The Green Papers: Off Year Election 2001

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Governor:1(Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms)
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 1 and 2)
2000 Representatives:9(2.07% of 435)
2002 Representatives:9(2.07% of 435)
1990 Census: 4,877,203(1.96% of 248,765,170)
2000 Census: 5,700,037(2.02% of 281,998,273)
Registered Voters (Nov 98): 3,057,008
Estimated Voting age population (Jan 98): 4,120,000 
Tuesday, November 6, 2001 Polls Close: 8 pm EST / 7 PM CST (0100 UTC). The polls close at the same GMT/UTC time, that is, polls close at a particular local time in the advanced time zone and close one hour earlier local time in the lagging time zone.
Candidates seeking office
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Governor  Term limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms, Current Governors  
 Republican  Governor Don Sundquist
First elected: 1994; re-elected: 1998
Chair up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002. (The current Governor is affected by a term limit and CANNOT run in the next election for Governor).
 CandidateRepublican  (pending)
Representative Van Hilleary (House CD 4) has announced his intentions to run for governor.
Senate  6-year term, Current Senate  Senate Electoral Classes
Class 1Republican  Senator Bill Frist
First elected: 1994; re-elected 2000
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 7, 2006.
Class 2Republican  Senator Fred Thompson
First elected to finish out the term in a Special Election: 1994 [held to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Albert A. Gore, Jr. (Democrat): 1 January 1993- which Harlan Mathews (Democrat) had been appointed by Governor Ned R. McWherter (Democrat) to fill, 2 January 1993]; elected to a full term: 1996
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002. 2001 September 24: Senator Thompson announces he will run for re-election in 2002.
House of Representatives  2 year term, Current House  
Partisan Composition: 4 Democrats, 5 Republicans
CD 1Republican  Congressman William L. "Bill" Jenkins
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 2Republican  Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr.
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 3Republican  Congressman Zach Wamp
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 4Republican  Congressman William V. Hilleary
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
 

Added 28 May 2001: Representative Van Hilleary has announced his intentions to run for governor.

CD 5Democrat  Congressman Bob Clement
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 6Democrat  Congressman Bart Gordon
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 7Republican  Congressman Ed Bryant
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 8Democrat  Congressman John Tanner
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
CD 9Democrat  Congressman Harold E. Ford, Jr.
Seat up for election: Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
Congressional District

Tennessee has 95 counties and 9 congressional districts: 90 counties are wholly within a given congressional district; 5 counties are divided among more than one congressional district.

UNDIVIDED COUNTIES (wholly within one Congressional District):

  • CD # 1: Carter, Cocke, Greene, Hancock, Hawkins, Jefferson, Johnson, Sevier, Sullivan, Unicoi and Washington
  • CD # 2: Blount, Loudon, McMinn and Monroe
  • CD # 3: Anderson, Bledsoe, Grundy, Hamilton, Marion, Meigs, Morgan, Polk, Roane, Sequatchie and Van Buren
  • CD # 4: Bedford, Campbell, Claiborne, Coffee, Cumberland, Fentress, Franklin, Giles, Grainger, Hamblen, Hardin, Lawrence, Lincoln, Moore, Pickett, Rhea, Scott, Union, Warren, Wayne and White
  • CD # 6: Cannon, Clay, DeKalb, Jackson, Macon, Marshall, Overton, Putnam, Rutherford, Smith, Sumner, Trousdale, Williamson and Wilson
  • CD # 7: Cheatham, Chester, Decatur, Dickson, Fayette, Hardeman, Henderson, Hickman, Lewis, McNairy, Maury, Montgomery and Perry
  • CD # 8: Benton, Carroll, Crockett, Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, Henry, Houston, Humphreys, Lake, Lauderdale, Madison, Obion, Stewart, Tipton and Weakley

DIVIDED COUNTIES (split between more than one Congressional District):

  • Bradley: CDs 2 & 3
  • Davidson (coterminous with the City of Nashville): CDs 5 & 6
  • Knox: CDs 1, 2 & 4
  • Robertson: CDs 5 & 7
  • Shelby: CDs 7, 8 & 9

CD # 9 is wholly within Shelby County