John Ray Clemmons — 2026 Tennessee House, District 55 campaign
2026 Tennessee House, District 55 · totals since Jan 16, 2025
Won the nomination 3,515 votes · 100% reported results
Latest filing: Pre-General 2026 · Oct 27, 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 →
$111,478
$98,697 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 →
$175,710
includes $1,620 in small gifts the filer reported as a lump sum
Loan entries in filing detail: $72,000. The report totals above govern this headline.
Itemized in-kind Goods or services donated to the campaign instead of cash — say, free printing or donated consulting — reported at fair-market value. Counted toward the same $200 disclosure threshold as cash gifts. This figure adds the in-kind contributions itemized on the selected reports. The Registry reports in-kind apart from receipts, so it is not part of the receipts figure. Full definition →
$12,957
goods or services itemized on these reports
Total Spent
$162,929
Donors
204
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: individuals, itemized, 60% of receipts on these reports.
Individuals, itemized $106K · 60%Organizations and PACs, itemized $68K · 39%
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 →
$702average gift
$500median gift
151individual 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 →
87% of located dollars came from within Tennessee (13% from out of state).
Tennessee $152,040 Out of state $22,050
- Nashville $98K56%
- Brentwood $14K8%
- Washington, DC $10K6%
- Lebanon $8K4%
- Murfreesboro $6K3%
- Elsewhere in Tennessee $27K
- Other out-of-state $12K
Contributions & Spending Over Time
Itemized monetary contributions and expenditures by month — Feb 2025 – Oct 2026. Peak $43,240 in Aug 2026. Spending peaked at $88,712 in Oct 2026.
Cash contributions Spent
Bars show $172,590 of $174,090 in itemized contributions. The other $1,500 can’t be placed in a month — the filing gave no usable date, or recorded no identifiable source.
Contributions
The donor total above includes everyone who gave. This table names 180 donors: organizations, and people whose cumulative giving reached $200. 25 people gave less than $200 in cash; their gifts total $2,600 and their names are withheld.
| Donor | Donations | Net |
|---|---|---|
| Tennessee Democratic Party In-Kind ↺ paid $15,000.00 | 2 | $12,956.80 |
| Tennessee Medical Association PAC (TMA) | 2 | $6,000.00 |
| Amazon.com Services LLC PAC | 2 | $5,000.00 |
| Tennessee Hospital Association (THA) | 2 | $5,000.00 |
| Tennessee REALTORS PAC (RPAC) | 2 | $4,000.00 |
| Janet Lawson | 2 | $3,800.00 |
| Kathy Olsen | 2 | $3,800.00 |
| Phillip Lawson | 2 | $3,800.00 |
| Timothy Howell | 2 | $3,800.00 |
| Burton Jablin | 2 | $3,400.00 |
Dates 1 contribution without a reported date will be excluded when a date is set.
| Donor | Location | Employer | Amount | Date |
|---|
Expenditures
| Vendor | Payments | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Counterpoint Messaging | 1 | $70,000.00 | |
| Tennessee Democratic Party ↺ donor $12,956.80 | 3 | $15,000.00 | |
| NGP VAN | 9 | $11,716.22 | |
| Triumph Strategies | 2 | $8,983.04 | |
| Epicnine | 24 | $7,433.67 | |
| Escobar, Jonathan | 2 | $5,000.00 | |
| Davidson County Democratic Party | 3 | $4,000.00 | |
| Actblue | 36 | $3,078.16 | |
| Glencliff Neighbors | 1 | $2,500.00 | |
| Printing Etc | 2 | $2,351.50 | |
| Something Inked LLC | 1 | $2,302.99 | |
| Bumgardner Photography | 1 | $2,000.00 | |
| Waverly-Belmont Elementary Pto | 2 | $2,000.00 | |
| Barnett, Sierra ↺ donor $250.00 | 1 | $2,000.00 | |
| Southeast Egg Hunt & Festival Event | 2 | $2,000.00 | |
| PCS Marketing Group, LLC | 1 | $1,237.33 | |
| Naacp TN | 1 | $1,025.00 | |
| Davidson County Democratic Women Gwen McFarland ↺ donor $250.00 | 2 | $1,000.00 | |
