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Tennessee candidate resources

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A plain-language guide to how county ballot access works in every one of Tennessee's 95 counties. The county general election was held Thursday, August 6, 2026 and the next one is August 2030, so a county seat is not what you can still run for this year. Two doors are open. A declared write-in candidacy for the November 3, 2026 ballot costs nothing, needs no signatures beyond your own, and can be filed until noon on Monday, September 14, 2026, but it must be filed in every county of your district. And where a city holds its election on the November date, qualifying closes at noon on Thursday, August 20, 2026. Click the map or use the list.

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All 95 Tennessee counties. Click any county for its guide.

All 95 Tennessee counties

Alphabetical. Each links to that county’s “how to run for office” guide.

Anderson County Bedford County Benton County Bledsoe County Blount County Bradley County Campbell County Cannon County Carroll County Carter County Cheatham County Chester County Claiborne County Clay County Cocke County Coffee County Crockett County Cumberland County Davidson County DeKalb County Decatur County Dickson County Dyer County Fayette County Fentress County Franklin County Gibson County Giles County Grainger County Greene County Grundy County Hamblen County Hamilton County Hancock County Hardeman County Hardin County Hawkins County Haywood County Henderson County Henry County Hickman County Houston County Humphreys County Jackson County Jefferson County Johnson County Knox County Lake County Lauderdale County Lawrence County Lewis County Lincoln County Loudon County Macon County Madison County Marion County Marshall County Maury County McMinn County McNairy County Meigs County Monroe County Montgomery County Moore County Morgan County Obion County Overton County Perry County Pickett County Polk County Putnam County Rhea County Roane County Robertson County Rutherford County Scott County Sequatchie County Sevier County Shelby County Smith County Stewart County Sullivan County Sumner County Tipton County Trousdale County Unicoi County Union County Van Buren County Warren County Washington County Wayne County Weakley County White County Williamson County Wilson County

Running somewhere in Tennessee?

Motion51 does not hold the Tennessee voter file, and Tennessee is a state where you buy it yourself from the county. It is one of the more straightforward states to do that in. Under TCA 2-2-138(b)(1) your county election commission sells you the county list, including voter history where the county has compiled it, at a price not to exceed the cost of production, once you certify on a state form that you will use it for political purposes. There is no felony attached, no resale ban and no commercial-use restriction on you as the purchaser, and the only field the state redacts is the social security number. We are not going to quote you a price, because the statute sets none and counties charge differently. Ask your county election commission what it charges, buy the list, bring it here, and we will load it in, cut turf, and send volunteers out with a phone instead of a clipboard. The free tier costs nothing to try.

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