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There were two ballot items for the same Class 3 seat: a special election to fill the seat for the final weeks of the 117th United States Congress (ending on January 3, 2023), and a general election for a full term (beginning on the same day), starting in the 118th United States Congress.
The Senate is divided into three classes to stagger the terms of its members such that one-third of the Senate would be up for re-election every two years. Upon California's admission to the Union in 1850, the state was assigned a Class 1 seat and a Class 3 seat, first elected in 1849.
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.
California elects United States senators to class 1 and class 3. The state has been represented by 48 people in the Senate since it was admitted to the Union on September 9, 1850. Its U.S. senators are Democrats Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff. Dianne Feinstein was the state's longest serving senator, who served from 1992 until her death in 2023.
Schiff will be California's junior senator, joining Sen. Alex Padilla, who was appointed to the Senate in 2021 and elected to a full term in 2022. Padilla is also a Democrat. Padilla is also a ...
The United States Senate consists of 100 members, ... California Senate: Stanford University . Harvard Law School : December 8, 2024 [g] 2024 Class 1 Burbank:
Senator-elects Andy Kim, D-N.J., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif., will be sworn into the Senate about three weeks early on Monday. Democratic governors appoint incoming California, New Jersey senators 3 ...
Seven Democrats and one Republican are vying in the top-two primary March 5 to replace termed-out Democrat Steven Bradford in state Senate District 35 in South L.A. County.