Scott DesJarlais needs to win 49.5% of the remaining vote to catch or overtake Victoria Broderick in Tennessee House District 4, a live race that is still too close to call. Broderick leads as the count continues in the Tennessee House District 4 Midterm Election 2026.
That makes DesJarlais the name readers are searching now: he is the candidate who must erase a live deficit with a very specific share of what is left. The current count is also notable because the race has shifted 24.42 points toward Democrats compared with the 2024 presidential election, a swing that signals how far this district has moved since then.
Live results from NBC News, using data from The and projections from the NBC News Decision Desk, show the race as an in-progress count rather than a finished result. The vote-shift comparison is shown only once enough of the expected vote is in for a county, and the expected vote itself is an estimate built from early ballots and information provided by county election officials on Election Day.
That is why the 49.5% figure matters so much. DesJarlais does not need a small break; he needs nearly half of what is still out there, and Broderick’s lead means the remaining ballots have to break his way at almost exactly that level for him to catch up or move ahead. The math leaves little room for error.
The unanswered question is not whether the race is alive — it is — but whether the remaining vote is enough for DesJarlais to close the gap before the count is done. Until then, Broderick remains in front, and the final outcome hangs on how the rest of the expected vote is distributed.
