Election to the United States Senate in 1922

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On November 7, 1922 or September 11 in the state of Maine , one-third of the members of the United States Senate were elected. The election was part of the general election for the 68th United States Congress that year, in which all members of the House of Representatives were also elected. Since the election date was exactly in the middle of the four-year term of office of President Warren G. Harding (Midterm Election), the elections were partly also a vote on the previous policy of the 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 1922, 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, 36 of which were available for election.

Senate composition after the election

Total: 96

The results of the last elections on November 2, 1920 are in brackets. Changes during the legislative period that do not affect the elections as such are not taken into account in these figures. However, they are noted in the article on the 68th Congress in the section on the members of the Senate by the corresponding names of the senators.

In the election, the Democrats won a vacant seat in Indiana . They also took seven seats from the Republicans. On the other hand, the Republicans won two previously Democratic seats. However, they lost a seat in Minnesota to the Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota , which Henrik Shipstead took.

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