Tennessee state Senate districts are required to be numbered consecutively in counties with more than one district — Davidson County, home to Nashville, instead houses districts 17, 19, 20, and 21.

Gov. Bill Lee, Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett and Tennessee Coordinator of Elections Mark Goins took another court loss when a three-judge panel struck down Tennessee’s Senate map just ...

In 2022, state lawmakers, led by a GOP supermajority, redrew the map in a way that splintered Davidson County into three congressional districts that included parts of surrounding counties.

The current map has districts 17, 19, 20 and 21 all within Davidson County, meaning three of the four senators representing Davidson County face reelection in the same year.