U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who won the Tennessee governor’s race in a narrow victory, embraces conservative talk show host Clay Travis at her Nov. 3, 2026 Election Night party.
Velma Farris, age 102, right, smiles as she waits for a voting booth to open at Nashville’s Shelby Community Center. Her daughter, Vicky Greve, left, said her mother’s first vote was in 1944 for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Democrat Mark Proctor, a former Tennessee Highway Patrol colonel, greets voters at Thurgood Marshall Middle School in Nashville on Nov. 3, 2026. Proctor defeated Republican Bill Hancock to hold House District 59 for Democrats.
Dr. Laura Andreson, left, laughs with volunteer Jennifer Hamilton at a Nolensville, Tennessee polling place. Andreson, a Democrat, ran against Republican Rep. Jake McAlmon but lost in her second attempt to take House District 63.
Voters line up inside the gym at A.Z. Kelley Elementary School in Antioch, Tennessee, on Nov. 3, 2026.
State Sen. Bo Watson, a Hixson Republican, did some last-minute campaigning outside a Signal Mountain polling place in Hamilton County, Tennessee on Nov. 3, 2026.
Tennessee state Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson talks to a colleague at the election night party for U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s gubernatorial campaign on Nov. 3, 2026. Johnson is in a tight race to be the next state Senate speaker.
Anna Golladay, Democratic nominee for the 3rd Congressional District, speaks to supporters at The Signal in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Nov. 3, 2026. Golladay lost to incumbent U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleishmann, a Republican.
Volunteers for U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s gubernatorial campaign watch election results come in at her celebration in downtown Nashville on Nov. 3, 2026.
“This was just one battle for our state, and it was not the end of the fight,” said Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jerri Green, conceding the race to U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn on Nov. 3, 2026, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, acknowledging supporters at her downtown Nashville victory party, was elected to be Tennessee’s first woman governor on Nov. 3, 2026.
