36 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate 51 seats needed for a majority
Majority party
Minority party
Leader
George Mitchell
Bob Dole
Party
Democratic
Republican
Leader since
January 3, 1989
January 3, 1985
Leader's seat
Maine
Kansas
Seats before
57
43
Seats after
57
43
Seat change
Popular vote
40,589,727[1][a]
35,449,473[1][a]
Percentage
49.9%
43.6%
Seats up
21
15
Races won
21[a]
15
Results of the elections: Democratic gain Democratic hold Republican gain Republican hold No electionRectangular inset (Calif. & N. D.): both seats up for election
Majority Leader before election
George Mitchell
Democratic
Elected Majority Leader
George Mitchell
Democratic
The 1992 United States Senate elections, held November 3, 1992, were elections for the United States Senate. The 34 seats of Class 3 were contested in regular elections, along with special elections to fill vacancies. They coincided with Bill Clinton's victory in the presidential election. This was the first time since 1956 that the balance of the Senate remained the same.
Both parties swapped a pair of seats, resulting in no net change in the partisan breakdown, which had been at 57–43 since Democrats flipped a seat in Pennsylvania in a special election. Democratic victories over Republicans John F. Seymour in the special California race and Bob Kasten in Wisconsin were cancelled out by the defeats of Democrats Wyche Fowler in Georgia and Terry Sanford in North Carolina.
The election of four new Democratic women to the Senate was notable with it being referred to in the press as the "Year of the Woman". Due to a special election in California, both of California's Senate seats were up for election in 1992, and these seats were won by Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer. Thus, California became the first state to have elected women to occupy both of its Senate seats. Democrat Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois, became the first African-American woman in the United States Senate. As of 2023[update], this was the last election cycle in which Republicans won a Senate election in New York and Democrats in Kentucky.
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