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Rutherford County Board of Education, Zone 4

Rutherford County School District, Tennessee

My vote power

High

Election date

August 6, 2026 · General election

How do we calculate my vote power?

What goes into the rating: Representation: how much weight one vote carries here compared with a statewide vote — the smaller the district, the more each vote counts. Decisiveness: how likely this race is to be close, based on past results or current analyst ratings, plus the number of candidates.

Representation: High · 66 out of 100

This district is a small slice of its state, so each vote here carries much more weight than a vote in a statewide race. About 199,454 people live here.

Show the representation math

score = 50 + 50 × ln(state population ÷ this district's) ÷ ln(50,000) = 50 + 50 × ln(7,066,383 ÷ 199,454) ÷ ln(50,000) = 66.49, measured against a statewide vote in TN (grades: 66+ high, 55+ above average, 33+ average, otherwise low; a statewide race is the 50 baseline)

Decisiveness: Unknown

No analyst ratings or past results for this contest yet.

High representation → My vote power: High.

Some data is missing, so this rating is based on partial information and capped at "High".

About this office

  • Deciding how school district money is spent
  • Picking the superintendent
  • Choosing curriculum, within state rules

Affects: Government Efficiency, Government Spending Reduction, Public Safety and Crime Control,

Candidates

Brian Hall

Lost

Democratic · lost

Brian Hall of Smyrna is the Democratic nominee for Rutherford County Board of Education Zone 4 in the partisan August 6, 2026 general election, challenging Republican incumbent Katie Darby. He has not previously held elected office.

Dayna Nichols

Lost

Independent · lost

Dayna Nichols is an independent candidate for Rutherford County Board of Education Zone 4 in the partisan August 6, 2026 general election. A career educator, she is the principal of Rockvale Elementary School and plans to retire at the end of the school year. She has not previously held elected office.

Katie Darby

Won

Republican · Incumbent · won

Katie Darby is the Republican incumbent for Rutherford County Board of Education Zone 4, seeking re-election in the partisan August 6, 2026 general election. A parent advocate first elected to the board in August 2022, she won her May 2026 Republican primary and faces Democrat Brian Hall and independent Dayna Nichols.

Results

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