Chattanooga: who represents it, and who is running
U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects governor (open; Bill Lee term-limited); U.S. Senator (Hagerty seat); U.S. Representative TN-3; Tennessee Senate District 11 (SD-10, City Hall's district, is not up until 2028); Tennessee House Districts 26-30; three state constitutional amendments. No City of Chattanooga office is on this ballot (other Hamilton County municipalities — Collegedale, East Ridge, Lakesite, Red Bank, Ridgeside, Signal Mountain, Soddy-Daisy, Walden — have races on it)..
Holding office17
the sitting council
On the ballot35
4 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Chattanooga is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): Tennessee's 3rd congressional district (Chattanooga City Hall); the whole city is in TN-3 on the 2026 map — Chuck Fleischmann (Republican)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tim Kelly Elected | Mayor | Independent | City of Chattanooga |
2
City Court Judge
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sherry Paty Elected | City Court Judge | Independent | City Court, Division 1 | Hamilton County Election Commission |
3
Council Member
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chip Henderson Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 1 | City of Chattanooga |
| Cody Harvey Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 4 | City of Chattanooga |
| Dennis Clark Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 5 | City of Chattanooga |
| Jeff Davis Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 3 | City of Chattanooga |
| Jenni Berz Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 6 | City of Chattanooga |
| Jenny Hill Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 2 | City of Chattanooga |
| Marvene Noel Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 8 | City of Chattanooga |
| Raquetta Dotley Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 7 | City of Chattanooga |
| Ron Elliott Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 9 | City of Chattanooga |
4
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Lee Elected | Governor | Republican | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Marsha Blackburn Elected | U.S. Senator → Running for Governor | Republican | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov not fetched | |
| Charles Van Morgan | Governor Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Dave Seeman | Governor Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| David Hatley | Governor Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Dean Brewer | Governor Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Eddie Lee Murphy | Governor Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Jerri Green | Governor Running | Democratic | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Karl Knox Smithson | Governor Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| L. Webb Taylor | Governor Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Lauren Pinkston | Governor Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Misam Abidi | Governor Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Ray Brown | Governor Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Robert C. Vick | Governor Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Victor L. Scoggin | Governor Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Wendell Jackson | Governor Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission |
5
State Representative — HD-28
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yusuf A. Hakeem Elected | State Representative → Running | Democratic | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Demetrus "Meechie" Coonrod | State Representative Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Johnny Horne | State Representative Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission |
6
State Senator — SD-10
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Todd Gardenhire Elected | State Senator | Republican | Hamilton County Election Commission |
7
U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bill Hagerty Elected | U.S. Senator → Running | Republican | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov not fetched | |
| Andrew Gerena | U.S. Senator Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Catherine Barcel "Barcy" Whitson | U.S. Senator Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| David Sutman, Jr. | U.S. Senator Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| James William Macon III | U.S. Senator Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Jeremy Dean Hearn | U.S. Senator Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Marquita Bradshaw | U.S. Senator Running | Democratic | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Robert Jones | U.S. Senator Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Tharon Chandler | U.S. Senator Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Yoshi D. Matthews | U.S. Senator Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission |
8
U.S. Representative — TN-3
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chuck Fleischmann Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Republican | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Anna Golladay | U.S. Representative Running | Democratic | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Dean Arnold | U.S. Representative Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Donnie Lynn Ownby | U.S. Representative Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Edward John Roland | U.S. Representative Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Jean Howard-Hill | U.S. Representative Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission | |
| Rodney Joe King | U.S. Representative Running | Independent | Hamilton County Election Commission |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Municipal: Mayor Tim Kelly (chattanooga.gov Mayor's Office) and the nine City Council members (Districts 1-9) from https://chattanooga.gov/government/city-council, retrieved 2026-10-22, cross-checked name-for-name against the Hamilton County Election Commission's Current Elected Officials list (last updated September 4, 2026), which marks the Mayor non-partisan and gives every term as 4 years with next election March 2029. Chair Jeff Davis (D3) and Vice Chair Ron Elliott (D9) per the council page card labels. The council page prints only the shared Council-Clerk@chattanooga.gov address and office phone lines, so email is null and no phone is recorded. City Court Judge Sherry Paty (Division 1) is included as an elected city office (county list, next election May 2030). Jenni Berz's standsFor is quoted from her own first-person statement on the council page; the other bios are written in the third person and are not used.
- Next City of Chattanooga election: March 2029 (Mayor and all nine council districts), per the county's Current Elected Officials list; the exact date is not yet on an official calendar read here. The last municipal election was March 4, 2025, with a runoff April 8, 2025 (the county's 2025 Election Archive lists official results for both dates).
