Washington (AP) – More than a dozen candidates will compete on Tuesday for the nominations of their parties to occupy a free seat in Tennessee in the congress in a closely divided US house.
In a special election on December 2, the winners will replace the Republican former US representative Mark Green, who resigned in July to work in the private sector. The competition in the state -reliable republican 7th congress district will probably temporarily paddle the close advantage of the GOP in the chamber. A free seat in a strongly democratic district in the Houston region in Texas will be filled in November.
The eleven candidates who apply for the nominated Republicans include the state representatives Jody Barrett, Gino Bulso and Lee Reeves, the former commissioner of the General Services of Tennessee, Matt van Epps, President Donald Trump and Green and Montgomery County Commissioner Jason Knight. The field also includes the businessman of the healthcare industry, Mason Foley; Real estate businessman Stewart Parks, whom Trump pardoned on January 6, 2021 for his actions in the US Capitol; and the former analyst of the Senate of the Senate, TRE WITTUM, who previously lost the primary elections of the US Senator Marsha Blackburn in 2024 and the US representatives of Andy Ogles in 2022.
State Reps. Aftertyn Behn, Vincent Dixie and Bo Mitchell and businessman Darden Copeland are looking for democratic nomination.
Van Epps led the Republican field in campaign contributions, with around $ 359,000 collecting until mid-September. Reeves and Parks collected almost 270,000 US dollars and Barrett almost 242,000 dollars. Nevertheless, Van Epps was triggered by a huge part of the field thanks to huge loans that made several candidates for their own campaigns. Bulso borrowed almost 494,000 US dollars to his campaign. Foley awarded his campaign 325,000 US dollars, while Reeves borrowed his committee 300,000 US dollars and Parks was 67,000 US dollars.
In democratic competition with around 335,000 US dollars of contributions and $ 100,000 dollars, Copeland collected the most of the candidate. He had most of his transport on September 17th. At that time, Mitchell had collected around 203,000 US dollars for his campaign and made less than half of them available to output the campaign.
Most of the 7th district has only chosen Republicans for congress for more than a dozen years. The district also includes parts of the strongly democratic Davidson County in which Nashville is located. The area of ​​Nashville once anchored a separate congress district that is low-cost for Democrats, but the Republicans of the states in 2022 redesigned the lines and divided Davidson County into the 7th and two neighboring Republican districts.
Trump bore the 7th district in 2024 with around 60% of the votes compared to around 38% for the then Vice President Kamala Harris, the democratic candidate. Harris received almost 68% of the vote in the share of Davidson County’s 7th district, which was about 22% of the total votes in the district. Trump wore each of the remaining 13 counties with at least 59% of the votes.
Montgomery County made up in the Presidential race 2024, the largest share of a district in the district, about 24% of the district votes.
Green was chosen twice below the elderly and recent district borders. According to the elderly lines, he received between 67% and 70% of the votes. He won with 60% of the votes in the context of the current lines in 2022 and 2024. He never ran in a competitive primary among the current limits.
The Associated Press does not make projections and only explains a winner if it is found that there is no scenario that enables the follow -up candidates to close the gap. If a breed has not been called, the AP will continue to cover all the latest developments such as candidate concessions or victory clearations. The AP will make it clear that he has not yet explained a winner and explains why.
In Tennessee, recovery are only held in court as part of a legal contestation. There are no automatic stories, and the loss of candidates may not require any retention. The AP can declare a winner in a race that is subject to a post -count if it can find that the leadership is too huge to receive a recording or a legal challenge in order to change the result.
Here is a look at what you can expect on Tuesday:
Special primary day
The special primary school in the 7th congress district of Tennessee will take place on Tuesday. Surveys in the district close at 7 p.m. local time, 8 p.m. Although Tennessee is located in two time zones, the 7th district falls completely into the central time zone.
What is on the ballot?
The AP will provide voting results and explain a winner in the special congress primary school.
Who can vote?
Tennessee does not register the voters according to party, which in other countries usually means that a registered voter decides to coordinate in the primary school of a party. A rarely enforced law of 1972 states that primary voters must be “connected” or a “disgusting” member of a party in order to coordinate in the primary center of this party, and a law of 2023 obliges the local election officers to publish signs on polling stations who say this. But these terms are not clearly defined. The law was with several legal challenges, but a federal court dismissed the complaint in 2024.
What are the turnout and pre -selection?
In August 2024, more than 469,000 registered voters in the 7th congress district provided more than 469,000. The turnout was about 7% of registered voters in the Republican US house in the US house and about 5% in the democratic primary school. Both primary elections were undisputed.
Among the 14 counties, which were either completely or in part within the 7th district, about 58% of the primary voting slips 2024 were abolished early by personal or absent voters.
From Thursday, almost 18,000 democratic primary votes and a little more than 18,000 Republican primary votes were given before the special primary school.
How long does the vote recording normally take?
In the 2024 parliamentary elections, the AP reported the results of the 7th district at 8:03 p.m. ET from Perry County for the first time three minutes after completing the surveys. The table of the election night ended at 12.36 p.m. ET with more than 99% of the total votes.
Are we already there?
From Tuesday, 56 days and 392 days up to the intermediate elections 2026 will be up to the special elections on December 2 in the 7th district.
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