Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District special election will be held on Dec. 2. Here's what to know and how to keep up with results.

Republican Matt Van Epps has won a special election in Tennessee for a seat in the U.S. House. Van Epps was backed by President Donald Trump.

One political analysts says the results are a “very, very bad omen for Republicans and a very, very good omen for Democrats."

Republican Matt Van Epps won the Tennessee 7th Congressional special election, but Aftyn Behn's overperformance has Democrats celebrating, too, and sets up an affordability focus in the 2026 midterms.

Trafalgar Group chief pollster Robert Cahaly said Republican Matt Van Epps' nine-point margin of victory in last night's special election for Tennessee's seventh congressional district, where Trump won by 22 points last year,

Republican Matt Van Epps, a military veteran and former state general services commissioner, defeated Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn by 9 percentage points on Tuesday for the seat vacated by Republican Mark Green, who retired over the summer. Green had won reelection in 2024 by 21 percentage points.

On Feb 6, 2022, Tennessee's current congressional map went into effect, redrawing District 7. Districts 4, 5 and 6 were redrawn to split up Davidson, Williamson and Wilson counties. Nashville, historically a Democratic stronghold, was then broken up into three congressional districts.

Van Epps defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn, NBC News projects, after an expensive campaign to replace former Rep. Mark Green.

Voters in Tennessee elected Republican Matt Van Epps to fill a vacant U.S. House of Representatives seat, U.S. media outlets projected on Tuesday, padding the narrow lead by President Donald Trump's party in the chamber heading into next year's midterm elections.