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There were two ballot items for the same Class 1 seat: a special election to fill the seat for the final month of the 118th United States Congress (ending on January 3, 2025), and a regular general election for a full term that began on January 3, 2025, in the 119th United States Congress.
Due to California's election rules, similar to the previous election for the other seat, there were two ballot items for the same seat: a general election, to elect a Class 1 senator to a full term beginning with the 119th United States Congress, to be sworn in on January 3, 2025; and a special election, to fill that seat for the final weeks of ...
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 .
This is California's first U.S. Senate race without an incumbent running since 2016, when Vice President Kamala Harris won the seat of retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer, who had served four terms ...
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 ...
In the 2024 election, Californians will be asked to vote for a new U.S. Senator for separate times. It could introduce a note of chaos into the competitive Senate primary, which already has a ...
This was the first open seat Senate election in California since 1992, when Boxer was first elected. [2] In the primary on June 7, 2016, California Attorney General Kamala Harris and U.S. Representative Loretta Sanchez, both Democrats, finished in first and second place, respectively, and contested the general election.
California may be America’s most populous and progressive state. Yet it hasn’t enjoyed — or endured, depending on your appetite for political drama — a truly competitive U.S. Senate ...