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Knoxville sales tax increase and city council election results for 2025

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Knoxville voters head to the polls Nov. 4 to select five new city council representatives and decide whether to increase the city’s sales tax to pay for affordable housing, greenways, street paving and sidewalks.

Check back after the polls close at 8 p.m. with updated numbers as they are posted by election officials!

These totals reflect absentee and early voting ballots plus all 52 precincts reporting. Here are the Knoxville election results:

Knoxville sales tax increase results

Shall the two and one-quarter percent (2.25%) local option sales tax rate currently levied throughout Knox County be increased to two and three-quarters percent (2.75%) in the City of Knoxville?

For: 9,546

Against: 15,284

Knoxville City Council election results

District 1

Karyn Adams: 1,933

Becky Jones: 948

District 2

Nathan Honeycutt: 3,662

Melody Watts: 2,289

District 3

Doug Lloyd: 2,147

Frank Ramey: 1,928

District 4

Matthew DeBardelaben: 3,530

Jeff Talman: 2,556

District 6

Denzel Grant: 1,685

Stan Johnson: 1,095

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