Gary W Hicks Jr — 2026 Tennessee House, District 09 campaign
2026 Tennessee House, District 09 · totals since Jan 16, 2025
Won the nomination 8,735 votes · 100% reported results
Latest filing: Pre-General 2026 · Oct 26, 2026 · source: TN Registry of Election Finance
7 filings · Mid-Year 2025–Q3 2026
Cash on Hand The campaign’s ending cash balance from its most recent filing. Cash shown as “carried over” was held before this election cycle began — usually from a prior campaign for the same office. Full definition →
$287,501
$273,754 carried over
Receipts The sum of Total Receipts on the selected published reports. Open the receipt to check each report and any exclusions. Full definition →
$223,370
$3,900 refunded
Total Spent
$209,623
Donors
133
total donors; qualifying names are listed below
Who funds this campaign The sources split breaks down the receipts the headline adds up, by the lines of each report behind it; its parts add up to the headline. Open its “Why this number?” for each report’s lines. Gift-size and location figures cover itemized contributions only. Aggregates count everyone who gave, including donors below the $200 disclosure floor — a share across all donors identifies no one. Full definition →
Largest part: organizations and PACs, itemized, 93% of receipts on these reports.
Individuals, itemized $16K · 7%Organizations and PACs, itemized $212K · 93%
Loans, interest and other receipts, net of refunds: −$3,900. Shares are of the $227,270 before it.
Gift size Each individual donor’s total giving to this campaign this cycle. Organizations, PACs, and the candidate’s own money are excluded (this is about people); a donor who gave under several name spellings is counted once. A donor named on the page can still sit in a small bucket — these are cycle totals, not “unnamed donors.” Full definition →
$778average gift
$500median gift
20individual donors
Share of donors Share of dollars
Under $50
$50–200
$200–1K
$1K–5K
$5K+
Where the money comes from Shares of itemized dollars, by the contributor’s state and city as filed. A city is named only when at least 5 donors gave from it or it holds at least 5% of the located dollars; everyone else is grouped into “elsewhere.” Shown only when at least 80% of dollars carry a usable state. Full definition →
77% of located dollars came from within Tennessee (23% from out of state).
Tennessee $174,970 Out of state $52,300
- Nashville $81K36%
- Brentwood $32K14%
- Washington, DC $16K7%
- Madison $13K6%
- Franklin $10K4%
- Elsewhere in Tennessee $40K
- Other out-of-state $37K
Contributions & Spending Over Time
Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — Jan 2025 – Oct 2026. Peak $63,900 in Jan 2026. Spending peaked at $75,445 in Jan 2026.
Cash contributions Spent
Contributions
The donor total above includes everyone who gave. This table names 126 donors: organizations, and people whose cumulative giving reached $200. 7 people gave less than $200 in cash; their gifts total $600 and their names are withheld.
| Donor | Donations | Net |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon.com Services LLC PAC | 2 | $10,000.00 |
| Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of Tennessee PAC (WSWT) | 1 | $10,000.00 |
| HCA TriStar Fund PAC | 2 | $7,500.00 |
| Tennessee REALTORS PAC (RPAC) | 2 | $6,500.00 |
| Tennessee Hospital Association (THA) | 1 | $5,000.00 |
| Sports Betting Alliance | 1 | $5,000.00 |
| Tennessee First PAC | 2 | $5,000.00 |
| Tennessee Highway Contractors PAC | 1 | $5,000.00 |
| Butler Snow Good To Great Tennessee PAC | 2 | $5,000.00 |
| Blue Cross Blue Shield of TN PAC | 1 | $5,000.00 |
Dates
