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Tennessee District 08 candidates

Updated October 24, 2026

Tennessee District 08 roster

Tennessee District 08 lists 9 public candidate profiles.

3 certified roster rows for Tennessee District 08 did not match a public profile.

Party counts

Democratic: 5
Independent: 2
Nonpartisan: 1
Republican: 1

Office counts

U.S. House: 9

Candidates

Candidate	Party	Ballot status	Profile status	Race status	Election system	FEC candidate id	Cycle	Sourced claims	Valid citations	Primary sources	Latest source	First seen	Last seen	Certified ballot status	Roster source	Retrieved
Adam D Austill	Nonpartisan	challenger	Active candidate	discovered	other	H6TN08383	2026	2	2	2	October 6, 2026	June 4, 2026	October 6, 2026	general_nominee	sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com	October 18, 2026
Antonio Futch	Independent	challenger	Active candidate	discovered	other	H6TN08391	2026	4	4	4	October 6, 2026	June 16, 2026	October 6, 2026	general_nominee	sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com	October 18, 2026
David Kustoff	Republican	incumbent	Active candidate	discovered	other	H2TN07103	2026	6,263	6,263	6,263	October 24, 2026	May 7, 2026	October 6, 2026	general_nominee	sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com	October 18, 2026
Dewey Gordon Bryan	Democratic	challenger	Active candidate	discovered	other	H6TN08359	2026	17	17	17	October 6, 2026	May 5, 2026	October 6, 2026
Heidi Kuhn	Democratic	challenger	Active candidate	discovered	other	H6TN08367	2026	3	3	3	October 6, 2026	May 25, 2026	October 6, 2026	general_nominee	sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com	October 18, 2026
Henry J. Ward, III	Independent													general_nominee	sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com	October 18, 2026
Horace Taylor	Independent	challenger	Active candidate	discovered	other	H6TN08342	2026	17	17	17	October 6, 2026	May 7, 2026	October 6, 2026	general_nominee	sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com	October 18, 2026
Jordan Daniel Hinders	Democratic	challenger	Active candidate	discovered	other	H6TN08375	2026	2	2	2	October 6, 2026	June 2, 2026	October 6, 2026
Leonard Perkins	Democratic	challenger	Active candidate	discovered	other	H4TN08115	2026	3	3	3	October 6, 2026	May 6, 2026	October 6, 2026
Pamela Jeanine "P." Moses	Independent													general_nominee	sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com	October 18, 2026
Wendell "Wells" Blankenship	Independent													general_nominee	sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com	October 18, 2026
William Davis Wicker	Democratic	challenger	Active candidate	discovered	other	H6TN08334	2026	29	29	29	October 6, 2026	May 5, 2026	October 6, 2026

Election dates

Certified 2026 general-election list for Tennessee District 08: 8 rows from sos-prod.tnsosgovfiles.com. Retrieved October 18, 2026.

Stored fields

Stored status "challenger" is on file for Adam D Austill, Antonio Futch, Dewey Gordon Bryan, Heidi Kuhn, Horace Taylor, Jordan Daniel Hinders, Leonard Perkins, and William Davis Wicker.
Stored status "incumbent" is on file for David Kustoff.
An FEC candidate id is stored for 9 profiles, including Adam D Austill, Antonio Futch, David Kustoff, Dewey Gordon Bryan, Heidi Kuhn, Horace Taylor, Jordan Daniel Hinders, and Leonard Perkins, and 1 more.
9 of 9 profiles with a list-index row have a sourced-claim count above zero.
Cycle year 2026 is on file for 9 profiles.
Source times on file run from October 6, 2026 to October 24, 2026.
9 profiles have a stored summary.
1 profile has a photo on file.
9 profiles have the stored legacy-profile flag.
Profile record updates on this page run from October 6, 2026 to October 18, 2026.

Adjacent districts

District 07 18 profiles on that district hub.
District 09 8 profiles on that district hub.

Related hubs

Tennessee candidates 149 profiles in the public state counts.
Tennessee U.S. House 111 profiles on that race hub.

Sources

2026 certified nominees 8 rows for Tennessee District 08 are in the certified 2026 general-election dataset.
Research methodology Tennessee District 08 cites 9 FEC candidate ids, 9 stored source times, and 8 certified roster rows.
Trust and corrections Corrections for public records cited on Tennessee District 08.