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2016 Tennessee House of Representatives election

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99 Seats in the Tennessee House of Representatives 50 seats needed for a majority
Majority party Minority party   Leader Beth Harwell Craig Fitzhugh Party Republican Democratic Leader's seat 56th District 82nd District Last election 73 seats 26 seats Seats won 74 25 Seat change 1 1
Results:      Democratic gain      Republican gain      Democratic hold      Republican hold
Speaker of the House before election Beth Harwell Republican Elected Speaker of the House Beth Harwell Republican

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The 2016 Tennessee House of Representatives election was held on November 8, 2016, to elect 99 seats for the Tennessee House of Representatives. The elections coincided with the Presidential, U.S. House, and State Senate elections.

Republican Paul Sherrell flipped the rural 43rd district, and Republican Michael Curcio flipped the rural 69th district, while Democrat Dwayne Thompson flipped Memphis's suburban 96th district. The Republican Party maintained their supermajority in the state house. ^{[1] [2]}

Results summary

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Summary of the November 8, 2016 Tennessee House election results

Party		Candidates	Votes		Seats
			No.	%	No.	+/–
	Republican				74	1
	Democratic				25	1
	Independent				0
	Write-in				0
Total				100.00	99
Source: [1]

Popular vote Republican   % Democratic   % Independent   % Write-ins   %

House seats Republican   74.75% Democratic   25.25%

Close races

Results

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District	Incumbent			Results	Candidates
	Representative	Party	Electoral history
District 1		Republican			Y John Crawford (Republican)
District 2	Bud Hulsey	Republican	2014
District 3	Timothy Hill	Republican	2012
District 4	John Holsclaw Jr.	Republican	2014
District 5	David Hawk	Republican	2002	Incumbent won re-election.	Y David Hawk (Republican)
District 6	James Van Huss	Republican	2012
District 7	Matthew Hill	Republican	2004
District 8	Jerome Moon	Republican	2017
District 9		Republican
District 10		Republican
District 11	Jeremy Faison	Republican	2010	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Jeremy Faison (Republican)
District 12	Dale Carr	Republican	2012
District 13
District 14	Jason Zachary	Republican	2015
District 15	Rick Staples	Democratic	2016
District 16	Bill Dunn	Republican	1994
District 17	Andrew Farmer	Republican	2012
District 18	Martin Daniel	Republican	2014
District 19		Republican
District 20	Robert Ramsey	Republican	2008
District 21		Republican
District 22	Dan Howell	Republican	2014	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Dan Howell (Republican)
District 23		Republican
District 24		Republican
District 25	Cameron Sexton	Republican	2010
District 26		Republican
District 27	Patsy Hazlewood	Republican	2014	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Patsy Hazlewood (Republican)
District 28		Democratic
District 29	Mike Carter	Republican	2012	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Mike Carter (Republican)
District 30		Republican
District 31	Ron Travis	Republican	2012
District 32	Kent Calfee	Republican	2012	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Kent Calfee (Republican)
District 33	John Ragan	Republican	2010	Incumbent won re-election.	Y John Ragan (Republican)
District 34		Republican
District 35	Jerry Sexton	Republican	2014	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Jerry Sexton (Republican)
District 36	Dennis Powers	Republican	2010	Incumbent won re-election.
District 37		Republican
District 38	Kelly Keisling	Republican	2010	Incumbent won re-election.
District 39		Republican
District 40		Republican
District 41	John Windle	Democratic	1994	Incumbent won re-election.	Y John Windle (Democratic)
District 42	Ryan Williams	Republican	2010	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Ryan Williams (Republican)
District 43		Democratic
District 44	William Lamberth	Republican	2012	Incumbent won re-election.	Y William Lamberth (Republican)
District 45		Republican
District 46		Republican
District 47		Republican
District 48	Bryan Terry	Republican	2014
District 49	Mike Sparks	Republican	2010
District 50	Bo Mitchell	Democratic	2012	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Bo Mitchell (Democratic)
District 51	Bill Beck	Democratic	2014	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Bill Beck (Democratic)
District 52	Mike Stewart	Democratic	2008	Incumbent won re-election.
District 53	Jason Powell	Democratic	2012	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Jason Powell (Democratic)
