2024 United States Senate elections

2024 United States Senate elections

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34 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate
51[a] seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Mitch McConnell
(retired as leader)
Chuck Schumer
Party Republican Democratic
Leader since January 3, 2007 January 3, 2017
Leader's seat Kentucky New York
Seats before 49 47[c]
Seats after 53 45[d]
Seat change Increase 4 Decrease 2
Popular vote 54,402,269[1] 55,934,606[1]
Percentage 47.7% 49.1%
Seats up 11 19
Races won 15 17

  Third party
 
Party Independent
Seats before 4[c]
Seats after 2[d]
Seat change Decrease 2
Popular vote 1,302,089[1]
Percentage 1.1%
Seats up 4
Races won 2

2024 United States Senate elections in California2024 United States Senate special election in Nebraska2024 United States Senate election in Arizona2024 United States Senate elections in California2024 United States Senate election in Connecticut2024 United States Senate election in Delaware2024 United States Senate election in Florida2024 United States Senate election in Hawaii2024 United States Senate election in Indiana2024 United States Senate election in Maine2024 United States Senate election in Maryland2024 United States Senate election in Massachusetts2024 United States Senate election in Michigan2024 United States Senate election in Minnesota2024 United States Senate election in Mississippi2024 United States Senate election in Missouri2024 United States Senate election in Montana2024 United States Senate election in Nebraska2024 United States Senate election in Nevada2024 United States Senate election in New Jersey2024 United States Senate election in New Mexico2024 United States Senate election in New York2024 United States Senate election in North Dakota2024 United States Senate election in Ohio2024 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania2024 United States Senate election in Rhode Island2024 United States Senate election in Tennessee2024 United States Senate election in Texas2024 United States Senate election in Utah2024 United States Senate election in Vermont2024 United States Senate election in Virginia2024 United States Senate election in Washington2024 United States Senate election in West Virginia2024 United States Senate election in Wisconsin2024 United States Senate election in Wyoming
Results of the elections:
     Democratic hold      Democratic gain
     Republican hold      Republican gain
     Independent hold
Rectangular inset (Nebraska): both seats up for election

Majority Leader before election

Chuck Schumer
Democratic

Elected Majority Leader

John Thune
Republican

The 2024 United States Senate elections were held on November 5, 2024. Regularly scheduled elections were held for 33 out of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate,[4][5] and special elections were held in California[6] and Nebraska.[7] U.S. senators are divided into three classes whose six-year terms are staggered so that a different class is elected every two years.[8] Class 1 senators faced election in 2024.[9] Republicans flipped four Democratic-held seats, regaining a Senate majority for the first time in four years, and the most gains for either party since 2014. Republicans successfully defended all of their own seats for the first time since 2014. This was the first time since 1980 that Republicans flipped control of a chamber of Congress in a presidential year.[10]

26 U.S. senators (15 Democrats, nine Republicans, and two independents) sought re-election in 2024,[11] while seven senators declined to seek re-election.[12] In addition, Sen. Laphonza Butler of California[13] and Sen. George Helmy of New Jersey[14] – each of whom had been appointed to their respective Senate seats – did not seek election in 2024. Concurrent with the 2024 regular Senate elections, two special Senate elections took place: one in California, to fill the final two months of Dianne Feinstein's term following her death in September 2023; and one in Nebraska, to fill the remaining two years of Ben Sasse's term following his resignation in January 2023.[15][16][17]

Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate by flipping an open seat in West Virginia; defeating Democratic incumbents in Montana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania; and retaining all the seats they had previously held. Republican gains were partly attributed to the coattails of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who won the 2024 presidential election. Democratic candidates were elected in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin, despite Trump having won those states. No Republican won in a state that Kamala Harris carried in the presidential election.


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  1. ^ a b c "2024 General Election 119th Senate Popular Vote and FEC Total Receipts by Party" Archived November 26, 2024, at the Wayback Machine, The Green Papers, November 22, 2024. Retrieved November 22, 2024.
  2. ^ 2023 Congressional Record, Vol. 169, Page S22 (January 3, 2023)
  3. ^ Svitek, Patrick. "Manchin changes party registration to independent, fueling speculation". Washington Post. Archived from the original on June 27, 2024. Retrieved June 1, 2024. Manchin joins three other members of the Senate who identify as independents: Senators Bernie Sanders (Vermont), Angus King (Maine) and Kyrsten Sinema (Arizona), who caucus with Democrats. A Manchin spokesperson said he will continue to caucus with the Democrats.
  4. ^ "Class I - Senators Whose Term of Service Expire in 2025". United States Senate. Archived from the original on March 8, 2018. Retrieved August 30, 2024. Class I terms run from the beginning of the 116th Congress on January 3, 2019, to the end of the 118th Congress on January 3, 2025. Senators in Class I were elected to office in the November 2018 general election, unless they took their seat through appointment or special election.
  5. ^ Kaufman, Anna; Mulroy, Clare (March 7, 2024). "The 2024 Senate elections are fast approaching. These are the seats up for re-election". USA Today. Archived from the original on February 16, 2024. Retrieved February 16, 2024.
  6. ^ "California Senate Results 2024". nbcnews.com. January 9, 2025.
  7. ^ "Nebraska Senate Results 2024". nbcnews.com. January 9, 2025.
  8. ^ "US midterm election: What you need to know – DW – 11/07/2022". dw.com. Archived from the original on February 16, 2024. Retrieved February 16, 2024.
  9. ^ Kilgore, Ed (January 29, 2023). "2024 Looks Very Dark for Senate Democrats". Intelligencer. Archived from the original on February 16, 2024. Retrieved February 16, 2024.
  10. ^ "GOP takes Senate majority for first time in 4 years with wins in West Virginia, Ohio and Montana". pbs.org. November 6, 2024.
  11. ^ "United States Senate elections, 2024". Ballotpedia. Archived from the original on May 22, 2024. Retrieved June 12, 2024.
  12. ^ Knutson, Jacob (January 26, 2024). "Who isn't running for re-election in the House and Senate in 2024". axios.com.
  13. ^ Blaine, Kyle; Iyer, Kaanita (October 19, 2023). "Laphonza Butler says she will not seek Senate seat in 2024". cnn.com.
  14. ^ Jalonick, Mary Clare (September 10, 2024). "New Jersey Democrat George Helmy sworn in as replacement for Menendez in the Senate". whyy.org.
  15. ^ Everett, Burgess; Levine, Marianne (October 5, 2022). "Sasse expected to resign from Senate". Politico. Archived from the original on October 7, 2022. Retrieved October 6, 2022.
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  17. ^ Johnson, Ted (September 29, 2023). "Sen. Dianne Feinstein Dies: Groundbreaking California Democrat Was 90". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on September 29, 2023. Retrieved September 29, 2023.

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