Nashville: 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-4, TN-6 and TN-7 (2026 map); Tennessee Senate Districts 17, 19, 21; Tennessee House Districts 50-56 and 58-60; three state constitutional amendments; Belle Meade, Forest Hills and Goodlettsville city commissioners (satellite cities). No Metropolitan Government (Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council) office is on this ballot..
Holding office50
the sitting council
On the ballot39
5 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Nashville is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): Tennessee's 6th congressional district (Historic Metro Courthouse, the Metro Courthouse) on the 2026 map; Davidson County is split among TN-7, TN-5 and TN-6 under the sitting 119th-Congress map and among TN-7, TN-4 and TN-6 under the map adopted by the General Assembly in May 2026 (on the November 3, 2026 ballot) — Andrew Ogles (Republican)
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Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freddie O'Connell Elected | Mayor | Independent | Metro Nashville |
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Council Member
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antoinette Lee ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 33 | Metro Nashville |
| Brandon Taylor ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 21 | Metro Nashville |
| Brenda Gadd ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 24 | Metro Nashville |
| Burkley Allen ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | At-Large | Metro Nashville |
| Clay Capp ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 6 | Metro Nashville |
| Courtney Johnston ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 26 | Metro Nashville |
| David Benton ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 28 | Metro Nashville |
| Delishia Porterfield ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | At-Large | Metro Nashville |
| Deonté Harrell ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 8 | Metro Nashville |
| Emily Benedict ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 7 | Metro Nashville |
| Erin Evans ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 12 | Metro Nashville |
| Ginny Welsch ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 16 | Metro Nashville |
| Jacob Kupin ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 19 | Metro Nashville |
| Jason Spain ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 35 | Metro Nashville |
| Jeff Eslick ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 11 | Metro Nashville |
| Jeff Gregg ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 15 | Metro Nashville |
| Jeff Preptit ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 25 | Metro Nashville |
| Jennifer Frensley Webb ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 10 | Metro Nashville |
| Jennifer Gamble ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 3 | Metro Nashville |
| John Rutherford ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 31 | Metro Nashville |
| Jordan Huffman ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 14 | Metro Nashville |
| Joy Kimbrough ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 1 | Metro Nashville |
| Joy Styles ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 32 | Metro Nashville |
| Kyonzté Toombs ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 2 | Metro Nashville |
| Mike Cortese ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 4 | Metro Nashville |
| Olivia Hill ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | At-Large | Metro Nashville |
| Quin Evans Segall ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | At-Large | Metro Nashville |
| Robert Nash ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 27 | Metro Nashville |
| Rollin Horton ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 20 | Metro Nashville |
| Russ Bradford ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 13 | Metro Nashville |
| Sandra Sepulveda ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 30 | Metro Nashville |
| Sandy Ewing ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 34 | Metro Nashville |
| Sean Parker ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 5 | Metro Nashville |
| Sheri Weiner ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 22 | Metro Nashville |
| Tasha Ellis ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 29 | Metro Nashville |
| Terry Vo ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 17 | Metro Nashville |
| Thom Druffel ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 23 | Metro Nashville |
| Tom Cash ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 18 | Metro Nashville |
| Tonya Hancock ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | District 9 | Metro Nashville |
| Zulfat Suara ✉️ Elected | Council Member | Independent | At-Large | Metro Nashville |
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Vice Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angie Emery Henderson Elected | Vice Mayor | Independent | county-wide | Metro Nashville |
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Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | 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 returns HTTP 403 | |
| Charles Van Morgan | Governor Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Dave Seeman | Governor Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| David Hatley | Governor Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Dean Brewer | Governor Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Eddie Lee Murphy | Governor Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Jerri Green | Governor Running | Democratic | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Karl Knox Smithson | Governor Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| L. Webb Taylor | Governor Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Lauren Pinkston | Governor Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Misam Abidi | Governor Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Ray Brown | Governor Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Robert C. Vick | Governor Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Victor L. Scoggin | Governor Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Wendell Jackson | Governor Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission |
