As Nashvillians head to the polls, there’s a good chance they’ll be voting in an entirely different congressional district than the one where they cast a ballot in 2024. This is due to this spring’s gerrymandering spearheaded by the Tennessee General Assembly’s Republican supermajority, which split Memphis — previously the state’s only Democratic stronghold and majority-Black district at the federal level — into three districts, subsequently affecting Nashville’s congressional lines.

This practice isn’t new. In fact, it’s the second time in the past four years legislators have redrawn the state’s congressional map to favor Republicans, with Democratic-leaning Nashville separated into three districts in 2022. 

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Darden Copeland
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Matt Van Epps
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Rep. Johnny Garrett