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2008 Tennessee House Of Representatives Election
The 2008 Tennessee House of Representatives election was held on November 4, 2008, to elect 99 seats for the Tennessee House of Representatives. The elections coincided with the Presidential, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and State Senate elections. The primary elections were held on August 7, 2008. Republicans gained 4 seats, gaining a slim majority in the chamber. At this time, Republicans had last won the House chamber in 1968. Predictions Results summary Close races See also * 2008 Tennessee elections * 2008 Tennessee Senate election References {{2008 United States elections Tennessee House A house is a single-unit residential building. It may range in complexity from a rudimentary hut to a complex structure of wood, masonry, concrete or other material, outfitted with plumbing, electrical, and heating, ventilation, and air c ... Tennessee House of Representatives election elections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee House Of Representatives
The Tennessee House of Representatives is the lower house of the Tennessee General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee. Constitutional requirements According to the state constitution of 1870, this body is to consist of 99 members elected for two-year terms. In every even-numbered year, elections for state representative are conducted simultaneously with the elections for U.S. Representative and other offices; the primary election being held on the first Thursday in August. Seats which become vacant, such as through death, resignation, or expulsion, are filled either: by the county commission (or metropolitan county council) of the home county of the member vacating the seat if less than a year remains in the seat's term; if more than a year remains in the term, a special election is held for the balance of the term. Districts Members are elected from single-member districts. The districts are traditionally numbered consecutively from east to we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Tennessee Senate Election
The 2008 Tennessee State Senate election was held on November 4, 2008, to elect 16 of the 33 seats for the Tennessee Senate, Tennessee's State Senate. The elections coincided with the 2008 United States presidential election in Tennessee, Presidential, 2008 United States Senate election in Tennessee, U.S. Senate, 2008 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee, U.S. House, and 2008 Tennessee House of Representatives election, State House elections. The Partisan primary, primary elections were held on August 7, 2008. Republican Party (United States), Republicans gained 2 seats, expanding their majority that they gained in 2006 Tennessee Senate election, 2006. Predictions Results summary Closest races Results See also * 2008 Tennessee elections * 2008 Tennessee House of Representatives election References {{Reflist 2008 Tennessee elections, Senate 2008 state legislature elections in the United States, Tennessee Senate Tennessee Sen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Tennessee Elections
Tennessee state elections in 2008 were held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Partisan primary, Primary elections for the United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, Tennessee Senate, and Tennessee House of Representatives, as well as various Judge, judicial retention elections, including elections for two Tennessee Supreme Court justices, were held on August 7, 2008. Presidential election President of the United States In 2008, Tennessee had 11 electoral votes in the United States Electoral College, Electoral College at the time. In the general election, Republican Party (United States), Republican candidate John McCain won the state with 56.85% of the vote to Democratic Party (United States), Democratic candidate Barack Obama, Obama's 41.79%. The presidential primaries were held on February 5, 2008. Mike Huckabee won Tennessee's Republican primary over Senator John McCain of Arizona. Former first lady Hillary Clinton defeated Senator Barack Obama of Illino ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Write-in
A write-in candidate is a candidate whose name does not appear on the ballot but seeks election by asking voters to cast a vote for the candidate by physically writing in the person's name on the ballot. Depending on electoral law it may be possible to win an election by winning a sufficient number of such write-in votes, which count equally as if the person were formally listed on the ballot. Writing in a name that is not already on the election ballot is a permitted practice in the United States. However, some other jurisdictions have allowed this practice. In the United States, there are variations in laws governing write-in candidates, depending on the office (federal or local) and whether the election is a primary election or the general election; general practice is an empty field close by annotated to explain its purpose on the ballot if it applies. In five U.S. states there are no elections to which it can apply, under their present laws. Election laws are enacted by each ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Politician
An independent politician or non-affiliated politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or Bureaucracy, bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party and therefore they choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In some cases, a politician may be a member of an unregistered party and therefore officially recognised as an independent. Officeholders may become independents after losing or r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee Democratic Party
The Tennessee Democratic Party (TNDP) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party in Tennessee. The party was founded in 1826 initially as the Jacksonian democracy, Jacksonian Party. The Tennessee Democratic Party was born out of President Andrew Jackson's populist philosophy of Jacksonian democracy in the mid to late-1820s. After Jackson left office, the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party struggled in the state as the Whig Party (United States), Whig Party would go on to be the dominant party in Tennessee until its collapse after the 1852 United States presidential election, 1852 Election. Prior to the American Civil War, Civil War, as a result of the collapse of the former Whig Party (United States), Whig Party, the Democratic Party became the dominant party in the state. After the war ended, the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party would be the dominant political party during Reconstruction era, Reconstruction, but onc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee Republican Party
