1994Flipped from DemocraticFinal resultsIncumbent defeated
1994 election for Tennessee House District 8
Tennessee House of Representatives · Tennessee
Bill Clabough (R) won with 53.6% of the vote, defeating Mae S. Owenby (D) by 11.4 points, a seat Democrats won last time.
Bill ClaboughRepublican · winner
53.6%7,940
Mae S. OwenbyDemocrat · incumbent
42.1%6,244
Ronald E. KiddIndependent
4.3%631
14,815 votes
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET
The seat over time
D − R margin in this seat's races around 1994
Races before and after
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET