2020 Tennessee House of Representatives election


The 2020 Tennessee House of Representatives election was held on November 3, 2020, to elect 99 seats for the Tennessee House of Representatives. The elections coincided with the Presidential, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, and State Senate elections.
The Democratic Party retook the 90th district, where the incumbent John DeBerry had defected to become an independent. The Republican Party maintained their supermajority in the state house.

Retirements

Five representatives retired, one of whom retired to run for other offices.

Republicans

  1. District 3: Timothy Hill retired to run for the U.S. House of Representatives in Tennessee's 1st congressional district.
  2. District 16: Bill Dunn retired.
  3. District 18: Martin Daniel retired.
  4. District 76: Andrew Holt retired.
  5. District 97: Jim Coley retired.

Democrats

''No democrats retired in 2020''

Incumbents defeated

In primary elections

Two Republicans lost renomination.

Republicans

  1. District 6: James Van Huss lost renomination to Tim Hicks.
  2. District 7: Matthew Hill lost renomination to Rebecca Alexander.
  3. District 92: Rick Tillis lost renomination to Todd Warner.

Democrats

Two Democrats lost renomination.
  1. District 15: Rick Staples lost renomination to Sam McKenzie.
  2. District 90: John DeBerry lost renomination to Torrey Harris.

In general elections

Independents

One Independent lost re-election to a Democrat.
  1. District 90: John DeBerry lost to Torrey Harris.

Results summary

Close races

Seven races were decided by a margin of under 10%:
DistrictWinnerMargin
District 97data-sort-value=1 1.6%
District 13data-sort-value=1 5.8%
District 49data-sort-value=1 7.8%
District 83data-sort-value=1 8.0%
District 56data-sort-value=1 8.4%
District 18data-sort-value=1 9.8%
District 67data-sort-value=1 9.8%

Results

District 8

District 16

District 24

District 32

District 40

District 48

District 56

District 64

District 72

District 80

District 88

District 90

John DeBerry was removed from the ballot by his party for the August 2020 Democratic primaries because of his history of aligning with the Republicans in votes and donations, and ran in the general election as an independent.