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The List of United States Senate elections has been split into the following two parts for convenience: List of United States Senate elections (1788–1913) List of United States Senate elections (1914–present) The following are lists of United States Senate elections by other criteria: List of United States Senate election results by region
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress. Senators have been directly elected by state-wide popular vote since the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913. A senate term is six years with no term limit. Every two years a third of the seats are up for election.
The following table shows regularly-scheduled United States Senate elections by state by year. The table does not include appointments or special elections , though it does include elections that occurred upon a state delegation's admission or readmission to the Senate.
Chair of the Senate Republican Policy Committee: Joni Ernst: IA: January 3, 2023: Vice Chair of the Senate Republican Conference: Shelley Moore Capito: WV: January 3, 2023: Chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee: Steve Daines: MT: January 3, 2023: Chair of the Senate Republican Steering Committee Mike Lee: UT: January 3, 2015 ...
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday broke the record by casting the most tie-breaking votes in the Senate in U.S. history. She has now broken 32 ties, beating the previous ...
After the election of the founding members of the U.S. Senate in 1788, the Senate was divided into three groups, or "classes" (Class 1, Class 2, and Class 3) to stagger the six-year terms of its members. Per Article I, Section 3, Clause 2 of the Constitution, the founding members of Class 1 would serve two years, Class 2 four years, and Class 3 ...
The senator in each state with the longer time in office is known as the senior senator, while the other is the junior senator. For example, majority leader Chuck Schumer is the senior senator from New York, having served in the senate since 1999, while Kirsten Gillibrand is New York's junior senator, having served since 2009.
Columnist: Oklahoma lawmakers frowned upon Sen. Tom Woods' 'filth' remarks, but look at their voting records. Is a scapegoat hiding their own intolerances?