Tennessee 2005 Off Year Elections

The Green Papers: Tennessee 2005 Off Year Elections

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Tennessee
Elections for Statewide offices and Congress

Electoral Votes:	11	(2.04% of 538)
Governor:	1
Senators:	2	(Electoral Classes 1 and 2)
2002-2010 Representatives:	9	(2.07% of 435)
2000 Census:	5,700,037	(2.02% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):	4,221,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):	3,181,108
Capital:	Nashville

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Tennessee State and Local Government



U.S. Senate 6 year term. No Term Limit. 109^th Senate Senate Electoral Classes

Class 1	Republican	Senator Bill Frist • First elected: 1994; re-elected 2000 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006 • Open Seat - 9 March 2005: Media reports state that Senator Frist will announce that he is not a candidate for re-election in 2006.
	Democratic	(pending) • Possible candidate: Congressman Harold E. Ford, Jr. (CD 9)

Class 2	Republican	Senator Lamar Alexander • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008

Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2002, 2006. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms. GOVERNOR is the only Statewide elected officer, All Governors

	Democratic	Governor Phil Bredesen • First elected: 2002 • Chair up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006 • The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.

109^th U.S. House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 109^th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition): 4 Republican (4 Undetermined); 5 Democratic (4 Undetermined, 1 Open)

CD 1	Republican	Congressman William L. "Bill" Jenkins • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 2	Republican	Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr. • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 3	Republican	Congressman Zach Wamp • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 4	Democratic	Congressman Lincoln Davis • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 5	Democratic	Congressman Jim Cooper • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 6	Democratic	Congressman Bart Gordon • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 7	Republican	Congressman Marsha Blackburn • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 8	Democratic	Congressman John S. Tanner • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

CD 9	Democratic	Congressman Harold E. Ford, Jr. • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006 • Open Seat - 9 March 2005: Congressman Ford announces his intentions to run for Senator Bill Frist's Class 1 seat in 2006.

Political Parties Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

	• Democratic
	• Green
	• Libertarian
	• Not readily classifiable
	• Republican