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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 1960 and 100 since then. The Senate has been dominated by Democrats (D) and Republicans (R) in the whole period.
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) List of United States Senate elections (1914–present) The following are lists of United States Senate elections by other criteria: List of United States Senate election results by region
The following table shows regularly-scheduled United States Senate elections by state by year. The table does not include appointments or special elections , though it does include elections that occurred upon a state delegation's admission or readmission to the Senate.
The last time either party had a filibuster-proof majority was in early 2010 when Democrats had 60 seats in the Senate. Republicans came closest to matching that result when they had 59 of the ...
[18] [14] [19] Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate with 53 seats by flipping the open seat in West Virginia and defeating Democratic incumbents in Montana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, while Republicans retained all the seats they previously held. This is the first time since 1980 that Republicans flipped control of either chamber of Congress ...
Chair of the Senate Republican Policy Committee: Shelley Moore Capito: WV: January 3, 2025: Vice Chair of the Senate Republican Conference: James Lankford: OK: January 3, 2025: Chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee: Tim Scott: SC: January 3, 2025: Chair of the Senate Republican Steering Committee Mike Lee: UT: January 3, 2015
It’s no wonder that my colleague Simone Pathe had only one Republican seat (Texas) on her most recent list of the 10 Senate seats most likely to flip this year, and that was at No. 10. Positive ...
The only times when both of a state's Senate seats are up for election in the same year are either when a new state joins the union (as mentioned above), or when there is a special election to fill a vacant seat. Special elections have no bearing on when the term for that seat ends, and a senator elected in a special election will serve the ...