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Early voting in Tennessee

In Tennessee, registered voters can request a mail-in ballot or vote early in-person. In 2016, 66% of the total votes were cast early.

Mail-in and early in-person ballots returned2,287,756

27%
62%
11%
DEMGOPOther
Last updated Dec. 3. Party registration is modeled by TargetSmart from multiple commercial sources.Data provided by TargetSmart

Tennessee Primary election results

Democratic Primary/ 64 Del.64 Delegates

Full Tennessee Primary Results
  • DEM

    Joe BidenWinner

    41.7%

    215,390

    + 38 Delegates

  • DEM

    Bernie Sanders

    25%

    129,168

    + 22 Delegates

  • DEM

    Michael Bloomberg

    15.4%

    79,789

    + 3 Delegates

Republican Primary/ 58 Del.58 Delegates

Full Tennessee Primary Results
  • REP

    Donald TrumpWinner

    96.4%

    384,266

    + 58 Delegates

  • REP

    Uncommitted

    1.5%

    5,948

  • REP

    Joe Walsh

    1%

    4,178

How Tennessee voted

In 2016, Donald Trump won the state with 61 percent of the vote, according to NBC News results, while Hillary Clinton received 35 percent. The last Democratic candidate to win the deeply red state was Bill Clinton in both 1992 and 1996.

  • Republican

    Donald TrumpTrumpWinner

    61.1%

    1,522,925

  • Democrat

    Hillary ClintonClinton

    34.9%

    870,695

  • Republican

    Mitt RomneyRomneyWinner

    59.5%

    1,462,330

  • Democrat

    Barack ObamaObama

    39.1%

    960,709

More to the story in Tennessee 2020

The coronavirus pandemic and its devastating economic fallout are two major issues that have an impact on the election. NBC News is tracking and updating daily the number of coronavirus related deaths in each state and U.S. territory, as well as the jobless claims as reported weekly by the Department of Labor that counts how many people have filed for unemployment benefits.

U.S. ClaimsWeekly
change
60-day
trend
Monthly
change
3,690,000+1.01%
-0.99%
50,175-6.28%
+12.33%
Tennessee Claims

The expected vote is the total number of votes that are expected in a given race once all votes are counted. This number is an estimate and is based on several different factors, including information on the number of votes cast early as well as information provided to our vote reporters on Election Day from county election officials. The figure can change as NBC News gathers new information.

Source: National Election Pool (NEP)