| Greenways for Nashville | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Fuerza Democrats Tennessee | 2 | $1,000.00 | |
| Central Labor Council | 2 | $1,000.00 | |
| McCabe Park Little League | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Whitsitt Elementary | 2 | $1,000.00 | |
| Montgomery County Democratic Party | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Thirty Voices | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Nashville Rowing Club | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Juneteenth615 - Fellavision Foundation | 1 | $1,000.00 | |
| Belmont-Hillsboro Neighbors, Inc. | 2 | $900.00 | |
| Hillsboro High School Baseball Boosters | 1 | $663.70 | |
| Everyaction, Inc. | 1 | $647.00 | |
| Knox County Democratic Party | 1 | $590.00 | |
| TN Black Caucus of State Legislators | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Davidson County Young Democrats | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Metro Outlaws Lacrosse | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Mayes for District 6 School Board | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Dixie for Congress | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Sylvan Park Paideia Design Center Pto | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Mitchell for Congress | 1 | $500.00 | |
| Streight, Elizabeth | 1 | $490.00 | |
| Marcella Pinilla Language Services | 1 | $375.00 | |
| Switchboard Public Benefit Corp. | 1 | $351.28 | |
| U.S. Postal Service | 2 | $328.00 | |
| West End Middle School | 1 | $300.00 | |
| Native American Indian Association of TN | 1 | $265.00 | |
| Little, Lonnie | 1 | $250.00 | |
| Clubs United for A Progressive Strategy | 1 | $250.00 | |
| Conexion Americas | 1 | $250.00 | |
| Cyanide Cider | 1 | $174.62 | |
| Tennessee Dept of Transportation | 1 | $167.00 | |
| Publix | 1 | $145.80 | |
| Vistaprint | 1 | $119.60 | |
| Tennessee Language Center | 1 | $115.00 | |
| Peachtree Grill | 1 | $98.74 | |
| Campaign Verify | 1 | $95.00 | |
| United States Postal Service | 1 | $78.00 | |
| Tempo | 1 | $63.17 | |
| American Press, Inc. | 1 | $62.18 | |
| FedEx Office | 1 | $21.84 |
Dates
| Payee | Location | Purpose | Amount | Date |
|---|
Loans
$72,000.00 in loan balances shown. The filings date all of it to this campaign. Later reports can repeat an outstanding loan, so each reconstructed lender balance is counted once below.
| Lender | Type | Received | Balance shown | Repaid | Outstanding |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self (John Ray Clemmons) | Candidate loan | — | $72,000.00 | $0.00 | $72,000.00 |
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 John Ray Clemmons’s itemized spending. Descriptions that don’t clearly fit a category are counted under Other rather than guessed at.
- Advertising & media $72,351 44%
- Contributions & donations $43,244 27%
- Consulting & professional services $23,569 14%
- Office & operations $16,614 10%
- Printing & mail $6,668 4%
- Fundraising & events $337 0.3%
- Other $146 0.1%
Loans
| Lender | Amount | Date Received | Outstanding | Repaid |
|---|
Each loan shows its balance as of the candidate's most recent filing; repayments since then appear when the next report is filed.
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 Amended | $195,429.96 | $111,477.75 | Source: Pre-General 2026 filing Report 131160 |
| Q3 2026 | $151,211.38 | $195,429.96 | Source: Q3 2026 filing Report 129281 |
| Pre-Primary 2026 Amended | $145,359.40 | $151,211.38 | Source: Pre-Primary 2026 filing Report 128960 |
| Q2 2026 | $140,802.06 | $145,359.40 | Source: Q2 2026 filing Report 127201 |
| Q1 2026 | $150,922.68 | $140,802.06 | Source: Q1 2026 filing Report 125713 |
| Year-End 2025 Amended | $91,958.55 | $150,922.68 | Source: Year-End 2025 filing Report 123950 |
| Mid-Year 2025 | $98,696.59 | $91,958.55 | Source: Mid-Year 2025 filing Report 121645 |