| Donor | Location | Employer | Amount | Date |
|---|
Expenditures
| Vendor | Payments | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| HIX PAC (Gary W. Hicks) | 1 | $50,000.00 | |
| Rogersville Review | 14 | $15,475.02 | |
| Hawkins County Republican Party | 5 | $10,600.00 | |
| Rogersville 4th of July Celebration | 2 | $10,000.00 | |
| Tennessee House Republican Caucus | 1 | $10,000.00 | |
| House Republican Caucus | 1 | $10,000.00 | |
| WRGS | 12 | $9,303.00 | |
| Cherokee High School | 14 | $7,856.65 | |
| Dynamic Effects & Fireworks | 2 | $5,600.00 | |
| Claiborne County Republican Party ↺ donor $1,900.00 | 2 | $5,000.00 | |
| Hawkins County Relay for Life | 2 | $4,500.00 | |
| Rogersville City School | 3 | $4,000.00 | |
| Rogersville Middle School | 3 | $3,300.00 | |
| Isaiah 117 House | 2 | $3,000.00 | |
| Four Square Inc. | 1 | $3,000.00 | |
| Hancock County Republican Party | 1 | $3,000.00 | |
| Rogersville County Chamber of Co | 4 | $2,350.00 | |
| First Century Bank | 4 | $2,166.05 | |
| Walmart ↺ donor $500.00 | 3 | $2,114.32 | |
| Soldiers Memorial Middle School | 1 | $2,000.00 | |
| Hawkins County Imagination Library Found | 2 | $2,000.00 | |
| Forgety, Brady | 1 | $1,900.00 | |
| Genesis Stitching | 1 | $1,861.36 | |
| Big H BBQ | 2 | $1,700.00 | |
| Rotary Club of Rogersville | 3 | $1,500.00 | |
| Great Smoky Mountain Council- Scouting | 2 | $1,500.00 | |
| Walking Horse Jubilee | 2 | $1,500.00 | |
| Hale Springs Inn | 14 | $1,358.68 | |
| Let R Rip Arena | 2 | $1,250.00 | |
| Mobuck Football Booster Club | 2 | $1,200.00 | |
| Music City Challenge Coins and Custom Ap | 1 | $1,173.35 | |
| Sam's Club | 5 | $1,092.75 | |
| Reeves, Lee | 1 | $1,041.98 | |
| Moorseburg Community Association | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Hancock County High School | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Hancock County Sideline Club | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Camp Hope of East TN | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Project Serve Our Soldiers | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Capley, Kip | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Powers, Dennis | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| White, Kimberly | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Garrett, Johnny | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Bulls Gap Booster Club | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Town of Bulls Gap | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Hawkins County Jr Chiefs | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Marathon Gas Quickstop | 11 | $751.32 | |
| Budget Car Rental | 2 | $606.61 | |
| Claiborne County Fair | 1 | $600.00 | |
| Sneedville Shopper | 1 | $600.00 | |
| Southwest Airlines | 1 | $588.97 | |
| Hawkins Organization for Performing Arts | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Tennessee Republican Party | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Shepards Chapel Wmu | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Friends of Hb Stamps Library | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Hawkins County Republican Committee ↺ donor $500.00 | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Chop House | 3 | $494.84 | |
| Volunteer High School | 1 | $400.00 | |
| Amazon | 3 | $366.10 | |
| Cowboys Steak House | 3 | $334.92 | |
| Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen | 1 | $316.08 | |
| The Ritz-Carlton, Naples | 1 | $308.62 | |
| Roberson Creek Baptist Church | 3 | $300.00 | |
| Green Tomato Grill | 3 | $297.15 | |
| Tennessee Jacks Morristown | 1 | $270.50 | |
| JW Marriott | 1 | $266.65 | |
