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Senate Minority Whip: John Thune: SD: January 20, 2021 Party whip since January 3, 2019: Chair of the Senate Republican Conference: John Barrasso: WY: January 3, 2019: 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
Every two years a third of the seats are up for election. Some years also have a few special elections to fill vacancies. Each state has two senators elected in different years. There were 96 senators from 1912 to 1960 and 100 since then. The Senate has been dominated by Democrats (D) and Republicans (R) in the whole period.
Republicans defended 23 seats, while Democrats defended 12. [12] Each block represents one of the 100 Senate seats. "D#" is a Democratic senator, "I#" is an independent senator, and "R#" is a Republican senator. They are arranged so that the parties are separated, and a majority is clear by crossing the middle.
[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 Republicans retained all the seats they previously held. This is the first time since 1980 that Republicans flipped control of either chamber of Congress ...
In the Senate, Republicans briefly held the majority at the start; however, on January 20, 2021, three new Democratic senators – Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Alex Padilla of California – were sworn in, resulting in 50 seats held by Republicans, 48 seats held by Democrats, and two held by independents who caucus with the ...
Even if Democrats sweep every swing state contest (and oust Susan Collins in Maine), they can win at most 52 seats in the Senate. That includes both seats in North Carolina. If Republicans were to ...
Republicans have retaken control of the US Senate, after flipping seats in West Virginia, Ohio and Montana. The results guarantee the Republicans at least 52 out of 100 seats in the new chamber ...
During most of that period Senate Democrats earned a larger share of Senate seats than their share of the national House vote. Since filibuster rules were revised in 1975, the Democratic Party earned filibuster-proof supermajorities three times after the 1974, 1976 and 2008 Senate elections. The last time Republicans earned the same was in the ...