2018 United States Senate elections

Elections happened on November 6, 2018 to elect 35 class 1 members to the United States Senate. The winners were elected into a six-year term from January 3, 2019, to January 3, 2025.[3][4][5] Two special senate elections were also held on the same day: one in Minnesota after Al Franken resigned and Mississippi after Thad Cochran resigned.

2018 United States Senate elections
November 6, 2018
November 27 (Mississippi runoff)
35 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate
51 seats needed for a majority
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Mitch McConnell Chuck Schumer
Party Republican Democratic
Leader's seat Kentucky New York
Seats before 51 47
Seats after 53 45
Seat change Increase 2 Decrease 2
Popular vote 34,687,875 52,224,867[lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2]
Percentage 38.7% 58.2%
Swing Decrease 3.5% Increase 5.2%
Seats up 9 24
Races won 11 22
  Third party
 
Party Independent
Seats before 2
Seats after 2
Seat change Steady
Popular vote 808,370[lower-alpha 3]
Percentage 0.9%
Swing Increase 0.3%
Seats up 2
Races won 2
Results of the elections:
     Democratic gain      Republican gain
     Democratic hold      Republican hold
     Independent hold
     No election
Rectangular inset (Minn. & Miss.): both seats up for election
Majority Leader before election

Mitch McConnell
Republican

 Elected Majority Leader

Mitch McConnell
Republican

List of elections

Regular elections

Special elections
  • 2018 United States Senate special election in Minnesota
  • 2018 United States Senate special election in Mississippi

Notes
  1. Total of official results for Democratic candidates.
  2. Both general election candidates in California were members of the Democratic Party, having won the top two positions in the nonpartisan blanket primary (established by the 2010 California Proposition 14), so all 11.1 million votes in California were counted for Democrats, as tabulated by the Clerk of the House.[1][2] In 2012, the last time a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate appeared on the ballot in California, 12.6 million votes were cast, of which 4.7 million, or 38%, were cast for the Republican candidate.
  3. Total of official results for candidates labeled "Independent".

References
  1. Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives (2019-02-28). "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 6, 2018" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 57.
  2. Blake, Aaron (November 7, 2018). "Some Democrats are complaining about the 'Senate popular vote.' It's still not a thing". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 7, 2018.
  3. Panetta, Ruobing Su, Grace (March 11, 2020). "All of the important primary, convention, and debate dates you need to know for the 2020 presidential election". Business Insider.
  4. Flom, Peter (December 16, 2019). "Senate races 2020 — December outlook". Medium.
  5. "U.S. Senate Seats up for Reelection in 2020 - Worldpress.org". worldpress.org. Archived from the original on 2020-12-19. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.