Election to the United States Senate in 1914

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Distribution of seats
  
A total of 96 seats

On November 3, 1914, one-third of the members of the United States Senate were elected in the United States . The election was part of the general election to the 64th United States Congress that year, which also elected all members of the House of Representatives. Since the election date was exactly in the middle of the first term of office of President Woodrow Wilson , the elections were in part also a vote on the previous policy of the Democratic President. Since the adoption of the 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913, all US senators in their respective states have been directly elected by the people of their state. Each state has 2 senators. Under the United States Constitution , US Senators are elected for six years. However, all members of the Senate are never elected at the same time. The election follows a scheme according to which a third of the senators are elected every two years at the same time as the election to the US House of Representatives. For this purpose, the Senate is divided into three classes , which determine the election year of the Senators. In 1914, the Class III senators stood for election. At that time, the United States consisted of 48 states. This results in a total of 96 senators, 34 of whom stood for election.

Senate composition after the election

Total: 96

The results of the last elections on November 5, 1912 are in brackets. Changes during the legislative period that do not affect the elections as such are not included in these figures. But are noted in the article on the 64th Congress in the section on the members of the Senate by the corresponding names of the senators.

Three seats previously held by the Republicans were won by the Democrats in the election. This affected the states of California , South Dakota and Wisconsin . There the Democrats James D. Phelan , Edwin S. Johnson and Paul O. Husting dissolved their Republican predecessors George Clement Perkins (renouncing the candidacy), Coe I. Crawford (no longer nominated) and Isaac Stephenson (also renouncing another candidacy) from. Senator Miles Poindexter, who was not eligible for election in 1914 and was previously a member of the Progressive Party , had meanwhile switched to the Republicans and is therefore listed in the overall statistics there.

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