The Tennessee Republican Party (TRP or TNGOP) is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party in Tennessee. Since the mid-1960s, the state has become increasingly Republican. The current chairman of the Republican Party of Tennessee is Scott Golden. It is currently the dominant party in the state, controlling all but one of Tennessee's nine U.S. House seats, both U.S. Senate, the governorship, and has supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature. History Upon its entry into the Union in 1796, Tennessee was strongly Democratic-Republican. Tennessee became a two-party system for more than 20 years during the Jacksonian era. The Democratic Party was formed by Jackson followers, and this party was dominant against the rival Whig Party led by Henry Clay. But in 1835, there was a turn in power of party, and a Whig governor was elected. Tennessee, after the American Civil War was part of the Democratic South for about a century. East Tennessee, however, remained stro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Party Strength In Tennessee
Tennessee's politics are currently dominated by the Republican Party. Republicans currently hold both of the state's U.S. Senate seats, a majority of Congressional seats, and the state legislature. Democratic strength is largely concentrated in Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga and parts of Knoxville, Clarksville, Murfreesboro and Jackson. Several rural Black Belt areas of West Tennessee and suburban areas of the Nashville/Murfreesboro, Chattanooga and Knoxville metropolitan areas also contain significant Democratic minorities. On the other hand, Republicans have a solid base of support in Cookeville and its suburbs, most exurban areas around Nashville except in Rutherford County and Franklin, most suburbs of Memphis, the Tri-Cities outside of Johnson City itself and most white-majority rural areas, regularly outperforming even their statewide results there. Table The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Tennessee: *Governor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is a Right-wing politics, right-wing political parties in the United States, political party in the United States. One of the Two-party system, two major parties, it emerged as the main rival of the then-dominant Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party in the 1850s, and the two parties have dominated American politics since then. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists opposing the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery in the United States, slavery into U.S. territories. It rapidly gained support in the Northern United States, North, drawing in former Whig Party (United States), Whigs and Free Soil Party, Free Soilers. Abraham Lincoln's 1860 United States presidential election, election in 1860 led to the secession of Southern states and the outbreak of the American Civil War. Under Lincoln and a Republican-controlled Congress, the party led efforts to preserve th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partisan Primary
Primary elections or primaries are elections held to determine which candidates will run in an upcoming general election. In a partisan primary, a political party selects a candidate. Depending on the state and/or party, there may be an "open primary", in which all voters are eligible to participate, or a "closed primary", in which only members of a political party can vote. Less common are nonpartisan primaries in which all candidates run regardless of party. The origins of primary elections can be traced to the progressive movement in the United States, which aimed to take the power of candidate nomination from party leaders to the people. However, political parties control the method of nomination of candidates for office in the name of the party. Other methods of selecting candidates include caucuses, internal selection by a party body such as a convention or party congress, direct nomination by the party leader, and nomination meetings. A similar procedure for selecting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 United States House Of Representatives Elections In Tennessee
The 2008 congressional elections in Tennessee was held on November 4, 2008, to elect the nine United States House of Representatives, U.S. representatives from the U.S. state, state of Tennessee, one from each of the state's nine Tennessee's congressional districts, congressional districts. Following the 2008 elections, no seats changed hands, leaving the Tennessee delegation at a 5-4 Democratic Party (United States), Democratic majority. As of , this was the last time Democratic Party (United States), Democrats won a majority of congressional districts from United States congressional delegations from Tennessee, Tennessee's House delegation, as well as the House popular vote. Overview ''(There was 65 Write-in candidate, Write-in votes that were added to the statewide total number of votes).'' By district District 1 This district covers northeast Tennessee, including all of Carter County, Tennessee, Carter, Cocke County, Tennessee, Cocke, Greene County, Tennessee, Gree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee House Of Representatives 3rd District
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 has been represented by Timothy Hill since May 2023. Demographics * 93% of the district is White * 2% of the district is African American * 2% of the district is Hispanic * 4% of the district is two or more races List of representatives {, class="wikitable" , + !Representative !Party !Years of Service !General Assembly !Residence , - , Ralph Yelton , rowspan="1" , Democratic , 1977–1991 , 90th, 91st, 92nd, 93rd, 94th, 95th, 96th , rowspan="2" , Kingsport , - , Richard Venable , rowspan="5" , Republican , 1991-1997 , 97th, 98th, 99th, , - , Jason Mumpower , 1997-2011 , 100th, 101st, 102nd, 103rd, 104th, 105th, 106th , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
