United States Senate election in Tennessee, 2000

United States Senate election in Tennessee, 2000

November 7, 2000

Nominee Bill Frist Jeff Clark Party Republican Democratic Popular vote 1,255,444 621,152 Percentage 65.1% 32.2%

U.S. Senator before election Bill Frist Republican Elected U.S. Senator Bill Frist Republican

The 2000 United States Senate election in Tennessee took place on November 7, 2000. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Bill Frist won re-election to a second term.

Democratic primary

The Democratic primary was held August 3, 2000. In a field of five candidates, Jeff Clark, a professor at Middle Tennessee State University, edged out John Jay Hooker to win the nomination.^[1][2]

Tennessee Democratic primary for United States Senate, 2000[2]
Candidate		Votes	%	±%
Jeff Clark		64,851	34%
John Jay Hooker		64,041	34%
Mary Taylor-Shelby		28,604	15%
Shannon Wood		25,372	13%
James Looney		6,354	3%
Write-ins		218	0%

Republican primary

• Bill Frist, incumbent U.S. Senator, was unopposed in the Republican primary. He received 186,882 votes.^[2]

General election

Tennessee United States Senate election, 2000[3]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Republican	Bill Frist (inc.)	1,255,444	65.1%
	Democratic	Jeff Clark	621,152	32.2%
	Green	Tom Burrell	25,815	1.3%
	Independent	Charles F. Johnson	10,004	0.5%
	Independent	Robert Watson	8,416	0.4%
	Independent	David Jarrod Ownby	4,388	0.2%
	Independent	Joel Kinstle	3,135	0.2%
	Write-in		259	0.0%
Majority
Turnout
	Republican hold		Swing

References

• "2000 Senatorial General Election Results - Tennessee". www.uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved 2009-08-09.

1. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vRsfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PaYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3638,586145&dq=jeff+clark+tennessee&hl=en
2. "On Politics: Tennessee U.S. Senate". Washington Post.
3. http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/2000/2000Stat.htm

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