
      ],
      [
       1994,
       -14.257,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       1996,
       -24.547,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2000,
       -32.889,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2002,
       -9.94,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2006,
       -2.723,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2008,
       -33.5,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2012,
       -34.485,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2014,
       -30.002,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2018,
       -10.787,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2020,
       -27.037,
       "rep"
      ],
      [
       2024,
       -29.634,
       "rep"
      ]
     ],
     "legend": [
      {
       "label": "Democrat ahead",
       "cls": "dem"
      },
      {
       "label": "Republican ahead",
       "cls": "rep"
      }
     ]
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "limits": [
  "Statewide totals say nothing about who voted or why.",
  "Candidates with a party's support under another name (Minnesota's DFL, New York's fusion lines) are counted with that party, as the MIT data's simplified party does; independents stay independents."
 ],
 "method": "Each candidate's votes are summed over every ballot line; blank, over- and under-votes are left out. The margin is the winner's share of the votes minus the runner-up's. A runoff, where held, is the result.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "name": "electiondata.dev senate-results, version 2026-10-25.247421eda6",
   "url": "https://electiondata.dev/",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  },
  {
   "name": "MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. Senate statewide 1976-2024",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PEJ5QU",
   "license": "CC0 1.0"
  }
 ],
 "check": {
  "races": [
   {
    "year": 1976,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1432046,
    "votes": {
     "James R. Sasser": 751180,
     "Bill Brock": 673231,
     "Mark Clark Bates": 5137,
     "Willie C. Jacox": 1406,
     "Arnold Joseph Zandie": 1061
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1978,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1157094,
    "votes": {
     "Howard H. Baker": 642644,
     "Jane Eskind": 466228,
     "Thomas J. Anderson": 45908,
     "Fern Lucius Keasler": 2243
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1982,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1259785,
    "votes": {
     "Jim Sasser": 780113,
     "Robin Beard": 479642
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1984,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1648036,
    "votes": {
     "Albert Gore Jr.": 1000607,
     "Victor Ashe": 557016,
     "Ed Mcateer": 87234,
     "Khalil-ullah Al-muhaymin": 3179
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1988,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1567181,
    "votes": {
     "Jim Sasser": 1020061,
     "Bill Andersen": 541033,
     "Khalil-ullah Al-muhaymin": 6042
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1990,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 783922,
    "votes": {
     "Albert Gore Jr.": 530898,
     "William R. Hawkins": 233703,
     "Bill Jacox": 11191,
     "Charles Gordon Vick": 8021
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1994,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1480391,
    "votes": {
     "Bill Frist": 834226,
     "Jim Sasser": 623164,
     "John Jay Hooker": 13244,
     "Charles F. Johnson": 6631,
     "Philip L. Kienlen": 3087
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1994,
    "special": true,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1465862,
    "votes": {
     "Fred Thompson": 885998,
     "Jim Cooper": 565930,
     "Charles N. Hancock": 4169,
     "Charles M. Moore": 2219,
     "Terry L. Lytle": 1934,
     "Kerry Martin": 1719,
     "Jon Walls": 1532,
     "Hobart R. Lumpkin": 1184,
     "Don Schneller": 1150
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 1996,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1778664,
    "votes": {
     "Fred Thompson": 1091554,
     "Houston Gordon": 654937,
     "John Jay Hooker": 14401,
     "Bruce Gold": 5865,
     "Robert O. Watson": 5569,
     "Greg Samples": 4104,
     "Philip L. Kienlen": 2173
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2000,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1928613,
    "votes": {
     "Bill Frist": 1255444,
     "Jeff Clark": 621152,
     "Tom Burrell": 25815,
     "Charles F. Johnson": 10004,
     "Robert Watson": 8416,
     "David Jarrod Ownby": 4388,
     "Joel Kinstle": 3135
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2002,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1642432,
    "votes": {
     "Lamar Alexander": 891498,
     "Bob Clement": 728232,
     "John Jay Hooker": 6401,
     "Wesley M. Baker": 6106,
     "Connie Gammon": 5349,
     "Karl Stanley Davidson": 2217,
     "Basil J. Marceaux": 1170,
     "H. Gary Keplinger": 1103
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2006,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1833695,
    "votes": {
     "Bob Corker": 929911,
     "Harold E. Ford Jr.": 879976,