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State Representative — HD-51
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aftyn Behn Elected acclaimed unofficial | State Representative → Running | Democratic | Davidson County Election Commission |
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State Senator — SD-21
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Yarbro Elected acclaimed unofficial | State Senator → Running | Democratic | Davidson County Election Commission |
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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 returns HTTP 403 | |
| Andrew Gerena | U.S. Senator Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Catherine Barcel "Barcy" Whitson | U.S. Senator Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| David Sutman, Jr. | U.S. Senator Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| James William Macon III | U.S. Senator Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Jeremy Dean Hearn | U.S. Senator Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Marquita Bradshaw | U.S. Senator Running | Democratic | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Robert Jones | U.S. Senator Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Tharon Chandler | U.S. Senator Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Yoshi D. Matthews | U.S. Senator Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission |
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U.S. Representative — TN-4
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Faircloth | U.S. Representative Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Jacob Kristopher Anders | U.S. Representative Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Scott DesJarlais | U.S. Representative Running | Republican | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Victoria Broderick | U.S. Representative Running | Democratic | Davidson County Election Commission |
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U.S. Representative — TN-5
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Ogles Elected | U.S. Representative | Republican | U.S. House of Representatives |
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U.S. Representative — TN-6
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John W. Rose Elected | U.S. Representative | Republican | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Angus Purdy | U.S. Representative Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Christopher B. Monday | U.S. Representative Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Johnny Garrett | U.S. Representative Running | Republican | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Mike Croley | U.S. Representative Running | Democratic | Davidson County Election Commission |
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U.S. Representative — TN-7
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Van Epps Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Republican | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Andrew J. Koontz | U.S. Representative Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Darden Copeland | U.S. Representative Running | Democratic | Davidson County Election Commission | |
| Lowell Reynolds | U.S. Representative Running | Independent | Davidson County Election Commission |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Municipal: Mayor Freddie O'Connell (Mayor's Office page), Vice Mayor Angie Emery Henderson (Vice Mayor page) and 40 Metropolitan Council members (5 at-large, 35 district) from https://www.nashville.gov/departments/council/metro-council-members, retrieved 2026-10-15 (page footer 'Last updated: October 7, 2025'; no vacancies shown). Official @nashville.gov emails are recorded (decoded from the page's Cloudflare email obfuscation); office phone numbers are not. Metro elections are non-partisan, so party is null. At-large members are elected county-wide, not to numbered positions, so their seat is 'At-Large' (the page's URLs number them at-large-1 … at-large-5).
- Next Metropolitan election: the Metropolitan General Election for Mayor, Vice Mayor and all 40 Council seats in August 2027, with a runoff in September if no one has a majority (pattern on the Election Commission's own list: Metropolitan General 2019-08-01 / runoff 2019-09-12; 2023-08-03 / runoff 2023-09-14). The 2027 date is expected to be Thursday, August 5, 2027 but is not yet on an official calendar read here (the 2026 Davidson County Election Calendar, rev. 2026-06-12, covers 2026 only). Current terms run until then.
- Other county-wide elected officers (Sheriff, Trustee, County Clerk, Register of Deeds, court clerks, Public Defender, judges, school board) are county offices elected in the May/August 2026 county elections and are not recorded here.
- Congressional districts: Davidson County polygon (TIGERweb State_County, GEOID 47037) sampled on a 160x160 grid (14,781 points inside) against TIGERweb Legislative layer 4 (119th Congress — the sitting map): TN-7 5,902, TN-5 5,580, TN-6 3,296, TN-4 2 border points (treated as a generalisation artefact); and layer 0 (120th Congress — Tennessee's May 2026 map): TN-7 8,333, TN-4 3,284, TN-6 3,162 (1 point TN-9, artefact). The 2026 Davidson County Election Calendar lists U.S. Representative Districts 4, 6, 7 and the Election Commission's news release of 2026-06-25 says voters were reassigned to 'the revised congressional districts adopted by the Tennessee General Assembly in May'. Sitting members (Ogles TN-5, Rose TN-6, Van Epps TN-7) are listed as elected; DesJarlais (TN-4) is listed as a candidate only. Census geocoder puts the Metro Courthouse in TN-6 (120th layer).
