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If Democrats lose control of the Senate to the Republicans this year, their path back to the majority would be difficult in the 2026 and 2028 election cycles.
In 2024 alone, that average was a slightly lesser 1.3 percentage points, while in the 2022 Senate races taken alone, Democrats ran an average of 1.3 points behind Joe Biden in their states.
Sen. Chuck Schumer was unanimously re-elected to serve another two years as the Senate Democratic leader Tuesday, ahead of the party officially losing control of the upper chamber in January.. In ...
The numbers refer to their Senate classes. All class 1 seats were contested in the November 2024 elections . In this Congress, class 1 means their term commenced in the current Congress, requiring re-election in 2030; class 2 means their term ends with this Congress, requiring re-election in 2026 ; and class 3 means their term began in the last ...
All 33 Class 2 Senate seats and two Class 3 seats are up for election in 2026; Class 2 currently consists of 20 Republicans and 13 Democrats. If vacancies occur in Class 1 or Class 3 Senate seats, that state might require a special election to take place during the 119th Congress, possibly concurrently with the other 2026 Senate elections.
The Senate's structure gives states with smaller populations the same number of senators (two) as states with larger populations. Historian Daniel Wirls contends that this structure makes the Senate "non-democratic", [14] while Levitsky and Ziblatt argue that the Senate is America's most minoritarian (undemocratic) institution. [82]
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a news conference following the weekly Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on September 24, 2024 in Washington, DC.
[18] [14] [19] Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate with 53 seats by flipping the open seat in West Virginia and defeating Democratic incumbents in Montana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, while all Republican incumbents won re-election. This is the first time since 1980 that Republicans flipped control of either chamber of Congress in a ...