Congressional district
Tennessee's 8th Congressional District
Democratic share of the 2026 primary vote is 41.2%, ranking 2 of 9 congressional districts.
Congressional · Tennessee's 8th Congressional District
Heidi Kuhn
Democratic nominee
Unofficial results — not yet certified
Photo: Shelby County Criminal Court Clerk's Office
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Dem. votes
45,778
Rep. votes
65,421
Dem. share
41.2%
Rep. share
58.8%
Ballots
111,199
Rank
#2 of 9
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All 9 congressional districts · ranked by Democratic share2
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Federal money
Who is paying for this race
Candidates in this district have raised $2.46M. No outside group has spent money here.
TN-08
Raised by candidates
$2.46M
Outside money
None
Democratic
$209K
Republican
$2.25M
Candidates by money raised
Filings through July 22, 2026 · Federal Election Commission. Governor, state senate and state house candidates do not report to the FEC, so no comparable figures exist for those races.
Source attribution
Data provenance
- Registration denominators: Tennessee Secretary of State June 2026 voter registration report, total registration by county.
- Election results: Tennessee Secretary of State, August 6, 2026 unofficial primary results aggregated by district, and the gubernatorial primary county breakdown aggregated by county.
- County turnout is computed by dividing 2026 primary votes by June 2026 registered-voter totals.
- District and county boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, January 1, 2025 vintage, as rendered in the thedems.org app.
- Per-county results for state and federal races: the Tennessee Secretary of State’s own county breakdown for each race, ingested race by race — candidate, party, votes and precincts completed, for every county that race appeared in.
- County and municipal offices and ballot measures: the county’s OWN election commission, which is the only place they are published — the state dashboard carries no county offices at all. Every county publishes in whatever format it chose, so these are read one format at a time: a county’s results feed where it has one, the report its vote-counting equipment prints where it does not, and a neighbour who types the numbers in and links the page they came from where no computer can read it. Where a county has not been ingested yet, this page says so plainly and points to how to help, rather than showing nothing or implying it held no county elections.
- When these numbers were counted: each county’s report carries its own printed date and time, and that is the one shown here — not when we fetched it. Counties keep counting after election night as provisional ballots are decided and mailed ballots are cured, and they republish at the same address when they do. So a figure can go up days later, and results stay unofficial until the county election commission certifies them.