- State legislative districts covering Davidson County by the same grid (2026 layers): Senate 20, 19, 21, 17 (plus 1-2 point slivers of 14, 18, 23); House 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60 (plus single-point border slivers). Only the Metro Courthouse's districts (SD-21, HD-51) are recorded as people, per the brief. SD-20 is not up in 2026.
- Sitting U.S. Representatives from https://www.house.gov/representatives (Tennessee table), retrieved 2026-10-15. U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty (both Republican): senate.gov returns HTTP 403, so taken from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json (Hagerty term ends 2027-01-03, Blackburn 2031-01-03). Hagerty's seat is on the 2026 ballot; Blackburn is the Republican nominee for Governor (recorded on her Senator row as incumbent-running with runningFor 'Governor', not as a separate row). No federal photos linked.
- State officeholders: capitol.tn.gov (Tennessee General Assembly) robots.txt allows only named search engines ('User-agent: * Disallow: /'), so no legislature page was fetched. SD-21 Jeff Yarbro (D) and HD-51 Aftyn Behn (D) are taken from the Davidson County Election Commission's official results (2022-11-08 SD-21; 2024-11-05 HD-51) and the 2026 sample ballot, and marked "unofficial": true because no current roster was read. Both are the only printed candidates for their seats in 2026 (counted as unopposed). Governor Bill Lee from tn.gov (robots allows all); party from the 2022 Davidson County results.
- Candidates: the Tennessee Secretary of State / Division of Elections site (sos.tn.gov) returns a CloudFront 403 even for robots.txt, so the state certified candidate list was not read. Candidates are from the Davidson County Election Commission's Official Sample Ballot for the November 3, 2026 State and Federal General Election (PDF posted 2026-09, linked from https://www.nashville.gov/departments/elections/voters/sample-ballots), which prints only nominees and qualified independents (party label kept in ballotParty: 'Republican Party Nominee', 'Democratic Party Nominee', 'Independent Candidate'). Names exactly as printed. Write-ins skipped; primary losers excluded.
- Governor 2026 (open): Marsha Blackburn (R), Jerri Green (D) and 13 independents. U.S. Senate: Bill Hagerty (R, inc.), Marquita Bradshaw (D) and 8 independents. TN-4: Scott DesJarlais (R), Victoria Broderick (D), 2 independents. TN-6 (open): Johnny Garrett (R), Mike Croley (D), 2 independents. TN-7: Matt Van Epps (R, inc.), Darden Copeland (D), 2 independents. SD-21: Jeff Yarbro (D, inc.) alone. HD-51: Aftyn Behn (D, inc.) alone.
- Robots/terms: nashville.gov (Drupal robots; council, mayor and elections pages allowed; footer '© 2026 Official website of Metro Nashville & Davidson County', Terms of Service linked but not accepted; photos linked, not copied), house.gov (allows), tn.gov (Allow: /), geocoding.geo.census.gov and tigerweb.geo.census.gov (public Census services; tigerweb's robots.txt request returned a 'Request Rejected' page, the ArcGIS REST endpoints answered normally, as in earlier runs), unitedstates.github.io (CC0; no robots.txt). Blocked, not bypassed: senate.gov (403, per earlier runs), sos.tn.gov (CloudFront 403), capitol.tn.gov (robots disallow).
- No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor null for everyone (no candidate statements read). Wikipedia, Ballotpedia and news were not used.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-10-15. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- Metro Nashville — Metropolitan Council Members 40
- Davidson County Election Commission — Official Sample Ballot, November 3, 2026 State and Federal General Election (posted 2026-09) 34
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives (Tennessee) 3
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json); senate.gov returns HTTP 403 2
- Metro Nashville — Vice Mayor and President of the Metro Council 1
- Office of the Governor (tn.gov) — Meet Governor Bill Lee; party from the Davidson County Election Commission November 8, 2022 results 1
- Metro Nashville — Mayor's Office 1
- Davidson County Election Commission — November 5, 2024 results by precinct (State House District 51); no current legislature roster readable 1
- Davidson County Election Commission — November 8, 2022 official results (Senate District 21); no current legislature roster readable 1