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The United States Senate consists of 100 members, two from each of the 50 states. This list includes all senators serving in the 119th United States Congress.
During most of that period Senate Democrats earned a larger share of Senate seats than their share of the national House vote. Since filibuster rules were revised in 1975, the Democratic Party earned filibuster-proof supermajorities three times after the 1974 , 1976 and 2008 Senate elections.
The actual division was originally performed by the Senate of the 1st Congress in May 1789 by lot. [1] Whenever a new state subsequently joined the union, its two Senate seats were assigned to two different classes by a random draw, while keeping the three classes as close to the same number as possible. [2]
The Senate, or upper chamber, has 100 seats — two per state. Of these, 34 are up for election in 2024. Each senator serves a six-year term for their respective state.
The Democratic Party holds a narrow majority in the U.S. Senate, but 34 out of 100 seats are up for ... Time reports that the high number of independent voters in the state will likely be the ...
There have been a total of 252 senators appointed to the United States Senate since the 1913 ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment, including 205 appointments made before the next scheduled or special election and 47 appointments made of senators-elect who have already been elected to the seat.
The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2024. Simone Pathe, CNN. August 26, 2024 at 10:31 AM.
The 2024 United States Senate elections were held on November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections.Regularly scheduled elections were held for 33 out of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate, plus one seat in a special election.