2014 Tennessee elections

Amendment 2
Shall Article Vl, Section 3 of the Constitution of Tennessee be amended by deleting the first and second sentences and by substituting instead the following: Judges of the Supreme Court or any intermediate appellate court shall be appointed for a full term or to fill a vacancy by and at the discretion of the governor; shall be confirmed by the Legislature; and thereafter, shall be elected in a retention election by the qualified voters of the state. Confirmation by default occurs if the Legislature fails to reject an appointee within sixty calendar days of either the date of appointment, if made during the annual legislative session, or the convening date of the next annual legislative session, if made out of session. The Legislature is authorized to prescribe such provisions as may be necessary to carry out Sections two and three of this article.
Results
	Results by county; Yes 70–80% 60–70% 50–60% No 50–60%
	Source: Tennessee Secretary of State

Amendment 1
Shall Article I, of the Constitution of Tennessee be amended by adding the following language as a new, appropriately designated section: Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion. The people retain the right through their elected state representatives and state senators to enact, amend, or repeal statutes regarding abortion, including, but not limited to, circumstances of pregnancy resulting from rape or incest or when necessary to save the life of the mother.
Results
	Results by county; Yes 70–80% 60–70% 50–60% No 60–70% 50–60%
	Source: Tennessee Secretary of State

Tennessee state elections in 2014 were held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014. Primary elections for the United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, governorship, Tennessee Senate, and Tennessee House of Representatives, as well as various judicial retention elections, including elections for three Tennessee Supreme Court justices, were held on August 7, 2014. There were also four constitutional amendments to the Constitution of Tennessee on the November 4 ballot.

United States Congress

Senate

Incumbent Republican U.S. senator Lamar Alexander defeated Democrat Gordon Ball and was re-elected to a third term in office with 61.9% of the vote against 31.9%.

Results

2014 United States Senate election in Tennessee^[1]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Lamar Alexander (incumbent)	850,087	61.87%	−3.27%
	Democratic	Gordon Ball	437,848	31.87%	+0.23%
	Constitution	Joe Wilmoth	36,088	2.63%	N/A
	Green	Martin Pleasant	12,570	0.91%	N/A
	Independent	Tom Emerson Jr.	11,157	0.81%	N/A
	Independent	Danny Page	7,713	0.56%	N/A
	Independent	Rick Tyler	5,759	0.42%	N/A
	Independent	Joshua James	5,678	0.41%	N/A
	Independent	Bartholomew J. Phillips	2,386	0.17%	N/A
	Independent	Edmund L. Gauthier	2,314	0.17%	N/A
	Independent	Eric Schechter	1,673	0.12%	N/A
	Independent	Choudhury Salekin	787	0.06%	N/A
	Write-in		5	0.00%	N/A
Total votes			1,374,065	100.00%	N/A
	Republican hold

August 7, 2014, Primary Results

Democratic primary results^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Gordon Ball	87,829	36.45%
	Democratic	Terry Adams	85,794	35.61%
	Democratic	Gary Gene Davis	42,549	17.66%
	Democratic	Larry Crim	24,777	10.28%
Total votes			240,949	100.00%

Republican primary election^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Lamar Alexander (incumbent)	331,705	49.65%
	Republican	Joe Carr	271,324	40.61%
	Republican	George Shea Flinn	34,668	5.19%
	Republican	Christian Agnew	11,320	1.69%
	Republican	Brenda S. Lenard	7,908	1.18%
	Republican	John D. King	7,748	1.16%
	Republican	Erin Kent Magee	3,366	0.52%
Total votes			668,039	100.00%

House of Representatives

Tennessee elected nine U.S. Representatives, each representing one of Tennessee's nine Congressional Districts.

