Memphis: 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. Representatives for TN-5, TN-8 and TN-9 (2026 map); Tennessee Senate Districts 29, 31 and 33 (SD-30 and SD-32 also cover parts of the city but are not up); Tennessee House Districts 83-88, 91, 93 and 96-98 within the city; three state constitutional amendments; three City of Memphis Charter referendums (Ordinances No. 5966 civil-service exemptions, No. 5977 lobbyist registration, No. 5978 civil-service appeal procedures). No City of Memphis office (Mayor, Council, judges) is on this ballot..

Holding office24

the sitting council

On the ballot42

6 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Memphis is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): Tennessee's 5th congressional district (Memphis City Hall, 125 N. Main St.) on the map adopted by the General Assembly in May 2026 and on the November 3, 2026 ballot; Tennessee's 9th under the sitting 119th-Congress map. The city is split among TN-5, TN-9 and TN-8 on the 2026 map and between TN-9 and TN-8 on the sitting map — Steve Cohen (Democratic)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Paul Young ✉️ Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of Memphis

Council Member

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Chase Carlisle ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	Super District 9, Position 1	City of Memphis
Dr. Jeff Warren ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	Super District 9, Position 3	City of Memphis
Edmund Ford, Sr. ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 6	City of Memphis
J. Ford Canale ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	Super District 9, Position 2	City of Memphis
Jana Swearengen Washington ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 4	City of Memphis
Janika White ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	Super District 8, Position 2	City of Memphis
JB Smiley, Jr. ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	Super District 8, Position 1	City of Memphis
Michalyn Easter-Thomas ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 7	City of Memphis
Pearl Eva Walker ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 3	City of Memphis
Philip Spinosa ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 5	City of Memphis
Rhonda Logan ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	District 1	City of Memphis
Yolanda Cooper-Sutton ✉️ Elected	Council Member	Independent	Super District 8, Position 3	City of Memphis

Governor — statewide

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Jerri Green ✉️ Elected	Council Member → Running for Governor	Independent	statewide	City of Memphis

Municipal Court Judge

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Jayne Chandler Elected	Municipal Court Judge	Independent	Municipal Court, Division 3	City of Memphis
Kenya Hooks Elected	Municipal Court Judge	Independent	Municipal Court, Division 1	City of Memphis
Varonica R. Cooper Elected	Municipal Court Judge	Independent	Municipal Court, Division 2	City of Memphis

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Bill Lee Elected	Governor	Republican	Office of the Governor (tn.gov)
Marsha Blackburn Elected	U.S. Senator → Running for Governor	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov not used (403 in earlier runs)
Charles Van Morgan	Governor Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Dave Seeman	Governor Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
David Hatley	Governor Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Dean Brewer	Governor Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Eddie Lee Murphy	Governor Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Karl Knox Smithson	Governor Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
L. Webb Taylor	Governor Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Lauren Pinkston	Governor Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Misam Abidi	Governor Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Ray Brown	Governor Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Robert C. Vick	Governor Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Victor L. Scoggin	Governor Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Wendell Jackson	Governor Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State

State Senator — SD-29

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Raumesh Akbari Elected acclaimed unofficial	State Senator → Running	Democratic		Tennessee Secretary of State

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Bill Hagerty Elected	U.S. Senator → Running	Republican	@unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov not used (403 in earlier runs)
Andrew Gerena	U.S. Senator Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Catherine Barcel "Barcy" Whitson	U.S. Senator Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
David Sutman, Jr.	U.S. Senator Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
James William Macon III	U.S. Senator Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Jeremy Dean Hearn	U.S. Senator Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Marquita Bradshaw	U.S. Senator Running	Democratic	Tennessee Secretary of State
Robert Jones	U.S. Senator Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Tharon Chandler	U.S. Senator Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Yoshi D. Matthews	U.S. Senator Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TN-5

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Charlie Hatcher	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Tennessee Secretary of State
Chaz Molder	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Tennessee Secretary of State
James A. Johnson	U.S. Representative Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Micheál (Me-Haul) O'Leary	U.S. Representative Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TN-8

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
David Kustoff Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican	U.S. House of Representatives
Adam D. Austill	U.S. Representative Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Antonio Futch	U.S. Representative Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Heidi Kuhn	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Tennessee Secretary of State
Henry J. Ward, III	U.S. Representative Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Horace Taylor	U.S. Representative Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Pamela Jeanine "P." Moses	U.S. Representative Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Wendell "Wells" Blankenship	U.S. Representative Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — TN-9

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Steve Cohen Elected	U.S. Representative	Democratic	U.S. House of Representatives
Justin J. Pearson Elected unofficial	State Representative → Running for U.S. Representative	Democratic	Tennessee Secretary of State
Brent Taylor	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Tennessee Secretary of State
Dennis Clark	U.S. Representative Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State
Michelle Davis Head	U.S. Representative Running	Independent	Tennessee Secretary of State

Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

Municipal: Mayor Paul Young (Meet Our Mayor page) and all 13 City Council members (7 single-member districts, Super Districts 8 and 9 with three positions each) from https://memphistn.gov/city-council/, retrieved 2026-10-22; no vacancy shown. Official @memphistn.gov emails as printed on the page; office phone numbers not recorded. Seat for each card from its own district-page link and district-map PDF (JB Smiley, Jr.'s card links /super-district-8-1/, absent from the council sitemap; seat from his map file). The three Municipal Court Judges (memphistn.gov/municipal-court-judges/) are included because the offices are elected city-wide on the 2027 municipal ballot. The City Court Clerk is also a Memphis office, but its page (memphistn.gov/city-court-clerk/) names no officeholder, so no row is recorded. Memphis elections are non-partisan; party null.
Next City of Memphis election: Municipal Election Thursday, October 7, 2027 (Mayor, Council Districts 1-7, Super Districts 8 and 9 Positions 1-3, Municipal Judge Divisions 1-3), run-off Thursday, November 18, 2027 if required; qualifying deadline July 15, 2027 noon. Source: Shelby County Election Commission, 'City of Memphis Municipal Election October 7, 2027' key dates PDF (https://www.electionsshelbytn.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/2027-City-of-Memphis-October-7-2027-Mun-Elec-Key-Dates-inter44.pdf). The November 3, 2026 ballot carries three City of Memphis Charter referendums but no city offices.
Congressional districts: Memphis city polygon (TIGERweb Incorporated Places, GEOID 4748000) sampled on a 120x120 grid (8,383 points inside) against TIGERweb Legislative layer 4 (119th Congress, sitting map): TN-9 7,972, TN-8 410; and layer 0 (120th Congress = Tennessee's May 2026 map, used on the November 2026 ballot): TN-5 3,822, TN-9 2,320, TN-8 2,241. The Shelby County Election Commission home page says 'The General Assembly has adopted revised congressional districts during the Second Extraordinary Session of the 114th General Assembly held in May 2026'. Census geocoder puts City Hall (125 N Main St) in TN-5 on the 120th layer. Sitting members Cohen (TN-9) and Kustoff (TN-8) are listed as elected; the sitting TN-5 member (Andrew Ogles) represents no part of Memphis on the sitting map and is not listed; TN-5 appears as candidates only.
State legislative districts covering the city (2026 layers, same grid): Senate 29 (3,283 pts), 30 (1,956), 33 (1,864), 31 (820), 32 (458); House 86, 97, 84, 91, 96, 98, 87, 85, 93, 88, 83 (11 districts). Only City Hall's districts (SD-29, HD-86) are recorded as people, per the brief.
Sitting U.S. Representatives from https://www.house.gov/representatives (Tennessee table), retrieved 2026-10-22. U.S. Senators from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json (senate.gov not fetched; it returned 403 in earlier runs). No federal photos linked.
State officeholders: capitol.tn.gov robots.txt allows only SiteimproveBot and Googlebot, so no General Assembly page was fetched. SD-29 Raumesh Akbari and HD-86 Justin J. Pearson are taken from the Tennessee Secretary of State's certified results (2022-11-08 Total Results; 2024-11-05 General by Office) and marked "unofficial": true. Governor Bill Lee from tn.gov (robots 'Allow: /'), party from the 2022 certified Governor results.
Candidates: from the Tennessee Secretary of State's official 2026 candidate lists for the November 3, 2026 General Election (https://sos.tn.gov/elections/2026-candidate-lists; Governor, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, Tennessee Senate, Tennessee House PDFs, retrieved 2026-10-22). sos.tn.gov answered normally this run (robots.txt allows /elections). Cross-checked name-for-name against the Shelby County Election Commission's 'Nov 3 2026 Official Sample' ballot (posted 2026-09), whose party labels are kept in ballotParty. The state lists print each candidate's city of residence; it is not recorded. Write-ins skipped; primary losers excluded.
Governor 2026 (open): Marsha Blackburn (R; sitting U.S. Senator), Jerri Green (D; sitting Memphis City Council District 2) and 13 independents. U.S. Senate: Bill Hagerty (R, inc.), Marquita Bradshaw (D) and 8 independents. TN-5: Charlie Hatcher (R), Chaz Molder (D), 2 independents. TN-8: David Kustoff (R, inc.), Heidi Kuhn (D), 6 independents. TN-9 (open; Steve Cohen not on the list): Brent Taylor (R; also SD-31 nominee), Justin J. Pearson (D; also HD-86 nominee), 2 independents. SD-29: Raumesh Akbari (D, inc.) alone. HD-86: Justin J. Pearson (D, inc.) alone. Candidates on two lists (Blackburn, Green, Pearson, Taylor) have one row each, with the second race in runningFor or alsoRunningFor.
counts: elected = people currently in office (incl. incumbent-running); running = people on a 2026 list; unopposed = 2 (SD-29 and HD-86, City Hall's state seats, each with one printed candidate).
Robots/terms: memphistn.gov (Yoast robots, all allowed, Crawl-delay 10 honoured; no reuse terms stated; photos linked, not copied), electionsshelbytn.gov (shelbyvote.com redirects there; WordPress robots disallows only /wp-admin/, Crawl-delay 10 honoured), sos.tn.gov (Drupal robots, /elections allowed) and its file host sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com (no robots.txt; S3 AccessDenied on /robots.txt), house.gov (allows), tn.gov (Allow: /), geocoding.geo.census.gov and tigerweb.geo.census.gov (public Census services), unitedstates.github.io (CC0). Not fetched: capitol.tn.gov (robots), senate.gov.
No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor null for everyone (no candidate statements read). Wikipedia, Ballotpedia and news were not used.

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.