Election to the United States Senate in 1916

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On November 7, 1916, a third of the members of the US Senate were elected in the United States (in Maine already on September 11) . The election was part of the general election for the 65th United States Congress that year, which also elected all members of the House of Representatives. At the same time the presidential election of 1916 took place, in which the Democrat Woodrow Wilson was re-elected. 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 1916, the Class I senators stood for election. At that time, the United States consisted of 48 states. This results in a total of 96 senators, one third of whom were eligible for election.

Senate composition after the election

Total: 96

The Republicans won seven seats from the Democrats, while conversely the Democrats took five seats from the Republicans. That resulted in a net gain of two votes for the Republicans.

The results of the last elections on November 3, 1914 are in brackets. Changes during the legislative period that do not affect the elections themselves are not included in these figures. However, they are noted in the article on the 65th Congress in the section on Senate members by the corresponding names of the senators.

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