     "Ed Choate": 10831,
     "David Gatchell": 3746,
     "Emory �_nj�_njbo�_ǐ�_ǐ Heyward": 3580,
     "Gary Keplinger": 3033,
     "Christopher Joseph Lugo": 2589,
     "James Anthony Gray": 14,
     "John Jay Hooker": 13,
     "Gloria D. Reagon Price": 1,
     "Mary Taylor Shelby": 1
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2008,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2424585,
    "votes": {
     "Lamar Alexander": 1579477,
     "Robert D. Tuke": 767236,
     "Edward L. Buck": 31631,
     "Christopher G. Fenner": 11073,
     "Daniel Towers Lewis": 9367,
     "Chris Lugo": 9170,
     "Ed Lawhorn": 8986,
     "David Gatchell": 7645
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2012,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2321477,
    "votes": {
     "Bob Corker": 1506443,
     "Mark E. Clayton": 705882,
     "Martin Pleasant": 38472,
     "Shaun E. Crowell": 20936,
     "Kermit Steck": 18620,
     "James Higdon": 8085,
     "Michel Joseph Long": 8080,
     "Troy Stephen Scoggin": 7148,
     "David Gatchell": 6523
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2014,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 1374065,
    "votes": {
     "Lamar Alexander": 850087,
     "Gordon Ball": 437848,
     "Joe Wilmoth": 36088,
     "Martin Pleasant": 12570,
     "Tom Emerson Jr.": 11157,
     "Danny Page": 7713,
     "Rick Tyler": 5759,
     "Joshua James": 5678,
     "Bartholomew J. Phillips": 2386,
     "Edmund L. Gauthier": 2314,
     "Eric Schechter": 1673,
     "C. Salekin": 787
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2018,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2243740,
    "votes": {
     "Marsha Blackburn": 1227483,
     "Phil Bredesen": 985450,
     "Trudy A. Austin": 9455,
     "Dean Hill": 8717,
     "Kris L. Todd": 5084,
     "John Carico": 3398,
     "Breton Phillips": 2226,
     "Kevin Lee Mccants": 1927
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2020,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 2959761,
    "votes": {
     "Bill Hagerty": 1840926,
     "Marquita Bradshaw": 1040691,
     "Elizabeth Mcleod": 16652,
     "Yomi \"fapas\" Faparusi Sr.": 10727,
     "Steven J. Hooper": 9609,
     "Kacey Morgan": 9598,
     "Ronnie Henley": 8478,
     "Aaron James": 7203,
     "Eric William Stansberry": 6781,
     "G. Dean Hill": 4872,
     "Jeffrey Alan Grunau": 4160
    }
   },
   {
    "year": 2024,
    "special": false,
    "runoff": false,
    "total": 3007608,
    "votes": {
     "Marsha Blackburn": 1918743,
     "Gloria Johnson": 1027461,
     "Tharon Chandler": 28444,
     "Pamela Jeanine \"p.\" Moses": 24682,
     "Hastina Robinson": 8278
    }
   }
  ],
  "dataset": "senate-results",
  "version": "2026-10-25.247421eda6"
 },
 "table": {
  "title": "Every Senate race since 1976",
  "columns": [
   "Race",
   "Winner",
   "Runner-up",
   "Margin",
   "Votes"
  ],
  "num": [
   3,
   4
  ],
  "rows": [
   [
    "2024",
    "Marsha Blackburn (R) 63.8%",
    "Gloria Johnson (D) 34.2%",
    "29.6 pts",
    "3,007,608"
   ],
   [
    "2020",
    "Bill Hagerty (R) 62.2%",
    "Marquita Bradshaw (D) 35.2%",
    "27.0 pts",
    "2,959,761"
   ],
   [
    "2018",
    "Marsha Blackburn (R) 54.7%",
    "Phil Bredesen (D) 43.9%",
    "10.8 pts",
    "2,243,740"
   ],
   [
    "2014",
    "Lamar Alexander (R) 61.9%",
    "Gordon Ball (D) 31.9%",
    "30.0 pts",
    "1,374,065"
   ],
   [
    "2012",
    "Bob Corker (R) 64.9%",
    "Mark E. Clayton (D) 30.4%",
    "34.5 pts",
    "2,321,477"
   ],
   [
    "2008",
    "Lamar Alexander (R) 65.1%",
    "Robert D. Tuke (D) 31.6%",
    "33.5 pts",
    "2,424,585"
   ],
   [
    "2006",
    "Bob Corker (R) 50.7%",
    "Harold E. Ford Jr. (D) 48.0%",
    "2.7 pts",
    "1,833,695"
   ],
   [
    "2002",
    "Lamar Alexander (R) 54.3%",
    "Bob Clement (D) 44.3%",
    "9.9 pts",
    "1,642,432"
   ],
   [
    "2000",
    "Bill Frist (R) 65.1%",
    "Jeff Clark (D) 32.2%",
    "32.9 pts",
    "1,928,613"
   ],
   [
    "1996",
    "Fred Thompson (R) 61.4%",
    "Houston Gordon (D) 36.8%",
    "24.5 pts",
    "1,778,664"
   ],
   [
    "1994 special",
    "Fred Thompson (R) 60.4%",
    "Jim Cooper (D) 38.6%",
    "21.8 pts",
    "1,465,862"
   ],
   [
    "1994",
    "Bill Frist (R) 56.4%",
    "Jim Sasser (D) 42.1%",
    "14.3 pts",
    "1,480,391"
   ],
   [
    "1990",
    "Albert Gore Jr. (D) 67.7%",
    "William R. Hawkins (R) 29.8%",
    "37.9 pts",
    "783,922"
   ],
   [
    "1988",
    "Jim Sasser (D) 65.1%",
    "Bill Andersen (R) 34.5%",
    "30.6 pts",
    "1,567,181"
   ],
   [
    "1984",
    "Albert Gore Jr. (D) 60.7%",
    "Victor Ashe (R) 33.8%",
    "26.9 pts",
    "1,648,036"
   ],
   [
    "1982",
    "Jim Sasser (D) 61.9%",
    "Robin Beard (R) 38.1%",
    "23.9 pts",
    "1,259,785"
   ],
   [
    "1978",
    "Howard H. Baker (R) 55.5%",
    "Jane Eskind (D) 40.3%",
    "15.2 pts",
    "1,157,094"
   ],
   [
    "1976",
    "James R. Sasser (D) 52.5%",
    "Bill Brock (R) 47.0%",
    "5.4 pts",
    "1,432,046"
   ]
  ]
 },
 "api": {
  "now": "/data/places/us-tn/senate.json",
  "source": "https://api.electiondata.dev/v1/senate-results/download/senate-results.csv",
  "source_label": "Every Senate race, every state, from electiondata.dev (live, no key)"
 },
 "generated_at": "2026-10-26T20:05:12+00:00"
}