The 1982 United States Senate election in Tennessee was held on November 2, 1982, concurrently with other elections to the
United States Senate
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in other states as well as elections to the
United States House of Representatives
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and various state and local elections. Incumbent
Democratic U.S. Senator
Jim Sasser won re-election. Sasser defeated
Republican Robin Beard
Robin Jerald Beard Jr. (August 21, 1939 – June 16, 2007) was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee's 6th congressional district, who served from 1973 to 1983 ...
.
Sasser received 92% of the black vote.
Democratic primary
Candidates
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Jim Sasser, incumbent U.S. Senator
*Charles Gordon Vick,
perennial candidate
A perennial candidate is a political candidate who frequently runs for elected office and rarely, if ever, wins. Perennial candidates are most common where there is no limit on the number of times that a person can run for office and little cost ...
Results
Republican primary
Candidates
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Robin Beard
Robin Jerald Beard Jr. (August 21, 1939 – June 16, 2007) was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee's 6th congressional district, who served from 1973 to 1983 ...
, U.S. Representative
*William Bryce Thompson, Jr.
Results
Results
See also
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1982 United States Senate elections
The 1982 United States Senate elections were held on November 2, 1982. They were elections for the United States Senate following Republican Party (United States), Republican gains in 1980 United States Senate elections, 1980. The 33 Senate seats ...
References
Works cited
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{{United States elections, 1982
1982
Events
January
* January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00).
* January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. ...
Tennessee
Tennessee (, ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Carolina t ...
United States Senate
The United States Senate is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the upper house, with the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives being the lower house. Together, the Senate and ...