The midterms get a lot of national attention. But the Knox County primary actually will determine winners. Get yourself ...

Local candidates were knocked off the ballot or dropped out because of their voting history. Here's a look at the bylaws.

After Republican Matt Van Epps cruised comfortably to victory Dec. 2 in a Middle Tennessee special election for Congress, the 13-point advantage Donald Trump racked up in the same district little more ...

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said Republicans have “a real problem” after the party eked out a narrow victory in a ruby red Tennessee district in Tuesday’s special election. “I’m always concerned, to ...

A closely watched Tennessee special congressional election on Tuesday, Dec. 2, had Nashville and the entire nation on edge. While the GOP ultimately declared victory, it revealed that Democrats in the ...

Voter turnout is important for Republican and Democratic primary elections. A candidate may only need a small number of votes ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn., (WJHL) – In the summer of 1920, a young Tennessee state representative named Harry T. Burns cast his vote against the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, allowing women the ...

The Tennessee special election is reviving a long-simmering debate between the progressive and moderate wings of the Democratic Party over what kind of candidates to nominate. Democrat Aftyn Behn fell ...

Democrats waltzed into Tennessee and tried to swipe the seat held by Former Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., this week. Winning special elections for House seats is a delicate dance. But Rep.-elect Matt Van ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn.(AP) — As a leader of the College Democrats at Vanderbilt University, Luci Wingo knew the odds of a Democrat winning one of Nashville's three U.S. House seats weren't great. Yet her ...

WASHINGTON ‒ Republicans avoided a major Democratic upset in a closely watched Tennessee special congressional election that turned into a surprisingly tight race in an overwhelmingly red district.

There’s this thing in politics where people scramble to find something “good” to talk about for their side, no matter how bad reality happens to be. It’s like someone being blown up in a terrorist ...