| Bulls Gap Food Pantry | 1 | $250.00 | |
| Grainger County High School | 1 | $250.00 | |
| Asian Cuisine | 2 | $247.75 | |
| Party Bounce Rentals | 1 | $240.00 | |
| Holiday Inn Express | 1 | $231.80 | |
| Little Town Italian | 1 | $214.25 | |
| Murphy Oil | 4 | $212.57 | |
| Texas Roadhouse | 1 | $207.37 | |
| Rogersville Rotary Club | 1 | $200.00 | |
| Butcher's Chop House & Bar | 1 | $198.61 | |
| St Regis Deer Valley | 1 | $195.00 | |
| D & R Market | 3 | $192.06 | |
| Cheddars | 1 | $181.99 | |
| McGee Tyson Airport | 2 | $176.00 | |
| Tazewell Gas N Go | 3 | $169.36 | |
| Kingsport Publishing Co. | 11 | $165.00 | |
| Hicks, Gary | 1 | $162.40 | |
| Little Dutch Restaurant | 1 | $156.53 | |
| Clinch River Market | 2 | $143.56 | |
| Peking Restaurant | 1 | $141.00 | |
| Jonathan's Grille | 1 | $137.20 | |
| United Airlines | 1 | $128.98 | |
| Fraunces Tavern | 1 | $127.00 | |
| LongHorn Steakhouse | 1 | $115.78 | |
| Walgreens | 1 | $106.95 | |
| Food City | 2 | $106.05 | |
| Lakeview Grocery | 2 | $99.08 | |
| Marcom Core | 1 | $98.52 | |
| Map of Bna Nashville International Airpo | 1 | $93.00 | |
| Delta Knoxville | 2 | $90.00 | |
| Johnson City Press | 6 | $90.00 | |
| State of Tennessee | 1 | $90.00 | |
| Tazewell Bp | 1 | $85.80 | |
| Middlesboro Daily News | 1 | $85.00 | |
| Label Restaurant | 1 | $80.23 | |
| Lee's Food Mart | 1 | $76.34 | |
| Coffee At the Kyle | 1 | $72.35 | |
| Cracker Barrelll | 1 | $71.03 | |
| ExxonMobil | 1 | $69.98 | |
| Shell | 1 | $62.82 | |
| Red Dog On Main | 1 | $57.30 | |
| Dollar Tree | 2 | $40.79 | |
| Zaxbys | 1 | $40.48 | |
| Junior's Restaurant & Bakery | 1 | $39.46 | |
| Country Cooks | 1 | $37.87 | |
| Pilot | 1 | $30.99 | |
| George's | 1 | $28.00 | |
| Wal-Mart.Com | 1 | $27.22 | |
| Chick Fil A | 1 | $24.67 | |
| Arby's | 1 | $24.03 | |
| The Great American Bagel Bakery | 1 | $19.16 | |
| Riverside Market | 1 | $19.02 | |
| United States Postal Service | 1 | $17.45 | |
| 8th and Roast | 1 | $12.56 | |
| Buc-ee's | 1 | $11.16 | |
| Starbucks | 1 | $9.35 | |
| Chick-fil-A | 1 | $8.34 | |
| Burger King | 1 | $6.94 | |
| McDonald's | 1 | $2.07 |
Dates
| Payee | Location | Purpose | Amount | Date |
|---|
Where the money went Each expenditure carries a short description of what it was for, written by the campaign. We sort those descriptions into a fixed set of categories; one expenditure goes in one category, so the amounts add up to Gary W Hicks Jr’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.
- Contributions & donations $83,899 40%
- Transfers between accounts $50,000 24%
- Advertising & media $33,759 16%
- Office & operations $16,622 8%
- Fundraising & events $11,040 5%
- Other $8,015 4%
- Travel $3,755 2%
- Staff & payroll $2,500 1%
- Printing & mail $17 0.1%
- Consulting & professional services $15 0.1%
Filing History
Totals as filed with the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance; see About for how this data is processed.
| Filing | Cash Beginning | Cash Ending | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-General 2026 | $279,121.12 | $287,500.56 | Source: Pre-General 2026 filing Report 130482 |
| Q3 2026 | $277,577.01 | $279,121.12 | Source: Q3 2026 filing Report 129382 |
| Pre-Primary 2026 | $267,976.67 | $277,577.01 | Source: Pre-Primary 2026 filing Report 128475 |
| Q2 2026 | $286,432.70 | $267,976.67 | Source: Q2 2026 filing Report 126814 |
| Q1 2026 | $304,550.70 | $286,432.70 | Source: Q1 2026 filing Report 125382 |
| Year-End 2025 Amended | $245,854.67 | $304,550.70 | Source: Year-End 2025 filing Report 124113 |
| Mid-Year 2025 | $273,753.50 | $245,854.67 | Source: Mid-Year 2025 filing Report 122551 |