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109th Lineup: 5 D, 4 R
108th Lineup: 5 D, 4 R
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Tennessee's Democratic legislature controlled redistricting after the 2000 Census; Republican Governor Don Sundquist's veto could be overridden by majority votes in both houses. But in January 2002 the Democrats, with help from 6th District Democrat Bart Gordon, drew lines which were agreed to by most Republicans. The congressional district plan cut across party lines far more often than ever before in Tennessee. It took six Democratic-leaning counties out of Republican Zach Wamp's 3d District and placed them in the 4th District, whose incumbent Republican Van Hilleary was running for governor. That enabled Democratic state Senator Lincoln Davis to win the 4th: He led by only 2,000 votes in the counties formerly in the district, but by nearly 8,000 in the counties added, and would surely have trailed in the Republican East Tennessee counties that were subtracted. Heavily Republican Williamson County south of Nashville was taken out of Gordon's 6th and split between the 4th and the heavily Republican 7th District.