Certified returns for every federal race in Tennessee in 1998, as published by the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. 9 of 9 congressional races match the totals printed in the Clerk's own recapitulation.
U.S. House of Representatives
District 1
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
William L. Jenkins
Republican
68,904
69.1%
Kay C. White
Democrat
30,710
30.8%
Write-in
75
0.1%
Total
99,689
District 2
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
John J. Duncan, Jr.
Republican
90,860
88.6%
Robert O. Watson
Independent
4,372
4.3%
Greg Samples
Independent
4,332
4.2%
George Njezic
Independent
2,920
2.8%
Write-in
18
0.0%
Total
102,502
District 3
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Zach Wamp
Republican
75,100
66.0%
James M. Lewis, Jr.
Democrat
37,144
32.6%
Richard M. (Dick) Sims
Independent
1,468
1.3%
Write-in
74
0.1%
Total
113,786
District 4
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Van Hilleary
Republican
62,829
59.6%
Jerry W. Cooper
Democrat
42,627
40.4%
Write-in
23
0.0%
Total
105,479
District 5
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Bob Clement
Democrat
74,611
82.8%
William M. Lancaster
Independent
6,162
6.8%
Al Borgman
Independent
4,983
5.5%
Gary I. Worden
Independent
4,345
4.8%
Write-in
1
0.0%
Total
90,102
District 6
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Bart Gordon
Democrat
75,055
54.6%
Walt Massey
Republican
62,277
45.3%
Write-in
104
0.1%
Total
137,436
District 7
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Ed Bryant
Republican
91,503
99.5%
Write-in
477
0.5%
Total
91,980
District 8
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
John S. Tanner
Democrat
76,803
100.0%
Write-in
22
0.0%
Total
76,825
District 9
Candidate
Party
Votes
Share
Harold E. Ford, Jr.
Democrat
75,428
78.7%
Claude Burdikoff
Republican
18,078
18.9%
Gwendolyn L. Moore
Independent
932
1.0%
Johnny Kelly
Independent
775
0.8%
Greg Voehringer
Independent
567
0.6%
Write-in
2
0.0%
Total
95,782
Source
Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives
Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election, 1998 — Official source · Archived copy SHA-256 4424a7d1a5954439ffb09f1de5f11a45fe06c6cc7cd2885c7e7beb0ee4ff4b58
Shares are of all votes listed for the race, including write-ins and, where a state reports them, blank and void ballots.