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
(retiring 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 53,912,395[1] 55,196,299[1]
Percentage 47.9% 49.0%
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 1,296,669[1]
Percentage 1.2%
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, as part of the 2024 United States elections. Regularly scheduled elections were held for 33 out of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate, plus one seat in a special election.[4][5] Senators are divided into 3 classes whose 6-year terms are staggered so that a different class is elected every 2 years.[6] Class 1 senators faced election in 2024.[7] Republicans flipped four Democratic-held seats, regaining a Senate majority for the first time since 2021.

There were 26 senators (15 Democrats, 9 Republicans, and 2 independents) seeking re-election in 2024.[8] There were also 2 Republicans (Mike Braun of Indiana and Mitt Romney of Utah), 3 Democrats (Ben Cardin of Maryland, Tom Carper of Delaware, Debbie Stabenow of Michigan), and 2 independents (Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia) not seeking re-election.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Laphonza Butler of California and George Helmy of New Jersey, Democrats who were appointed to their current seats in 2023 and 2024, respectively, were not seeking election in 2024.[16][17]

Concurrent with the 2024 regular Senate elections, 2 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.[18][14][19] Republicans won control of the US Senate with 53 seats, flipping seats in Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Montana, 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 presidential year.

This election had the highest number of senators elected in a state that was simultaneously won by the presidential nominee of the opposite party since 2012: Democrats Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Ruben Gallego of Arizona, Jacky Rosen of Nevada, and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan were elected in states carried by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, although the final results were significantly closer in the Republicans' favor than polling suggested.[20][21][22][23] This is also the first time since 2012 that Democrats won a Senate seat (both in open seats and as incumbents) in a state they did not carry in the concurrent presidential election. With Republicans flipping West Virginia, this is the first time since 2014 that Republicans flipped any open Democratic-held seat. Republicans successfully defended all their own seats for the first time since 2014.


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  1. ^ a b c "2024 General Election 119th Senate Popular Vote and FEC Total Receipts by Party", The Green Papers, November 20, 2024. Retrieved November 20, 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. 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. 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.
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  17. ^ Suter, Tara (August 16, 2024). "NJ governor appoints George Helmy to fill Menendez vacancy in Senate". The Hill. Retrieved August 16, 2024.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ 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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  21. ^ Vakil, Caroline (November 10, 2024). "Gallego defeats Lake in Arizona Senate race". The Hill. Retrieved November 10, 2024.
  22. ^ Vakil, Caroline (November 7, 2024). "Rosen keeps Nevada Senate seat in Democratic hands". The Hill. Retrieved November 8, 2024.
  23. ^ Main, Alison (November 6, 2024). "Democrat Elissa Slotkin will win Michigan Senate seat, CNN projects | CNN Politics". CNN. Retrieved November 8, 2024.

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