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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
Leader
Chuck Schumer
Mitch McConnell (retiring as leader)
Party
Democratic
Republican
Leader since
January 3, 2017
January 3, 2007
Leader's seat
New York
Kentucky
Current seats
48[b]
49
Seats needed
2 (or 1 + VP)[c]
Seats up
20
11
Party
Independent
Current seats
3[b]
Seats up
3
Map of the incumbents: Democratic incumbent running Democratic incumbent retiring Republican incumbent running Republican incumbent retiring Independent incumbent Independent incumbent retiring No electionRectangular inset (Nebraska): both seats up for election
Incumbent Majority Leader
Chuck Schumer
Democratic
The 2024 United States Senate elections are scheduled to be held on November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections. Thirty-three of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate will be contested in regular elections.[2] Senators are divided into three classes whose six-year terms are staggered so that a different class is elected every two years.[3] Class 1 senators will face election in 2024.[4]
As of March 2024, twenty-four senators (15 Democrats, 9 Republicans, and two independents) are seeking re-election in 2024.[citation needed] Two Senate Republicans (Mike Braun of Indiana and Mitt Romney of Utah), four Senate Democrats (Ben Cardin of Maryland, Tom Carper of Delaware, Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and Joe Manchin of West Virginia), and one Senate Independent (Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona) are not seeking re-election.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Democratic Sen. Laphonza Butler of California, who was appointed to her current seat in 2023, is not seeking election in 2024.[12]
Two special Senate elections will take place concurrently with the 2024 regular Senate elections. One of those two special elections will be held in California to fill the vacancy created by the death of longtime Senator Dianne Feinstein for the final two months of her unexpired term, and one will be held in Nebraska following Ben Sasse's 2023 resignation.[13][10][14]
Elections analysts consider the map for these Senate elections to be highly unfavorable to Democrats. Democrats will be defending 23 of the 33 Class 1 seats.[15] Three seats being defended by Democrats are in states won by Republican Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2020, while there are no seats in this class held by Republicans in states won by Democrat Joe Biden in 2020. Additionally, Kyrsten Sinema's first term is ending in Arizona, a state that Biden won by less than half a point in 2020; before the end of the 117th Congress, Sinema left the Democratic Party and became an independent. She later announced her retirement in March 2024.[16] In the two previous Senate election cycles that coincided with presidential elections (2016 and 2020), only one senator (Susan Collins in 2020) was elected in a state that was won by the presidential nominee of the opposite party.[17]
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^"The 2024 Senate elections are fast approaching. These are the seats up for re-election". USA Today. Archived from the original on February 16, 2024. Retrieved February 16, 2024.
^"US midterm election: What you need to know – DW – 11/07/2022". dw.com. Archived from the original on February 16, 2024. Retrieved February 16, 2024.
^Kilgore, Ed (January 29, 2023). "2024 Looks Very Dark for Senate Democrats". Intelligencer. Archived from the original on February 16, 2024. Retrieved February 16, 2024.
^Hakim-Shabazz, Abdul (September 22, 2022). "Braun to Run for Governor". Indy Politics. Archived from the original on September 22, 2022. Retrieved September 22, 2022.
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^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.
^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.
^Everett, Burgess (October 5, 2022). "Senate Dems face brutal 2024 map with at least eight undecided incumbents". Politico. Archived from the original on October 5, 2022. Retrieved October 5, 2022.
^Foran, Manu Raju, Clare (March 5, 2024). "Kyrsten Sinema announces she is retiring from the Senate | CNN Politics". CNN. Archived from the original on March 5, 2024. Retrieved March 5, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^"Georgia's Runoff is the Opening Battle of the 2024 Senate Cycle". Sabato's Crystal Ball. November 16, 2022. Archived from the original on November 16, 2022. Retrieved November 17, 2022.
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