Tennessee Senate District 3
State Senate District 3; Tennessee
My vote power
High
Election date
August 6, 2026 · Primary 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 211,169 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 ÷ 211,169) ÷ ln(50,000) = 66.22, 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
- Voting on how much you pay in state taxes
- Voting on how much money your local public schools get
- Voting on which roads and highways get built or repaired
Affects: AI Regulation, Healthcare Affordability, Environment and Public Health,
Candidates
Republican · declared
Dan Pohlgeers received his B.S. in Occupational Therapy from Eastern Kentucky University in 1990 and became a Certified Hand Therapist in 2000. He earned an MBA from Milligan College in 2006 and became administrator of a free standing orthopaedic hand therapy and surgery office in Johnson City.
Records: Corporate Accountability 1 for, Healthcare Affordability 1 for, Women's Reproductive Rights 1 against
Republican · Incumbent · declared
Rusty Crowe is a Republican from Johnson City, born in 1947, who holds a B.S. in Criminal Justice from East Tennessee State University and a J.D. from Atlanta Law School. He served in the U.S. Army in Southeast Asia 1967-71.
Records: Civil Rights 3 for, 5 against, Public Safety and Crime Control 6 for, Corporate Accountability 4 for, 1 against,
Sources: wcecoffice.com2 · ballotready.org