Tennessee

TENNESSEE

11 Electoral Votes

Population
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau)
Total Population, April 1, 2000                      5,689,283
Voting Age Population, Nov. 2000                 4,221,000   % change from '96 +5.3
Total Registration, June 2000                        3,000,737 (active)
(Tennessee does not register voters by party).
Tennessee has: 95 counties.
Largest counties: Shelby, Davidson, Knox, Hamilton, Rutherford.
Largest cities: Memphis, Nashville-Davidson, Knoxville, Chattanooga.

Government
Governor: Don Sundquist (R) re-elected in 1998.
State Legislature: Tennessee General Assembly House: 59D, 40R Senate: 18D, 15R
Local: Cities and Counties NACO Counties
U.S. House: 5R,4D - 1. B.Jenkins (R) | 2. J.Duncan (R) | 3. Z.Wamp (R) | 4. V.Hilleary (R) | 5. B.Clement (D) | 6. B.Gordon (D) | 7. E.Bryant (R) | 8. J.Tanner (D) | 9. H.Ford,Jr. (D).
U.S. Senate: Bill Frist (R) up for re-election in 2000, Fred Thompson (R) faces re-election in 2002.

Changes as of the November 2000 Elections
State Legislature: All 99 House seats and 16 of 33 Senate seats were up. Minimal change occured; Democrats held onto the Senate. House: 58D, 40R Senate: 18D, 15R.
U.S. House: No changes in the delegation.
U.S. Senate: Bill Frist (R) re-elected.

State of Tennessee
Department of State

Constitution Party of TN
Libertarian Party of TN
Natural Law Party of TN
TN Democratic Party
TN Green Party
TN Reform Party
TN Republican Party

The Tennessean
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Politics1-TN

The Volunteer State

General Election -- Tuesday, November 7, 2000

Past Results
1996

Clinton (Dem.).......909,146	(48.00)
Dole (Rep.)............863,530	(45.59)
Perot (Ind.)...........105,918	(5.59)
Others (7+scat.)......16,111	(0.85)
Total........1,894,105

399,317 early votes/1,918,156 total votes-20.82%

1992

Clinton (Dem.).......933,521 (47.08)

Bush (Rep.)...........841,300 (42.43)

Perot (Ind.)............199,968
(10.08)

Others (11+w/ins)......7,849
(0.40)

Total........1,982,638

Results
2000

Gore/Lieberman (Dem.)	981,720	(47.28)
+Bush/Cheney (Rep.)	1,061,949	(51.14)
C.G.Brown/S.Allen (Ind.)	1,606	(0.08)
Browne/Olivier (Lib.)	4,284	(0.21)
Buchanan/Foster (Ref.)	4,250	(0.20)
Hagelin/Goldhaber (Ref.)	613	(0.03)
Nader/LaDuke (Grn.)	19,781	(0.95)
Phillips/Frazier (Ind.)	1,015	(0.04)
R.Venson/G.Kelly (Ind.)	535	(0.03)
Write-Ins	428	(0.02)
Total........2,076,181

15-day early voting period: Oct. 18-Nov. 2, 2000.
749,170 early votes / 2,100,241 total votes (35.67%).
There were also 47,954 absentee by mail voters.

Overview
Vice President Gore represented Tennessee for 16 years as a congressman and Senator. He still owns a farm in Carthage near where his mother lives. He moved his national campaign headquarters to Nashville from Washington, DC in October 1999. However, he still could not carry his home state; Gov. Bush won with a plurality of 80,299 votes (3.86 percentage points), carrying 59 counties to 36 for Gore.
General Election Activity

State primary held August 3, 2000

Presidential Preference Primary: Tuesday, March 14, 2000

Republican Primary

	Total Vote	Percent
Gary Bauer	1,305	0.52%
+George W. Bush	193,166	77.02%
Steve Forbes	1,018	0.41%
Orrin Hatch	252	0.10%
Alan Keyes	16,916	6.74%
John McCain	36,436	14.53%
Uncommitted	1,632	0.65%
Write-In	75	0.03%
Total	250,800

Total Delegates
37 of 2,066 (1.8%).

Democratic Primary

	Total Vote	Percent
Bill Bradley	11,323	5.26%
+Al Gore	198,264	92.13%
Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.	1,031	0.48%
Uncommitted	4,407	2.05%
Write-In	178	0.08%
Total	215,203

Total Pledged Delegates
68 of 3,537 (1.9%).
Total Delegates
81 of 4,335 (1.9%).