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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Nov 9, 2022

All 99 seats in the Tennessee House of Representatives and half of the 33 seats in the state Senate were on the ballot this election season. In many cases, incumbents had a lock on their races, Nashville Public Radio reports. Coverage from the station includes news about the race to succeed disgraced former House Speaker Glen Casada, the new youngest member of the General Assembly, a replacement for indicted Republican Sen. Brian Kelsey, and the likelihood of a special election in Memphis after voters re-elected state Rep. Barbara Cooper, who died in October after ballots including her name were printed. The Commercial Appeal has election results from west Tennessee while KnoxNews has results in the east.