Results

Source:^[3]

District	Republican		Democratic		Others		Total		Result

	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%	Votes	%
District 1	115,533	82.84%	0	0.00%	23,937	17.16%	139,470	100.0%	Republican hold
District 2	120,883	72.49%	37,612	22.56%	8,256	1.00%	166,751	100.0%	Republican hold
District 3	97,344	62.36%	53,983	34.58%	4,770	3.06%	156,097	100.0%	Republican hold
District 4	84,815	58.32%	51,357	35.32%	9,246	6.36%	145,418	100.0%	Republican hold
District 5	55,078	35.70%	96,148	62.32%	3,050	1.98%	154,276	100.0%	Democratic hold
District 6	115,231	71.09%	37,232	22.97%	9,634	5.94%	162,097	100.0%	Republican hold
District 7	110,534	70.00%	42,280	26.77%	5,093	3.23%	157,907	100.0%	Republican hold
District 8	122,255	70.83%	42,433	24.59%	7,907	4.58%	172,595	100.0%	Republican hold
District 9	27,173	23.31%	87,376	74.97%	2,001	1.72%	116,550	100.0%	Democratic hold
Total	848,846	61.91%	448,421	32.70%	73,894	5.39%	1,371,161	100.0%

Popular vote

Republican			61.91%
Democratic			32.70%
Other			5.39%

House seats

Republican			77.78%
Democratic			22.22%

Gubernatorial

Incumbent Republican governor Bill Haslam was re-elected to a second term with 70.3% of the vote, defeating his Democratic challenger Charles Brown. Improving on his performance from 2010, Haslam also carried every county in the state

Results

2014 Tennessee gubernatorial election^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Bill Haslam (incumbent)	951,796	70.31%	+5.28%
	Democratic	Charles Brown	309,237	22.84%	−10.24%
	Independent	John Jay Hooker	30,579	2.26%	N/A
	Constitution	Shaun Crowell	26,580	1.96%	N/A
	Green	Isa Infante	18,570	1.37%	N/A
	Independent	Steve Coburn	8,612	0.64%	N/A
	Independent	Daniel Lewis	8,321	0.62%	N/A
	n/a	Write-ins	33	0.00%	0.00%
Total votes			1,353,728	100.0%	N/A
	Republican hold

August 7, 2014, primary results

County results

Democratic primary results^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Charles V. "Charlie" Brown	95,114	41.71
	Democratic	Wm. H. "John" McKamey	59,200	25.96
	Democratic	Kennedy Spellman Johnson	55,718	24.44
	Democratic	Ron Noonan	17,993	7.89
Total votes			228,025	100

Republican primary results^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Bill Haslam (incumbent)	570,997	87.68
	Republican	Mark "Coonrippy" Brown	44,165	6.78
	Republican	Donald Ray McFolin	22,968	3.53
	Republican	Basil Marceaux, Sr.	13,117	2.01
Total votes			651,247	100

State legislature

State Senate

Results by senate districts

Winners:

Republican hold

Democratic hold

Republican gain

No election

Elections for 18 of the 33 seats in Tennessee's State Senate were held on November 4, 2014.

After this election, Republicans had 28 seats while Democrats had 5 seats, with Republicans gaining two seats.

State House of Representatives

Results by State House districts

Winners:

Republican hold

Democratic hold

Republican gain

Democratic gain

The election of all 99 seats in the Tennessee House of Representatives occurred on November 4, 2014.

Republicans won 73 seats, while Democrats won 26 seats. Republicans gained two seats during this election.

Ballot measures

Amendment 1

This is an approved legislatively referred constitutional amendment to the Constitution of Tennessee that appeared on the ballot on November 4, 2014.^[7] The amendment would ensure that Constitution of Tennessee, would not support, fund, or protect the right to an abortion.

Amendment 2

Amendment 3

This amendment would prohibit a state income tax. It passed with 66.21% of the vote.

Amendment 3

Shall Article ll, Section 28 of the Constitution of Tennessee be amended by adding the following

sentence at the end of the final substantive paragraph within the section: Notwithstanding the authority to tax privileges or any other authority set forth in this Constitution, the Legislature shall not levy, authorize or otherwise permit any state or local tax upon payroll or earned personal income or any state state or local tax measured by payroller earned personal income; however,

nothing contained herein shall be construed as prohibiting any tax in effect on January 1, 2011, or adjustment of the rate of such tax.

Results

Choice	Votes	%
Yes	882,926	66.21%
No	450,522	33.79%
Valid votes	1,333,448	100.00%
Invalid or blank votes	0	0.00%
Total votes	1,333,448	100.00%

Results by county

Yes

70–80%

60–70%

50–60%

Source: Tennessee Secretary of State^[6]

Amendment 4

Shall Article XI, Section 5 of the Constitution of Tennessee be amended by deleting the following

language: All other forms of lottery not authorized herein are expressly prohibited unless authorized by a two-thirds vote of all members elected to each house of the general assembly for an annual event operated for the benefit of a 501(c)(3) organization located in this state, as defined by the 2000 United States Tax Code or as may be amended from time to time. and by substituting instead the following language: All other forms of lottery not authorized herein are expressly prohibited unless authorized by a two-thirds vote of all members elected to each house of the general assembly for an annual event operated for the

benefit of a 501(c)(3) or a 501(c)(19) organization, as defined by the 2000 United States Tax Code, located in this state.

