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1914 United States Senate elections
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November 3, 1914
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32 of the 96 seats in the United States Senate 49 seats needed for a majority
Majority party
Minority party
Leader
John W. Kern[a]
Jacob H. Gallinger[b]
Party
Democratic
Republican
Leader since
March 4, 1911
March 4, 1911
Leader's seat
Indiana
New Hampshire
Seats before
53
42
Seats after
56
39
Seat change
3
3
Seats up
17
16
Races won
20
13
Third party
Party
Progressive
Seats before
1
Seats after
1
Seat change
Seats up
0
Races won
0
A clickable map of the 1914 US Senate elections.
Results of the elections: Democratic gain Democratic hold Republican hold No election
Majority conference chairman before election
John W. Kern
Democratic
Elected Majority conference chairman
John W. Kern
Democratic
The 1914 United States Senate elections were held on November 3, 1914. These were the first regularly scheduled elections held following the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913, which required that all seats up for election be popularly elected, rather than chosen by their state legislatures. Thus, it was the first time that elections were generally scheduled on Election Day to coincide with the U.S. House elections. The 32 seats of Class 3 were contested in regular elections in 1914. Special elections were also held to fill vacancies. These elections occurred in the middle of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson's first term.
After a series of special elections, Democrats entered the election with a 53–42 majority, which they expanded to 56–39 after the elections.
This is one of five elections since 1914 in which the president's party gained Senate seats but lost House seats, something that would be repeated by Democrats in 1962 and 2022 and by Republicans in 1970 and 2018. This was the last time until 2022 that no incumbent senator lost reelection in a general election, although two lost in party primaries. This was also the first of three times in American history that the opposition party failed to flip any Senate seats, along with 1934 and 2022.[1]
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^Warnock Win Seals Perfect 2022 for Senators Seeking Re-election, Bloomberg Law, December 7, 2022
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