- Congressional and state districts: TIGERweb (tigerweb.geo.census.gov) rejected the ResearchUpon User-Agent with a WAF 'Request Rejected' page, even for robots.txt, so the city polygon could not be grid-sampled the way Memphis was. Instead a 12x12 point grid over the city's bounding box was run through the Census geocoder coordinates endpoint (Current_Current vintage), keeping only the 51 points the geocoder places in 'Chattanooga city' (GEOID 4714000): 120th Congress (2026 map) TN-3 51/51; 2026 State Senate SD-11 27, SD-10 24; 2026 State House HD-28 19, HD-26 15, HD-27 10, HD-30 4, HD-29 3. City Hall (geocoded to -85.30786, 35.04342) is in TN-3, SD-10 and HD-28. The Hamilton County Current Elected Officials list names only Chuck Fleischmann (R-3) for the sitting U.S. House, so the city is also wholly TN-3 on the sitting map. Only City Hall's state districts are recorded as people, per the brief.
- Other state races on Chattanooga ballots (names from the sample ballot, not recorded as people because the seats do not contain City Hall): SD-11 Bo Watson (R, sitting per county list) v Tim Roberts (D); HD-26 Greg Martin (R, sitting) unopposed; HD-27 Michele Reneau (R, sitting) v Paige Quirin (D); HD-29 Greg Vital (R, sitting) v Ryan V. Scofield (D); HD-30 Esther Helton Haynes (R, sitting; county list prints 'Esther Helton-Haynes') v Art Rymer (D).
- Candidates: from the Hamilton County Election Commission's Official Sample Ballot for the November 3, 2026 State & Federal General Election (https://elect.hamiltontn.gov/Portals/12/HTML/GenSample.html, Ballot ID G155, 'SAMPLE / PROOFING SET', linked from the commission's Sample Ballots page), retrieved 2026-10-22. Party labels as printed are kept in ballotParty. The Tennessee Secretary of State's 2026 candidate lists (sos.tn.gov/elections/2026-candidate-lists) could not be read: sos.tn.gov returned a CloudFront 403 'Request blocked' to the ResearchUpon User-Agent on robots.txt itself, so nothing on that host (or its file host) was fetched and no other User-Agent was tried. The county ballot is an official list but not the state's certified list; the statewide names match the Memphis record's reading of the SOS lists exactly (Governor 15, U.S. Senate 10). Write-ins skipped; primary losers excluded.
- Governor (open): Marsha Blackburn (R; sitting U.S. Senator), Jerri Green (D; sitting Memphis City Council member) and 13 independents. U.S. Senate: Bill Hagerty (R, inc.), Marquita Bradshaw (D) and 8 independents. TN-3: Chuck Fleischmann (R, inc.), Anna Golladay (D) and 5 independents. HD-28: Yusuf A. Hakeem (D, inc.), Demetrus "Meechie" Coonrod (Ind.), Johnny Horne (Ind.).
- counts: elected = people currently in office (incl. incumbent-running); running = people on the 2026 ballot (incl. incumbent-running); unopposed = 0 among recorded races (HD-26, not recorded, has one candidate).
- State officeholders: capitol.tn.gov robots.txt allows only named bots, so no General Assembly page was fetched; SD-10 Todd Gardenhire, HD-28 Yusuf A. Hakeem and Governor Bill Lee are from the Hamilton County Election Commission's Current Elected Officials list (an official county list). The legislator 'website' fields are the wapp.capitol.tn.gov links that county page prints, not pages read here.
- Robots/terms: elect.hamiltontn.gov (robots.txt is only Cloudflare content-signal definitions, no signal set and no Disallow; no terms page on the site), chattanooga.gov (Drupal robots, only admin/search/user paths disallowed; privacy-policy-disclosures page states no reuse terms; photos linked, not copied), house.gov (Drupal robots; /representatives allowed), unitedstates.github.io (no robots.txt; data CC0), geocoding.geo.census.gov (no robots.txt; public Census service). Blocked: sos.tn.gov (CloudFront 403), tigerweb.geo.census.gov (WAF reject). Not fetched: capitol.tn.gov, senate.gov.
- No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. Wikipedia, Ballotpedia and news were not used.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- Hamilton County Election Commission — Official Sample Ballot, State & Federal General Election, November 3, 2026 (Ballot ID G155) 31
- Hamilton County Election Commission — Current Elected Officials (last updated September 4, 2026) 4
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov not fetched 2
- City of Chattanooga — City Council (card label: 'District One') 1
- City of Chattanooga — City Council (card label: 'District Four') 1
- City of Chattanooga — City Council (card label: 'District Five') 1
- City of Chattanooga — City Council (card label: 'District Three, Chairman') 1
- City of Chattanooga — City Council (card label: 'District Six') 1
- City of Chattanooga — City Council (card label: 'District Two') 1
- City of Chattanooga — City Council (card label: 'District Eight') 1
- City of Chattanooga — City Council (card label: 'District Seven') 1
- City of Chattanooga — City Council (card label: 'District Nine, Vice Chair') 1
- City of Chattanooga — Mayor's Office 1
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives (Tennessee 3rd: 'Fleischmann, Charles', R) 1