Party · Tennessee

Democratic Party

One of 2 parties we found with ballot status in Tennessee for the November 3, 2026 election, named as the state’s records name it.1,2

Research draft
Picks nominees by
Primary election
State’s party list
No official list read
Researched
October 27, 2026

Research draft. We gathered this from official sources on October 27, 2026: election offices, state laws and court records, each linked to its source. Separate reviewers checked a random sample of 54 facts from the party research against the cited sources and found 4 errors, since corrected; 1 couldn’t be checked because the source wouldn’t display its text. The rest hasn't been reviewed fact by fact yet, so check the linked source before relying on anything here.

§1Ballot status

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

We couldn't read an official list of Tennessee's parties, so this one comes from other official documents.1,2

The November 3, 2026 sample ballot labels this party's candidates as Democratic Party Nominee.1

§2How it picks nominees

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Primary election. The party's nominees for state and federal offices were chosen in the Democratic State and Federal Primary on August 6, 2026.2

Tennessee's rules for nominating

In 2026, the Republican and Democratic parties each held a state and federal primary on August 6, and candidates not nominated by a party appear on the November ballot as Independent Candidate.1,2 A voter may take part in a party's primary if the voter is a bona fide member of that party, or declares allegiance to it at the polls and says they intend to affiliate with it.3

§3On the 2026 ballot

11 Candidates for U.S. Senate, U.S. House or governor whose label on Tennessee's November 3 ballot names this party, from the state's official candidate list. Labels are shown exactly as the ballot prints them. Other offices aren't covered yet.

Candidates whose ballot label names the Democratic Party, by race.
RaceCandidateLabel on the ballot
U.S. Senate · TennesseeMarquita BradshawDemocratic4
Governor · TennesseeJerri GreenDemocratic5
U.S. House · Tennessee's 1st DistrictKristi BurkeDemocratic6
U.S. House · Tennessee's 2nd DistrictMichaela BarnettDemocratic6
U.S. House · Tennessee's 3rd DistrictAnna GolladayDemocratic6
U.S. House · Tennessee's 4th DistrictVictoria BroderickDemocratic6
U.S. House · Tennessee's 5th DistrictChaz MolderDemocratic6
U.S. House · Tennessee's 6th DistrictMike CroleyDemocratic6
U.S. House · Tennessee's 7th DistrictDarden CopelandDemocratic6
U.S. House · Tennessee's 8th DistrictHeidi KuhnDemocratic6
U.S. House · Tennessee's 9th DistrictJustin J. PearsonDemocratic6

§4Notes on Tennessee’s party research

What the research couldn’t find or confirm about Tennessee’s parties, in its own plain words. Nothing is left out silently.

  • No official list of ballot-qualified parties could be read. Every Tennessee Secretary of State website we tried (sos.tn.gov, sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com and publications.tnsosfiles.com) answered with an HTTP 403 access-denied page, including sos.tn.gov to a single request at a slower pace on 2026-10-27, and the official Tennessee Code is hosted by LexisNexis behind a terms page, so we used neither.
  • The party list is based on Davidson County's official sample ballots for the August 6 and November 3, 2026 elections, which show only Republican and Democratic party nominees plus independent candidates. A recognized minor party with no nominee on these ballots would not appear there.
  • Party names are taken from the sample-ballot labels (for example, Democratic Party Nominee); we could not confirm the names on the Secretary of State's list.
  • the party’s legal class is left out because we could not read an official source saying which class each party holds.
  • the rules for forming a party and the rules for keeping party status are left out: we could not read the statutes on forming a recognized minor party or on the vote share a party needs to keep its status.
  • We do not state Tennessee's legal classes of party (the terms statewide political party and recognized minor party appear in Tenn. Code § 2-1-104): the Code is hosted by a vendor behind a terms click-through and the Secretary of State's site was blocked, and the only page we could read that uses the terms is the summary of a withdrawn 2025 bill (SB 123), which describes the bill rather than current law.