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2018 United States Senate elections ← 2016 November 6, 2018 November 27 (Mississippi runoff) 2020 → ← 2017 (AL) 35 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate 51 seats needed for a majority Majority party Minority party Leader Mitch McConnell Chuck Schumer Party Republican Democratic Leader since January 3, 2007 January 3, 2017 Leader's seat Kentucky New York Seats before 51 47 Seats ...
In the elections, 34 of the 100 seats—all Class 3 Senate seats—were contested in regular elections; the winners served 6-year terms until January 3, 2023. Class 3 was last up for election in 2010 when Republicans won a net gain of 6 seats. In 2016, Democrats defended 10 seats, while Republicans defended 24 seats.
2020 United States Senate elections ← 2018 November 3, 2020 January 5, 2021 (Georgia runoffs) 2022 → 35 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate 51 [a] seats needed for a majority Majority party Minority party Leader Chuck Schumer Mitch McConnell Party Democratic Republican Leader since January 3, 2017 January 3, 2007 Leader's seat New York Kentucky Seats before 45 53 Seats after 48 ...
Democrats losing three or more 2024 seats will make it much harder to win back the Senate later in the decade than if they lose just one or two seats. Harris seeks to flip the script on fiscal ...
Gain: The party did not have the seat before. Consider for example the Democrats (D) in 1914: 36 sitting Democrats (D 1 to D 36) were not on election. 14 sitting Democrats (D 37 to D 50) were re-elected (D 50 had been appointed to fill a vacancy and is shown as an elected hold). 3 new Democrats (D 51 to D 53) held seats by replacing other ...
Tester, 68, has represented Montana in the Senate since 2006, when he flipped the seat blue for the first time since 1988. He has served on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, the Democratic ...
That changed in 2018 when Mike Espy, the secretary of agriculture under then-President Bill Clinton, garnered more than 46 percent of the vote in a special election for the seat and lost by 8 points.
Silver noted that ten of the seats Democrats defended were in states won by Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. [17] [18] Meanwhile, the Class I Senate seat in Nevada was the lone Republican-held seat up for election in a state that had been won by Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. [19]