Political Roundup: Knox County turnout tops Shelby, and more
In Shelby County, Donald Trump received 118,917 votes, and Kamala Harris got 201,759. (Benjamin Naylor/The Daily Memphian file)
Voter turnout across Tennessee for the Nov. 5 presidential election was 66.3% — or 3.08 million — of the state’s 4,652,300 voters.
The number of voters is a state record, according to Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett, who commented after he, Gov. Bill Lee and Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti met Dec. 2 to certify the state results.
The percentage is based on the total number of voters in the state according to a June report — the most recent — by the Tennessee Secretary of State’s office.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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