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1984 United States Senate election in Tennessee

The 1984 United States Senate election in Tennessee took place on November 6, 1984, to select the U.S. Senator from the state of Tennessee. Popular three-term Republican incumbent Howard Baker, who had served as United States Senate Majority Leader since 1981 decided not to seek re-election in order to concentrate on a planned bid for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination. This left the seat open.

Democratic Primary
Democrats nominated Representative and future Vice President Al Gore, whose father, Albert Gore, Sr., had once held Tennessee's other Senate seat. Results ==Republican primary==
Republican primary
CandidatesState Senator Victor Ashe • Jack McNeil • Hubert David Patty Results In the primary, held on August 2, Ashe easily emerged as a winner. ==General election==
General election
Although the Senate election coincided with the landslide re-election of President Reagan, who carried Tennessee by a wide margin, this time his victory did not have any coattails, as it did in 1980, and Democrats picked up three Republican seats. One of the Democratic gains was in Tennessee, where conservative Democrat Gore won in a landslide: By county == See also ==
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