United States Senate special election in Tennessee, 1994

November 8, 1994



Nominee	Fred Thompson	Jim Cooper
Party	Republican	Democratic
Popular vote	885,998	565,930
Percentage	60.4%	38.6%

County results

U.S. Senator before election

Harlan Mathews
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Fred Thompson
Republican

The 1994 United States Senate special election in Tennessee was held on November 8, 1994. Al Gore resigned from the Senate when elected Vice President of the United States, and this led to the appointment of Harlan Mathews and the special election.^[1] Republican nominee Fred Thompson won the open seat.

Major candidates

Democratic

Jim Cooper, U.S. Representative

Republican

Fred Thompson, attorney and actor

Results

General election results^[2]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Republican	Fred Thompson	885,998	60.44%	+30.63%
	Democratic	Jim Cooper	565,930	38.61%	-29.12%
	Independent	Charles N. Hancock	4,169	0.28%
	Independent	Charles Moore	2,219	0.15%
	Independent	Terry Lytle	1,934	0.13%
	Independent	Kerry Martin	1,719	0.12%
	Independent	Jon Walls	1,532	0.10%
	Independent	Hobart Lumpkin	1,184	0.08%
	Independent	Don Schneller	1,150	0.08%
	Write-ins		27	0.00%
Majority			320,068	21.83%	-16.08%
Turnout			1,465,862
	Republican gain from Democratic

References

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