36 of the 96 seats in the United States Senate 49 seats needed for a majority
Majority party
Minority party
Leader
Joseph Robinson
Charles McNary
Party
Democratic
Republican
Leader since
December 3, 1923
March 4, 1933
Leader's seat
Arkansas
Oregon
Seats before
60
35
Seats after
69
25
Seat change
9
10
Seats up
17
18
Races won
26
8
Third party
Fourth party
Party
Farmer–Labor
Progressive
Seats before
1
0
Seats after
1
1
Seat change
1
Seats up
1
0
Races won
1
1
Results of the elections: Democratic gain Democratic hold Republican hold Progressive gain Farmer–Labor hold No election
Majority Leader before election
Joseph Robinson
Democratic
Elected Majority Leader
Joseph Robinson
Democratic
The 1934 United States Senate elections were held in the middle of Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term. The 32 seats of Class 1 were contested in regular elections, and special elections were held to fill vacancies. During the Great Depression, voters strongly backed Roosevelt's New Deal and his allies in the Senate, with Democrats picking up a net of nine seats, giving them a supermajority (which required 64 seats, two-thirds of the total 96 seats in 1934).[1] Republicans later lost three more seats due to mid-term vacancies (one to Farmer-Labor and two to Democrats); however, a Democrat in Iowa died and the seat remained vacant until the next election. The Democrats entered the next election with a 70-22-2-1 majority.
This marked the first time that an incumbent president's party gained seats in both houses of Congress in midterm election cycles, followed by 1998 and 2002.[2] This was also the second of three times in American history that the opposition party failed to flip any Senate seats, alongside 1914 and 2022.
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^Arthur Krock (November 7, 1934). "Tide Sweeps Nation". New York Times. Retrieved March 16, 2014.
^"Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 6, 1934" (PDF). U.S. House of Reps, Office of the Clerk. Retrieved December 28, 2011.
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