Elections in Tennessee are held to fill various local, state, and federal seats.
[3] Between the end of the Civil War and the mid-20th century, Tennessee was part of the Democratic Solid South, but had the largest Republican minority of any former Confederate state.
[4] During this time, East Tennessee was heavily Republican and the western two thirds mostly voted Democratic, with the latter dominating the state.
[5] This division was related to the state's pattern of Unionist and Confederate loyalism during the Civil War.
Democratic strength is largely concentrated in Nashville, Memphis, and parts of Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Clarksville.