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[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 ...
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
Republicans gain three seats, guaranteeing them at least 52 out of 100 in the new upper chamber. ... Republicans last won a majority in the Senate in 2018. ... Andy Kim, 42, will become the first ...
The last time either party had a filibuster-proof majority was in early 2010 when Democrats had 60 seats in the Senate. Republicans came closest to matching that result when they had 59 of the ...
Republicans have been on offense in the 2024 election cycle, defending 11 seats compared with 23 for Democrats. Three-term incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, lost to GOP candidate Bernie Moreno
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.
As expected, Republicans will pick up an open seat in deep-red West Virginia, with NBC News projecting that Gov. Jim Justice has won the election to succeed retiring Democrat-turned-independent ...
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 ...