District 54		Democratic
District 55	John Ray Clemmons	Democratic	2014	Incumbent won re-election.	Y John Ray Clemmons (Democratic)
District 56
District 57	Susan Lynn	Republican	2013	Incumbent won re-election.
District 58	Harold Love	Democratic	2012	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Harold Love (Democratic)
District 59		Democratic		Incumbent won re-election.
District 60		Democratic		Incumbent won re-election.	Y Darren Jernigan (Democratic)
District 61		Republican		Incumbent won re-election.
District 62	Pat Marsh	Republican	2009	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Pat Marsh (Republican)
District 63	Glen Casada	Republican	2002	Incumbent won re-election.
District 64		Republican		Incumbent won re-election.
District 65		Republican		Incumbent won re-election.
District 66	Sabi Kumar	Republican	2014	Incumbent won re-election.
District 67		Democratic		Incumbent won re-election.
District 68	Curtis Johnson	Republican	2004	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Curtis Johnson (Republican)
District 69		Democratic
District 70		Republican		Incumbent won re-election.
District 71	David Byrd	Republican	2014	Incumbent won re-election.	Y David Byrd (Republican)
District 72		Republican		Incumbent won re-election.
District 73		Republican		Incumbent won re-election.
District 74	Jay Reedy	Republican	2014	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Jay Reedy (Republican)
District 75		Republican		Incumbent won re-election.
District 76		Republican
District 77		Republican		Incumbent won re-election.
District 78	Mary Littleton	Republican	2012	Incumbent won re-election.
District 79	Curtis Halford	Republican	2008	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Curtis Halford (Republican)
District 80	Johnny Shaw	Democratic	2000	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Johnny Shaw (Democratic)
District 81	Debra Moody	Republican	2012	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Debra Moody (Republican)
District 82		Democratic
District 83	Mark White	Republican	2010	Incumbent won re-election.
District 84	Joe Towns Jr.	Democratic	1994	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Jo Towns Jr. (Democratic)
District 85		Democratic		Incumbent won re-election.
District 86	Barbara Cooper	Democratic	1996	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Barbara Cooper (Democratic)
District 87	Karen Camper	Democratic	2008	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Karen Camper (Democratic)
District 88	Larry Miller	Democratic	1994	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Larry Miller (Democratic)
District 89		Republican		Incumbent won re-election.
District 90		Democratic
District 91
District 92		Republican
District 93	G.A. Hardaway	Democratic	2006	Incumbent won re-election.	Y G.A. Hardaway (Democratic)
District 94		Republican		Incumbent won re-election.
District 95	Kevin Vaughan	Republican	2017	Incumbent won re-election.
District 96		Republican
District 97	Jim Coley	Republican	2006
District 98	Antonio Parkinson	Democratic	2011	Incumbent won re-election.	Y Antonio Parkinson (Democratic)
District 99		Republican

Retirements

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Democrats

Incumbents defeated

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Democrats

Independents

Detailed results by State House district

District 1

Republican primary

General election

District 2

Republican primary

Democratic primary

General election

District 3

Republican primary

General election

District 4

Republican primary

General election

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District 24

District 25

District 26

District 27

District 28

District 29

District 30

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District 32

District 33

District 34

District 35

District 36

District 37

District 38

District 39

District 40

District 41

District 42

District 43

District 44

District 45

District 46

District 47

District 48

District 49

District 50

District 51

District 52

District 53

District 54

District 55

District 56

District 57

District 58

District 59

District 60

District 61

District 62

District 63

District 64

District 65

District 66

District 67

District 68

District 69

District 70

District 71

District 72

District 73

District 74

District 75

District 76

District 77

District 78

District 79

District 80

District 81

District 82

District 83

District 84

District 85

District 86

District 87

District 88

District 89

District 90

District 91

District 92

District 93

District 94

District 95

District 96

District 97

District 98

District 99

See also

• 2016 Tennessee elections
• 2016 Tennessee Senate election

References