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4. Total. 100. Independent Sens. Angus King of Maine, Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Joe Manchin of West Virginia caucus with the Democratic Party; [1][2][3][4] independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona does not caucus with the Democrats, but is "formally aligned with the Democrats for committee purposes." [5]
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 ]
In the Senate, Republicans briefly held the majority at the start; however, on January 20, 2021, three new Democratic senators – Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Alex Padilla of California – were sworn in, resulting in 50 seats held by Republicans, 48 seats held by Democrats, and two held by independents who caucus with the ...
The 2024 United States Senate elections are scheduled to be held on November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections. Thirty-three of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate will be contested in regular elections. [3][4] Senators are divided into three classes whose six-year terms are staggered so that a different class is elected every ...
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 last time Republicans earned the same was in the ...
TBD in 2024. The 2026 United States Senate elections are scheduled to be held on November 3, 2026, with 33 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested in regular elections, the winners of which will serve 6-year terms in the United States Congress from January 3, 2027, to January 3, 2033. Senators are divided into 3 groups, or classes, whose ...
The 10 Senate seats most likely to flip in 2024. Simone Pathe, CNN. August 26, 2024 at 10:31 AM. If there was one sign this week of Vice President Kamala Harris’ place atop the Democratic ticket ...
Democrats won 2 Republican-held seats, defeating an incumbent in Nevada and winning the open seat in Arizona. This was the first time Republicans gained Class 1 Senate seats since 1994. The results for this election cycle were the only significant gains made by the Republicans in what was otherwise characterized as a "blue wave" election.