The Tennessee House of Representatives 21st district in the United States is one of 99
legislative districts
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included in the
lower house of the
Tennessee General Assembly. It covers the northern and central portions of
Monroe County Monroe County may refer to seventeen counties in the United States, all named for James Monroe:
* Monroe County, Alabama
*Monroe County, Arkansas
* Monroe County, Florida
* Monroe County, Georgia
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, such as
Vonore,
Madisonville, and
Sweetwater; and the southern and central portions of
Loudon County, such as
Greenback,
Philadelphia
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, and
Loudon. The district has been represented by
Lowell Russell, since 2019.
Demographics
* 90.1% of the district is
Caucasian
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Anthropology
*Anything from the Caucasus region
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** ''Caucasian Exarchate'' (1917–1920), an ecclesiastical exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Caucasus region
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Languages
* Northwest Caucasian l ...
* 1.8% of the district is
African American
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* 3.6% of the district is
Hispanic
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* 0.5% of the district is
Asian-American
* 1.5% of the district is
mixed
* 0.2% of district is other
Representatives
Recent election results
The following are the recent election results for the district. The incumbent representative, Russell, has run unopposed in both primaries and general elections since 2020.
2022
2020
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References
Tennessee House of Representatives districts