Democrats choose a candidate for special elections at the Tennessee Congress

The Democrats chose their candidate on Tuesday during a special election at the Congress for a vacant seat in Tennessee.

AFTYN Behn, former organizer of the health care community and current representative of the Democratic State, won the appointment of her party, according to the Associated Press. The Dickson County Democratic Party described Behn as “our own Tennessee AOC”, in reference to the American representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dn.y., according to Tennessee Star.

The main group included three representatives of the State and a consultant from the 7th Congress district, solidly red in Tennessee.

Behn will now be considered the oppressed during the general elections of December 2 in the race for the succession of former republican representative Mark Green, who resigned from his functions in June to hold a position in the private sector.

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AFTYN Behn, representative of the state of Tennessee, is addressed to members of the public before the start of a Democratic Party forum for candidates for the special election of the 7th Congress district at the Fairview Recreation Center, in Fairview, on Sunday, September 7, 2025. (Alan Poizner-Pour The Tennessean / USA TODAY network via Imagn Images)

President Donald Trump won the district, located in the center and west of Tennessee and extending from Kentucky to Alabama, about 20 points in the presidential election last year.

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A special election takes place in the 7th district of the Tennessee Congress to provide the seat left vacant when the republican representative Mark Green resigned from the House of Representatives of the United States in June to hold a position in the private sector. (Photo AP/J. Scott Applewhite, back)

Trump’s immense political influence in the republican inauguration races was put to the test on Tuesday during a crowded and competitive republican primary. This after the president approved last week Matt Van EPP, former commissioner of the Tennessee General Services Department and one of the 11 names registered on the ballot during the GOP primary. Van EPP claimed the victory on Tuesday.

AFTYN Behn D-Nashville, representative of the state of Tennessee, is addressed to a member of the press at the Cordell Hull State Office Building in Nashville, Tennessee, Tuesday March 12, 2024. (Nicole Hester / Le Tennessean / Network USA TODAY)

The Republicans are currently controlling Chamber 219-213, with two vacant seats: the headquarters of the Tennessee and the 18th District of the Texas Congress, following the death earlier of the Democratic representative Sylvester Turner.

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The elected democratic representative Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election at the Congress in Arizona last month, has not yet taken oath.