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This is a list of close election results on the national level and within administrative divisions.It lists results that have been decided by a margin of less than 1 vote in 1,000 (a margin of less than 0.1 percentage points): single-winner elections where the winning candidate was less than 0.1% ahead of the second-placed candidate, as well as party-list elections where a party was less than ...
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 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 1914 midterm elections became the first year that all regular Senate elections were held in even-numbered years, coinciding with the House elections. The ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913 established the direct election of senators, instead of having them elected directly by state ...
1964 United States Senate election in New Jersey [1] Party Candidate Votes % Democratic: Harrison A. Williams (Incumbent) 1,677,515 : 61.91 : Republican: Bernard M. Shanley: 1,011,280 37.32 Conservative: Harold P. Poeschel 7,582 0.28 Socialist Workers: Lawrence Stewart 6,147 0.23 America First John Valgene Mahalchik 4,926 0.18 Socialist Labor ...
The Democratic Party holds a narrow majority in the U.S. Senate, but 34 out of 100 seats are up for election on Nov. 5, ... but that the race is still eighth in its top ten closest Senate races ...
In 1958, he was elected to the United States senate, unseating Republican Senator George W. Malone with 58% of the vote. Cannon was nearly defeated in his first re-election bid in 1964, holding off Republican Lieutenant Governor Paul Laxalt in one of the closest Senate elections ever. On election night, one of the networks actually projected ...
5 Closest races. 6 Alabama. 7 Alaska. 8 ... The 1980 United States Senate elections were held ... Nickles was the youngest Republican ever elected to the United ...