Montgomery County’s political shift: Democrats gain, GOP holds
As United States voters watched states flip from red to blue in what's been named the 'blue wave,' Tennesseans saw five counties flip in the governor's race. The state also flipped a state House seat and narrowed the Republican advantage in a U.S. House contest. Montgomery County was one of the five counties that reported a democratic majority in the governor's race, flipped the state House seat and closed the gap on a federal House seat. Although Republicans still hold a supermajority in Tennessee, the Nov. 3 election showed that the state might be bluer than some people realized. Montgomery County’s election results offered Democrats a breakthrough on Nov. 3, but it was not a clean sweep. This is how Montgomery County's political landscape has changed in the last decade. Governor votes In the last decade, Tennessee gubernatorial candidates could plan to see a red turnout as Republican candidates held the county with a majority, the lowest at least 53% in 16 years. Former Gov. Bill Haslam won the county with 61.75% of the vote in 2010 and 69.32% in 2014. During Gov. Bill Lee's first election in 2018, he won the county with 53.96% of the vote as compared
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