Results

Choice	Votes	%
Yes	903,353	69.59%
No	394,727	30.41%
Valid votes	1,298,080	100.00%
Invalid or blank votes	0	0.00%
Total votes	1,298,080	100.00%

Results by county

Yes

70–80%

60–70%

50–60%

Source: Tennessee Secretary of State^[6]

Supreme Court

Retention elections (August 7, 2014)

All incumbent Tennessee Supreme Court Justices won their retention elections, getting eight more years. While the justices were able to overcome a vigorous opposition campaign by Ron Ramsey and others, who accused them of being "liberal," "soft on crime" and of helping Obamacare, their retention victories were by some of the smallest margins in recent history.^[8]

Tennessee Supreme Court Chief Justice, Gary R. Wade retention election^[9]
Choice	Votes	%
Yes	499,218	57.30
No	371,993	42.70
Total votes	871,211	100.00

Tennessee Supreme Court Associate Justice, Sharon G. Lee retention election^[9]
Choice	Votes	%
Yes	495,855	56.83
No	376,696	43.17
Total votes	872,551	100.00

Tennessee Supreme Court Associate Justice, Cornelia A. Clark retention election

Shall Cornelia A. (Connie) Clark be retained or replaced in office as Judge of the Supreme Court, at Large?

Results

Choice	Votes	%
Yes	492,972	56.04%
No	386,743	43.96%
Valid votes	879,715	100.00%
Invalid or blank votes	0	0.00%
Total votes	879,715	100.00%

Results by county

Retain

70–80%

60–70%

50–60%

Replace

60–70%

50–60%

Source: Tennessee Secretary of State^[10]

Local elections

Knox County

Incumbent Republican mayor Tim Burchett ran for re-election and was opposed by no one in both the primary and the general election since no other candidate filed to run against him.^[11]^[12]

Results

August 7, 2014 General election results^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Tim Burchett (incumbent)	48,062	100.00%
Total votes			48,062	100.00%

May 6, 2014, primary results

Republican primary results^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Tim Burchett (incumbent)	20,539	100.00%
Total votes			20,539	100.00%

Shelby County

Incumbent Republican Mayor Mark Luttrell won re-election with 62.3% of the vote, defeating Democratic nominee Deidre Malone.^[15]^[16]

Results

August 7, 2014 General election results^[17]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Mark Luttrell	90,541	62.34%
	Democratic	Deidre Malone	52,438	36.11%
	Independent	Charles Nelson	1,635	1.13%
	Independent	Leo Awgowhat	552	0.38%
	Write-in	Write-in	62	0.04%
Total votes			145,228	100.00%

May 6, 2014, primary results

Democratic primary results^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Deidre Malone	13,792	35.77%
	Democratic	Kenneth Whalum Jr.	12,607	32.70%
	Democratic	Steven J. Mulroy	12,046	31.24%
Total votes			38,559	100.00%

Democratic primary results^[19]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Mark Luttrell (Incumbent)	16,824	96.45%
	Republican	Ernest Lunati	595	3.41%
	Write-in	Write-in	25	0.14%
Total votes			17,444	100.00%

Clarksville

Incumbent Democratic mayor Kim McMillan ran for re-election and won a second term in office in a 3-way race.^[20]

November 4, 2014 Clarksville Mayor Election^[21]
Candidate	Votes	%
Kim McMillan (I)	9,577	46.88%
Bill Summers	5,544	27.14%
Jeff Burkhart	5,267	25.78%
Write-ins	42	0.21%
Total	20,430	100%

Murfreesboro

Incumbent Democratic mayor Tommy Bragg decided not to run for re-election to a third term.^[22]

Republican candidate Shane McFarland defeated Vice Mayor Ron Washington, becoming the youngest person elected as mayor in Murfreesboro history.^[23]

