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Tennessee’s gerrymandered election maps hold up, but not as well as in past cycles

States Newsroom · November 13, 2026

Tennessee Republicans won the popular vote in down-ballot races last week, but gerrymandering allowed them to win even more seats than vote totals would have indicated. The GOP received around 54% of the vote in Tennessee’s nine congressional races while likely winning eight of them, or 89% of the seats, an analysis…

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Tennessee’s gerrymandered election maps hold up, but not as well as in past cycles

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