Kevin Quinn won a second term as Bartlett alderman, defeating two challengers. School board races in the suburb were decided without opposition.

The Tennessee Republican supermajority did not crack in Memphis on Tuesday with Rep. John Gillespie beating Democratic challenger Jesse Huseth and retaining the state House of Representatives District 97 seat. 

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Incumbents kept 14 of 15 Shelby County statehouse seats Tuesday, Nov. 5, according to election results. 

Absentee ballots were still being counted as of 8:45 p.m. as results from Election Day start rolling in to the Shelby County Election Commission.

Memphians remade how future mayors are elected Tuesday night, where they must live and how salaries are set for key members of city government.

According to early election returns, each of the three options passed with roughly the same number of for and against votes.

Collierville elected Maureen Fraser as its next mayor Tuesday. Mayor Stan Joyner is retiring later this year.

Kustoff and Cohen were poised to be reelected handily to their U.S. House seats representing Tennessee’s 8th and 9th Congressional Districts.

Candidates for all four Lakeland offices — two commissioners and two school board members — had easy victories as all of them were unopposed in Thursday’s elections.

The Associated Press reports Marsha Blackburn defeated state Rep. Gloria Johnson, who shot to fame last year after she was nearly expelled from the Statehouse for her participation in a gun control protest from the House floor.

The state’s two Republican U.S. senators, Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, both won their first elections behind endorsements from Trump.

Shelby County Elections Administrator Linda Phillips says it could be a long night for the local presidential general election vote count.

Several voters at Davis Community Center voted straight down the ballot for the Democratic party, citing their beliefs aligned most with those candidates. 

On the eve of the presidential election, one voter in Whitehaven returned to watching the televised debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump to help her decide who to vote for.

Some voters at a polling location at Second Baptist Church preferred Donald Trump, in contrast with another East Memphis church 2 miles away where voters said they favored Kamala Harris.

“Our office has reported it to the authorities for further investigation,” said Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett. 

Some say they’re excited about the prospect of the nation’s first woman president. But wording of the gun control referendums may have led to ballots cast against the measure they intended to support.

Voting traffic was steady Tuesday afternoon at One City Church in East Memphis. All of the voters who agreed to speak with The Daily Memphian said they cast ballots for Kamala Harris.

One voter said he voted for Kamala Harris because he saw her as strong and “borderline cocky,” which is what he felt she needed to deal with Trump. 

“It was busy at 7 a.m. I’m not hearing of lines anywhere,” Shelby County Elections Administrator Linda Phillips said at a noon update of polling locations across the county.

Early Tuesday morning in Bartlett at St. Ann Catholic Church and School at 6529 Stage Road, voters didn’t have to endure much of a wait time.

U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty blitzed Second Baptist Church in East Memphis and The Great Hall in Germantown Tuesday morning, Nov. 5, just ahead of a late morning rain.

At Whitehaven Community Center, a steady patter of foot traffic was in and out around 8 a.m.

State House District 97 candidate Jesse Huseth showed up around 10 a.m. to greet the small number of voters shuffling in and out of the Bert Ferguson Community Center in Cordova.