Thursday filing deadline for August ballot includes last-minute surprises
Voters go to the polls on March 3, 2020. There has been some late movement in several of the August races. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Five incumbents could effectively win re-election at Thursday's noon deadline, but that's not a sure thing for most of them. And eight of the 16 seats in the Shelby County delegation to Nashville on the Aug. 6 ballot will likely be decided with the primaries as the winners run unopposed in the November general election.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for more than 40 years.
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