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The 2020 United States Senate elections were held on November 3, 2020, [1] with the 33 class 2 seats of the Senate contested in regular elections. [2] Of these, 21 were held by Republicans, and 12 by Democrats. The winners were elected to 6-year terms from January 3, 2021, to January 3, 2027. [3]
The 2022 United States Senate elections were held on November 8, 2022, concurrently with other midterm elections at the federal, state, and local levels. Regularly scheduled elections were held for 34 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate, the winners of which will serve 6-year terms beginning with the 118th United States Congress. 2 special elections were held to complete unexpired terms.
Thirty-five of the 100 seats in the United States Senate were up for election in 2020: all 33 seats of Senate Class II, and seats in Arizona and Georgia that were up for special elections. Republicans defended 23 seats, while Democrats defended 12 seats.
The GOP was on course to begin the 119th Congress with 55 Senate seats as of midnight ... Democrats were always underdogs to keep power in the Senate, having to defend 23 of the 34 seats up for ...
A senate term is six years with no term limit. Every two years a third of the seats are up for election. Some years also have a few special elections to fill vacancies. Each state has two senators elected in different years. There were 96 senators from 1912 to 1959 and 100 since then.
The 2024 United States Senate elections were held on November 5, 2024. Regularly scheduled elections were held for 33 out of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate, [4] [5] and special elections were held in California [6] and Nebraska. [7]
And while President Bill Clinton was comfortably re-elected in 1996, Republicans were still elected to the Senate in states Clinton won, like Arkansas, Oregon and Maine.
The List of United States Senate elections has been split into the following two parts for convenience: List of United States Senate elections (1788–1913)