D.C.'s Political Report: 1998 Tennessee Congressional and Statewide Results

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Tennessee Department of State - Division of Elections

1998 Tennessee Congressional and Statewide Results
Filing Deadline: May 21, Primary: August 6

Predictions, Notes, List of State Parties

Governor, 54% in '94, 1^st term
Stu Rothenberg's prediction: Safe Republican, Campaign & Election's prediction: Republican favored 1:15 D.C.'s Report's prediction: 90% Republican

perennial candidate John Jay Hooker (D) 29% Don Sundquist (R) 69% Lonnie L. Creech (I) 0%, Irwin W. Gibbs (I) 0%, George Alex Hamilton Sr. (I) 1%, Thomas E. Smith II (I) 0%, Karl Smithson (I) 0%, Hubert Paty (I) 0%

1st Cong. District, 63.9% in '96, 1^st term
Roll Call's prediction: Safe Republican, Campaign & Election's prediction: Republican favored 1:5, D.C.'s Report's prediction: 90% Republican

'96 nominee / realtor Kay White (D) 30.8% William "Bill" Jenkins (R) 69.1% Michael Peavler (WI) 0.1%

2nd Cong. District, 70.7% in '96, 6^th term
Roll Call's prediction: Safe Republican, Campaign & Election's prediction: Republican favored 1:100, D.C.'s Report's prediction: 100% Republican

No Democrat John J. Duncan, Jr. (R) 88.6% '96 candidate George Njezic (I) 2.8%, '96 U.S. Senate nominee W. Greg Samples (L) 4.2%, '96 Senate candidate Robert O. Watson (I) 4.3%, write in candidates 0.0%

3rd Cong. District, 56.4% in '96, 2^nd term
Roll Call's prediction: Safe Republican, Campaign & Election's prediction: Republican favored 1:5, D.C.'s Report's prediction: 77% Republican

ex-St. Sen. / pharmacist James M. Lewis Jr. (D) 32.6% Zach Wamp (R) 66.0% Richard M. "Dick" Sims (NL) 1.3%, write in candidates 0.1%

4th Cong. District, 58.0% in '96, 2^nd term
Roll Call's prediction: Likely Republican, Campaign & Election's prediction: Republican favored 3:8, D.C.'s Report's prediction: 90% Republican

St. Sen. Jerry W. Cooper (D) 40.4% William V. "Van" Hilleary (R) 59.6% Robert Mason Jr. (WI) 0.0%

5th Cong. District, 72.4% in '96, 6^th term
Roll Call's prediction: Safe Democrat, Campaign & Election's prediction: Democrat favored 1:100, D.C.'s Report's prediction: 100% Democrat

Bob Clement (D) 82.8% No Republican Al Borgman (I) 5.5%, William M. Lancaster (I) 6.8%, Gary I. Worden (I) 4.8%, write in candidate 0.0%

6th Cong. District, 54.4% in '96, 7^th term
Roll Call's prediction: Likely Democrat, Campaign & Election's prediction: Democrat favored 2:3, D.C.'s Report's prediction: 50% Democrat

Bart Gordon (D) 54.6% engineer / '96 candidate Walt Massey (R) 45.3% write in candidates 0.1%

7th Cong. District, 64.1% in '96, 2^nd term
Roll Call's prediction: Safe Republican, Campaign & Election's prediction: Republican favored 1:100, D.C.'s Report's prediction: 100% Republican

No Democrat Ed Bryant 99.5% (R) write in candidates 0.5%

8th Cong. District, 67.3% in '96, 5^th term
Roll Call's prediction: Safe Democrat, Campaign & Election's prediction: Democrat favored 1:100, D.C.'s Report's prediction: 100% Democrat

John S. Tanner (D) 100.0% No Republican write in candidates 0.0%

9th Cong. District, 61.1% in '96, 1^st term
Roll Call's prediction: Safe Democrat, Campaign & Election's prediction: Democrat favored 1:10, D.C.'s Report's prediction: 90% Democrat

Harold E. Ford Jr. (D) 78.7% Artist Claude Burdikoff (R) 18.9% Johnny Kelly (I) 0.8%, Gwendolyn Lauree Moore (I) 1.0%, '96 nominee Greg Voehringer (L) 0.6%, write in candidates 0.0%

1. Key to Predictions: Roll Call,
The Cook Political Report,
The Rothenberg Political Report,
Campaign & Election Magazine,
D.C.'s Political Report

2. Bold indicates incumbent. Yellow district indicates open races. Blue boxes indicates winner. Red print indicates change in party control.

3. Key to Party Identification.
(D) = Democratic Party
(I) = independent candidates
(NL) = Natural Law Party
(L) = Libertarian Party
(R) = Republican Party
(WI) = Write-in candidates