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2026 Tennessee Senate race

Ten candidates are on the November 3, 2026 ballot for U.S. Senate in Tennessee, as recorded September 21, 2026 from the Tennessee Division of Elections.

The November ballot

Hagerty
$16M
Sutman Jr.
$26K

Raised so far, filed with the FEC

Also in this race: Marquita Bradshaw (Democrat), Tharon Chandler (Independent), Andrew Gerena (Independent), Jeremy Hearn (Independent), Robert Jones (Independent), James Macon III (Independent), Yoshi Matthews (Independent) and Catherine Whitson (Independent).

Official candidate list: Tennessee Division of Elections; Candidates for United States Senate, November 3, 2026 General Election: ten candidates; The Division of Elections page that links both lists. Faces and bars are the campaigns that hold the seat or have $25,000 raised or outside spending on file; being outside that group is a filing fact, not a mark. Not a prediction.

The seat

Bill Hagerty

Republican · Holds the seat now

First took office 2021 · Age 67

49
Trades disclosed
$17M
Estimated volume
11
Committee overlaps
Has not cosponsored a bill that would ban it

From the member's own disclosures and congress.gov. Not cosponsoring is not a vote against a ban.

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How to vote in Tennessee

  • General electionNovember 3, 2026 

Register 30 days before the election.

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How they won the primary

The primary · 339,926 votes

  • Marquita Bradshaw Won: 54.8% 186,230
  • Maria Brewer: 18.0% 61,061
  • Kevin Lee McCants: 10.1% 34,234
  • Civil Miller-Watkins: 8.7% 29,596
  • Diana Onyejiaka: 8.5% 28,805

Primary results as recorded October 12, 2026, ordered by votes. Source: Tennessee Secretary of State statewide precinct results workbook. A primary result is a recorded fact about a past contest, not a prediction of November.

The money on this race

Raised by candidates
$16M
Outside money
$2.1M

Outside money, for and against

Supporting Hagerty$2.1M
Opposing Hagerty-
Supporting Sutman-
Opposing Sutman-

Independent expenditures; direction is each filer's own declared filing. No outside money is on file for or against the other 8 names on this ballot.

Where each candidate's money comes from

18%$2.8MSmall donors--
46%$7.3MLarge donors--
18%$2.9MPACs--
<1%$63KParty--
--Self-funding$26K100%
18%$2.9MOther--

Small donors give $200 or less; PACs are political action committees. Shares of each candidate's own receipts on file with the FEC. Outside money is not part of these figures.

Other includes money transferred in from committees the candidate authorized, such as a joint fundraising committee, which reports its own donors to the FEC: Bill Hagerty $2.7M.

Who is spending on this race

The largest groups spending independently here, ranked; open a row for whose race the money went into.

Independent expenditures reported to the FEC; direction is each group's own declared filing.

Not on the November ballot

6 filed

Primary candidates who did not advance, committees still on file, and candidacies that ended. Being here is a filing fact, not a mark against anyone.

How this seat voted last time

R+27 in 2020

  • Bill Hagerty Won: 62.2%
  • Marquita Bradshaw: 35.2%

2,959,761 votes for candidates. Other candidates and write-ins took the remaining 2.6%. A past result is a filed fact, not a prediction of November.

Certified returns via MIT Election Data and Science Lab, from the House Clerk's election statistics and state canvasses.

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Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Candidate totals are each campaign's latest FEC report, ending between June 30, 2026 and September 30, 2026. Outside money is the FEC's processed total of independent expenditures plus the 24- and 48-hour reports filed since each group's latest regular report. It covers each candidate's own campaign: the years since their previous federal election, up to the six their totals cover. Dataset built 2026-10-12. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.