Tennessee House of Representatives elections, 2026

2026 Tennessee House Elections
Primary	Pending
General	November 3, 2026

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Elections for the Tennessee House of Representatives will take place in 2026. The general election is on November 3, 2026.

The Tennessee House of Representatives is one of 88 state legislative chambers with elections in 2026. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.

Party control

See also: Partisan composition of state houses and State government trifectas

Party	As of March 2025
	Democratic Party	24
	Republican Party	75
	Independent	0
	Vacancies	0
Total	99

Candidates

Note: The following list includes official candidates only. Ballotpedia defines official candidates as people who:

• Register with a federal or state campaign finance agency before the candidate filing deadline
• Appear on candidate lists released by government election agencies

This list will be updated after the candidate filing deadline has passed and the official list of candidates becomes available. Please contact us if you notice an official candidate missing from the list or the inclusion of a candidate who withdrew.

Primary

General election

Voting information

See also: Voting in Tennessee

Ballotpedia will publish the dates and deadlines related to this election as they are made available.

Competitiveness

This section will be updated with information about the competitiveness of state legislative elections in Tennessee. For more information about Ballotpedia's Competitiveness Analysis of state legislative elections, please click here.

Process to become a candidate

See also: Ballot access requirements for political candidates in Tennessee

See statutes: Chapter 2-5 and Chapter 2-7 of the Tennessee Code

State legislative candidates

A candidate running for the state legislature, whether partisan or independent, must adhere to the same ballot access requirements, which are detailed below.

1. The candidate must obtain a nominating petition from a county election commission office or the office of the state coordinator of elections.^[1][2]
2. The nominating petition must be signed by the candidate and at least 25 voters who are registered in the candidate's district.^[1][2]
3. The signer of a petition must include the address shown on his or her voter registration card in order for his or her signature to be counted.^[2]
4. The candidate must file the original nominating petition in the office of the county election commission by the first Thursday of April in his or her county of residence. The candidate must also file a certified duplicate in the county election commission office in each county wholly or partially within the candidate's district. This requirement applies to both political party candidates running in the primary and independent candidates running in the general election.^[1][2]
5. There are no filing fees.

Federal and statewide office

A partisan or independent candidate for governor, United States Representative, or United States Senator must obtain a nominating petition from a county election commission office or the office of the state coordinator of elections.^[3][4]

1. The nominating petition must be signed by at least 25 voters who are registered anywhere in Tennessee.^[3][5]
2. The signer of a petition must include the address shown on his or her voter registration card in order for the signature to be counted.^[2]
3. The candidate must file the nominating petition no later than noon on the first Thursday of April.^[3][5]
4. The candidate must file the original nominating petition in the office of the Tennessee State Election Commission. The candidate must also file a certified duplicate in the office of the state coordinator of elections. Both of these must be received by the qualifying deadline.^[3][5]
5. There are no filing fees.

For write-in candidates

In order to have his or her votes tallied, a write-in candidate must file a certificate of write-in candidacy no later than noon on the 50th day before the general election in each county that makes up the district of the listed office. For the offices of governor, United States Senator, and United States Representative, this form must be filed with the Tennessee Coordinator of Elections.^[6][7]

Qualifications

See also: State legislature candidate requirements by state

To be eligible to serve in the Tennessee House of Representatives, a candidate must be:^[8]

• A U.S. citizen
• 21 years old before the general election
• A three-year resident of Tennessee before the general election
• A county resident for 1 year prior to the general election
• A qualified voter

• The following situations would eliminate a candidate from qualifying for office:
  • Those who have been convicted of offering or giving a bribe, or of larceny, or any other offense declared infamous by law, unless restored to citizenship in the mode pointed out by law;
  • Those against whom there is a judgment unpaid for any moneys received by them, in any official capacity, due to the United States, to this state, or any county thereof;
  • Those who are defaulters to the treasury at the time of the election, and the election of any such person shall be void;
  • Soldiers, seamen, marines, or airmen in the regular army or navy or air force of the United States; and
  • Members of congress, and persons holding any office of profit or trust under any foreign power, other state of the union, or under the United States.

Salaries and per diem

See also: Comparison of state legislative salaries

State legislative salaries, 2024[9]
Salary	Per diem
$28,405.96/year	$326.47/day. Legislators living within 50 miles of the Capitol receive a reduced amount of $47 per day.

When sworn in

See also: When state legislators assume office after a general election

Tennessee legislators assume office on the day they are elected in the general election.^[10]

Tennessee political history

Trifectas

A state government trifecta is a term that describes single-party government, when one political party holds the governor's office and has majorities in both chambers of the legislature in a state government.

Tennessee Party Control: 1992-2024
Five years of Democratic trifectas  •  Fourteen years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.

Presidential politics in Tennessee

2024

See also: Presidential election, 2024

2020

See also: Presidential election, 2020

2016

See also: Presidential election, 2016

Tennessee presidential election results (1900-2024)

• 15 Democratic wins
• 17 Republican wins

Redistricting following the 2020 census

On November 22, 2023, the Davidson County Chancery Court struck down the state senate map, declaring it unconstitutional. The court ordered the state to create a new state senate map by January 31, 2024.^[11] On April 13, 2022, the Tennessee Supreme Court reversed a ruling by the Davidson County Chancery Court on April 6 blocking the same state senate map. Gov. Lee signed the state's legislative districts into law on February 6, 2022.^[12]

See also

Tennessee	State Legislative Elections	News and Analysis
Tennessee State Executive Offices Tennessee State Legislature Tennessee Courts	2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 Tennessee elections: 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015	Party control of state government State government trifectas Partisan composition of state legislatures Partisan composition of state senates Partisan composition of state houses

External links

• Tennessee House of Representatives

Footnotes