Alan Greenblatt is a GOVERNING correspondent.
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Tennessee Republicans will control the legislature for the first time since Reconstruction. In perhaps the biggest surprise of the night in legislative voting, they have taken the state House with a 50-49 majority.
It is the GOP's first House majority since 1971, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports.
They also broke a tie in the state Senate, emerging with a 19-14 majority.
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