August 15, 2014 Murfreesboro Mayor Election^[24]
Candidate	Votes	%
Shane McFarland	5,315	68.09%
Ron Washington	2,474	31.69%
Write-ins	17	0.22%
Total	7,806	100%

References

^ State General State of Tennessee
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^ Haas, Karen L. (March 9, 2015). "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 2014". Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. Retrieved October 28, 2019.
^ "State of Tennessee - November 4, 2014 - State General" (PDF). tn.gov. Secretary of State of Tennessee. December 15, 2014.
^ ^a ^b "August 7, 2014 Official Election Results". Tennessee Secretary of State. Archived from the original on September 14, 2014. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Tennessee Amendment Election Results" (PDF). Tennessee Secretary of State.
^ "Tennessee Amendment 1, No State Constitutional Right to Abortion and Legislative Power to Regulate Abortion Amendment (2014)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
^ Haas, Brian. "Tennesseans vote to retain Supreme Court justices". The Tennessean. Retrieved September 24, 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Judicial retention election results" (PDF). Tennessee Secretary of State. August 7, 2014. Retrieved September 23, 2023.
^ "Tennessee Judicial Retention Election Results" (PDF). Tennessee Secretary of State.
^ "Results: County mayor races in East Tennessee". wbir.com. August 8, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2024.
^ "August 7, 2014 General election" (PDF). Knox County Election Commission. Retrieved April 2, 2024.
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^ "May 6th Republican Primary Mayor" (PDF). Knox County Election Commission. Retrieved April 2, 2024.
^ "Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell wins second term". www.commercialappeal.com. Retrieved January 18, 2024.
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^ "Election Results". secured.rutherfordcountytn.gov. Retrieved January 29, 2024.

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[clerk2014-3] Haas, Karen L. (March 9, 2015). "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 2014". Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. Retrieved October 28, 2019.

[4] "State of Tennessee - November 4, 2014 - State General" (PDF). tn.gov. Secretary of State of Tennessee. December 15, 2014.

[TNGOVprimaryresults-5] "August 7, 2014 Official Election Results". Tennessee Secretary of State. Archived from the original on September 14, 2014. Retrieved September 15, 2014.

[amend_results1-6] "Tennessee Amendment Election Results" (PDF). Tennessee Secretary of State.

[:02-7] "Tennessee Amendment 1, No State Constitutional Right to Abortion and Legislative Power to Regulate Abortion Amendment (2014)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved October 1, 2023.

[8] Haas, Brian. "Tennesseans vote to retain Supreme Court justices". The Tennessean. Retrieved September 24, 2023.

[clerk20143-9] "Judicial retention election results" (PDF). Tennessee Secretary of State. August 7, 2014. Retrieved September 23, 2023.

[judicial_results_county-10] "Tennessee Judicial Retention Election Results" (PDF). Tennessee Secretary of State.

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[12] "August 7, 2014 General election" (PDF). Knox County Election Commission. Retrieved April 2, 2024.

[13] "August 7, 2014 General election" (PDF). Knox County Election Commission. Retrieved April 2, 2024.

[GOPprimaryresults-14] "May 6th Republican Primary Mayor" (PDF). Knox County Election Commission. Retrieved April 2, 2024.

[15] "Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell wins second term". www.commercialappeal.com. Retrieved January 18, 2024.

[16] "Past Elections | Shelby County Election Commission, TN". www.electionsshelbytn.gov. Retrieved January 17, 2024.

[17] "Past Elections | Shelby County Election Commission, TN". www.electionsshelbytn.gov. Retrieved January 17, 2024.

[18] "County Primary 5.6.2014 | Shelby County Election Commission, TN". www.electionsshelbytn.gov. Retrieved January 17, 2024.

[19] "County Primary 5.6.2014 | Shelby County Election Commission, TN". www.electionsshelbytn.gov. Retrieved January 17, 2024.

[20] "Montgomery County, TN". mcgtn.org. Retrieved January 27, 2024.

[21] "Montgomery County, TN". mcgtn.org. Retrieved January 27, 2024.

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United States Congress

Senate

Results

House of Representatives

Results

Gubernatorial

Results

State legislature

State Senate

State House of Representatives

Ballot measures

Amendment 1

Amendment 2

Amendment 3

Amendment 4

Supreme Court

Retention elections (August 7, 2014)

Local elections

Knox County

Results

Shelby County

Results

Clarksville

Murfreesboro

See also

References