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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 9, 2022

Former Maury County Mayor Andy Ogles beat Democrat Heidi Campbell in Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District, turning the district red for the first time in its recorded history and giving Republicans another seat in Congress, WPLN reports. Ogles will replace Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper, who announced he would not run for re-election after the Republican-led General Assembly changed the 5th District’s boundaries in January, splitting up Nashville’s reliably Democratic voting base. In other congressional races, both District 6 Rep. John Rose and District 7 Rep. Mark Green easily won over their Democratic challengers, Tennessee Lookout reports.