Tennessee

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Tennessee Democrats had little to celebrate on Tuesday. As expected, Mitt Romney claimed the state’s 11 electoral votes, while Senator Bob Corker, a Republican, trounced the Democratic challenger, Mark Clayton, retaining his seat.

Republicans also managed to hold onto the Tea Party-infused gains they made in 2010 in the House of Representatives and the State Capitol.

Other Republicans that The Associated Press declared to have won were Chuck Fleischmann of the Third District, Stephen Fincher of the Eighth District, Marsha Blackburn of the Seventh District, Phil Roe of the First District, Diane Black of the Sixth District and John J. Duncan Jr. of the Second District.

Two Democrats, Jim Cooper of the Fifth District and Steve Cohen of the Ninth District, won re-election.

The race that generated the most excitement was in the Fourth District, where Representative Scott DesJarlais, a staunchly conservative doctor who opposes abortion, was caught up in a late-breaking scandal. In October, a transcript of a phone call between Mr. DesJarlais and a patient with whom he had an affair while he was married appeared to show that he had pressured the woman to have an abortion.

After the revelation, the state’s largest and most senior conservative group, the Tennessee Conservative Union, has called for Mr. DesJarlais to resign. And Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog group, filed a complaint saying that the congressman had violated Tennessee law by having sex with a patient.

But his long-shot Democratic competitor, State Senator Eric Stewart, was unable to turn the affair to his advantage, despite late polling that injected optimism into his campaign headquarters, and Mr. DesJarlais coasted to victory.