Election Day 2026 in photos

Nov 04, 2026 | 7:38 pm ET

By J. Holly McCall

Election Day 2026 in photos

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who won the Tennessee governor's race in a narrow victory, embraces conservative talk show host Clay Travis at her Nov. 3, 2026 Election Night party. (Photo by John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)

Election Day 2026 in photos — Velma Farris, age 102, right, smiles as she waits for a voting booth to open at Nashville’s Shelby Community Center. Her daughter, Vicky Greve, left, said her mother’s first vote was in 1944 for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (Photo by John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)

Election Day 2026 in photos — Democrat Mark Proctor, a former Tennessee Highway Patrol colonel, greets voters at Thurgood Marshall Middle School in Nashville on Nov. 3, 2026. Proctor defeated Republican Bill Hancock to hold House District 59 for Democrats. (Photo by John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)

Election Day 2026 in photos — Dr. Laura Andreson, left, laughs with volunteer Jennifer Hamilton at a Nolensville, Tennessee polling place. Andreson, a Democrat, ran against Republican Rep. Jake McAlmon but lost in her second attempt to take House District 63.. (Photo by J. Holly McCall/Tennessee Lookout)

Election Day 2026 in photos — Voters line up inside the gym at A.Z. Kelley Elementary School in Antioch, Tennessee, on Nov. 3, 2026. (Photo by John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)

Election Day 2026 in photos — State Sen. Bo Watson, a Hixson Republican, did some last-minute campaigning outside a Signal Mountain polling place in Hamilton County, Tennessee on Nov. 3, 2026. (Photo by Ruby Rayner for Tennessee Lookout)

Election Day 2026 in photos — Tennessee state Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson talks to a colleague at the election night party for U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s gubernatorial campaign on Nov. 3, 2026. Johnson is in a tight race to be the next state Senate speaker. (Photo by John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)

Election Day 2026 in photos — Anna Golladay, Democratic nominee for the 3rd Congressional District, speaks to supporters at The Signal in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Nov. 3, 2026. Golladay lost to incumbent U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleishmann, a Republican. (Photo by Ben Sessoms for Tennessee Lookout)

Election Day 2026 in photos — Volunteers for U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s gubernatorial campaign watch election results come in at her celebration in downtown Nashville on Nov. 3, 2026. (Photo by John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)

Election Day 2026 in photos — “This was just one battle for our state, and it was not the end of the fight,” said Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jerri Green, conceding the race to U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn on Nov. 3, 2026, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (Photo by Ben Sessoms for Tennessee Lookout)

Election Day 2026 in photos — U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, acknowledging supporters at her downtown Nashville victory party, was elected to be Tennessee’s first woman governor on Nov. 3, 2026. (Photo by John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)

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