DemocratNot in office · last served 2022Last on a ballot: Nov 2020

Jim Cooper

Jim Cooper ran in 17 elections between 1982 and 2020, winning 16. Served in the U.S. House (TN-4 and TN-5).

Career

Offices held, and every time Cooper was on a ballot. Filled marks are general elections won; hollow marks are primaries; an orange outline is a loss.

198419881992199620002004200820122016202020242028U.S. House, TN-4 U.S. House, TN-5Out of office

Margin: how far Cooper finished ahead of (+) or behind (−) the runner-up.

Year	Office	Stage	Result	Opponents	Share	Margin	Raised
2020	U.S. House, TN-5	General	Won	Natisha Brooks (I), Trevor Killian Murphy (I)	100%	D+100.0	$939.7K
2018	U.S. House, TN-5	General	Won	Jody M. Ball (R)	67.8%	D+35.7	$559.9K
2016	U.S. House, TN-5	General	Won	Stacy Ries Snyder (R)	62.6%	D+25.1	$654K
2014	U.S. House, TN-5	General	Won	Bob Ries (R), Paul Deakin (I)	62.3%	D+26.6	$762.3K
2012	U.S. House, TN-5	General	Won	Brad Staats (R), John P. Miglietta (G)	65.2%	D+32.5	$1.2M
2010	U.S. House, TN-5	General	Won	David Hall (R), Stephen W. Collings (I), John "big John" Smith (I)	56.2%	D+14.2	$1M
2008	U.S. House, TN-5	General	Won	Gerard Donovan (R), Jon Jackson (I), John P. Miglietta (I)	65.8%	D+34.8	$637.4K
2006	U.S. House, TN-5	General	Won	Thomas F. Kovach (R), Ginny Welsch (I), Scott Knapp (I)	69%	D+41.1	$772.3K
2004	U.S. House, TN-5	General	Won	Scott Knapp (R)	69.3%	D+38.5	$1.1M
2002	U.S. House, TN-5	General	Won	Robert Duvall (R), John Jay Hooker (I), Jonathan D. Farley (I)	63.7%	D+30.5	$2M
1994	U.S. Senate, Tennessee (special)	Special	Lost	Fred Thompson (R), Charles N. Hancock (I), Charles M. Moore (I)	38.6%	R+21.8	$4M
1992	U.S. House, TN-4	General	Won	Dale Johnson (R), Ginnia C. Fox (I), Kieven Parks (I)	64.1%	D+31.5	$164.1K
1990	U.S. House, TN-4	General	Won	Claiborne "clay" Sanders (R), Gene M. Bullington (I)	67.4%	D+37.8	$183.5K
1988	U.S. House, TN-4	General	Won	Unopposed	100%	—	$292.8K
1986	U.S. House, TN-4	General	Won	Unopposed	100%	—	$147.6K
1984	U.S. House, TN-4	General	Won	James Beau Seigneur (R)	75.2%	D+50.3	$491.6K
1982	U.S. House, TN-4	General	Won	Cissy Baker (R)	66.1%	D+32.3	$565.4K