Election results: Blackburn wins Tennessee's Senate seat. See the vote totals
Incumbent Sen. Marsha Blackburn has largely ignored her challenger in campaigning while state Rep. Gloria Johnson has worked to turn her national prominence as a member of the Tennessee Three into a movement to galvanize Democrats. Blackburn secured a win in Tennessee's senate race, according to early Associated Press returns.
Blackburn, 72, is the first woman to represent Tennessee in the U.S. Senate. She was elected in 2018 after beating Nashville Democrat Phil Bredesen, a former governor, with 55% of the vote. Before that, she served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 16 years.
Johnson, 62, is a former educator. She was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives in 2012. She lost in 2014 and 2016, and won again in 2018 and 2020. When Tennessee's GOP-led Senate combined Knoxville's two Democratic-leaning state House districts, they carved Johnson out of District 13. Johnson moved and won the newly created District 90 in 2022.
Johnson is the first East Tennessean to run for statewide office since Randy Boyd ran for governor in 2018.
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This article originally appeared on Knoxville News Sentinel: Election results: Here's who won Tennessee's U.S. Senate seat: Blackburn
